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...Quit bragging. So you wrote six papers in 72 hours without sleeping or leaving Lamont or eating anything you didn't buy from a vending machine. It's over. Others are still carrying around the Miracle of Life [Sci 1B study guides], and hearing about your ordeal and/or your post exam shennanigans isn't making it any easier. Stop blabbering and give your exam-bound friends a foot...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Done With Exams? Well, Some of Us are Still "Laboring" | 5/11/2010 | See Source »

Friedman, who passed away in October 2008 after battling a rare and aggressive form of cancer, used his $3,000 from Make-A-Wish to buy electronics and games to help other kids deal with the boredom and loneliness of hospital stays. After realizing the success of his charity, the then-16 year old created the Mikey’s Way Foundation, a non-profit that organizes a similar initiative for hospitals in New York, Connecticut, and Boston...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Legacy Inspires Charity | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

...that’s not all. You should probably buy textbooks, which can cost hundreds of dollars each semester. You may also want some food to snack on when you’re churning out a paper at 2 a.m., and fortunately overpriced burritos from Harvard Square are always available to substitute the money you’re losing with a few extra pounds.  On that note, you may also want to look into a gym membership—it may be expensive, but you have to avoid that freshman fifteen, right...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, Alee Lockman, and Dixon McPhillips | Title: Why We Gave | 5/5/2010 | See Source »

...It’s bringing a lot more people into the community—a lot more people to go down Western Ave. to buy a piece of pizza, go to the dry cleaners, or to the car wash—so we’re creating activity in the area,” she said...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No More Allston Buys, Univ. Says | 4/28/2010 | See Source »

Responding to the economic crisis and ensuing political corruption that hit Argentina in 2001, the poor, unemployed citizens of Buenos Aires took to the streets to sell cardboard. Two years after the chaos, an informal publishing house called “Eloisa Cartonera” opened to buy cardboard from cardboard-pickers called “cartoneros,” and to create “libros cartoneros,” books made with cardboard covers. This movement was born out of economic necessity and creativity, showing that literature can help build community...

Author: By Alina Voronov, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Group Teaches Active Use of Literature | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

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