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BELIEVE IT OR NOT, there are some existential tortures that I missed as a freshman: lottery hell, work-study hell, extracurricular hell. Next party you're at, pull some wise senior aside and get him or her to talk about it, if they dare. Otherwise, repeat your mantra, rub your lucky rabbit's foot, and keep a crucifix handy, and you probably will sail through freshman year unscathed. If not, don't say I didn't warn...
Certainly not a new thought, yet the administration of Harvard University often seems unaware of this wise and simple adage. The University rarely seems capable of more than fitful efforts at responding to the challenges posed by a rapidly changing educational environment. Last year was as fine an illustration as any of the slow and clumsy character of Harvard's decision-making, with three important faculty issues receiving sporadic amounts of effective attention...
...could say it was wise or unwise, and plenty of people said it was unwise. It was a question of what was least bad," Pusey says...
...imaginative directing of Serban, who returns this season to direct Sweettable at the Richelieu, the set by Michael Yeargan and the original, Chinese-tinted music by Elliot Goldenthal have combined for a perfect blend of the comically tongue-in-cheek, hip, innocent and wise...
...face the prospect of almost bottomless oil prices. Before last week's agreement, some experts were predicting a price of $6 per bbl. by the end of the year. Says Sanford Margoshes, who follows the industry for Shearson Lehman Brothers: "Producers have suffered exquisite pain, and pain makes one wise." Arnold Safer, an energy consultant based in Bethesda, Md., believes "it was a do-or-die situation in Geneva...