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...collapse yesterday of yet another Stable Wind Farm Trust. The failed institution, Magna-SWIFT, is the largest thus far, with over $90 billion in assets. Rumors also continued to swirl about the condition of the Houston Power House, one of the nation’s largest clearinghouses specializing in weather and power derivatives. Experts warned that a major clearinghouse failure could have devastating implications...
What is literature, in the end, but the art of rendering uncanny one’s own language, of not taking words for granted, of watching language undulate in slow motion through space? Nietzsche understood this. The quotidian life of any language ("What’s up?" "Nice weather!" "LOL") is naturally disenchanting. 99.99 percent of the words we speak show no trace of life. Clichés trickle from our zombie mouths. We speak a lot and say little. Literature re-enchants language; it fills its lungs with gasps. What are the pangs induced by good poetry...
...Black and White would suffer its first loss of the season against then-No. 2 Stanford. Faced with strong tailwinds and frigid weather, Radcliffe fell to the Cardinal by nearly 12 seconds in the varsity eight race. And though the Black and White took home the loss, the 2V boat’s strong performance—the crew finished 7.5 seconds ahead of Stanford in its race—reflected the team’s improvement over the course of the season...
Harvard extended its winning streak, traveling to Yale for the second time after the first scheduled contest was cancelled midway through the game due to bad weather...
...seniors did not even start out as a good bunch. Within the first two years your fascination with premarital sex, underage drinking, and transferring from the Quad was unsafe. But then you magnified your perversions with Facebook stalking, checking the weather of places you have no business going to, and then more Facebook stalking. (Oddly enough, never Myspace stalking. Why?) Worst of all, some of you have started blogs, an action on par with public masturbation...