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...ways to cope with this, but most people just overcompensate. The two most popular options are getting blackout and trying to hook up with busted girls and butter-bodies (see Bell Lap 1), or joining student groups that celebrate every stereotype you spent your high-school years trying to avoid (see every minority group on campus). No matter how much wisdom butter Harvard students rub on themselves, social interactions will be as insufficiently lubricated as the awkward snakebite-style handjobs you and your roommate exchanged last night. There’s a good solution to this, but Stillman Infirmary limits...
Unger’s desire to devote more time to sports has extended even into the realm of academics. A former engineering sciences concentrator, he has since switched to economics to avoid the time-consuming math and science courses—which include lengthy, mandatory labs—that come with the territory in engineering. Whenever it is that Unger’s baseball career comes to a close, he plans to enter the financial world, with investment banking and management as some possible career paths...
...aides to be privately interviewed about the controversy over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. Such private interviews do not need to be done under oath. "We will not go along with a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants," Bush said. "I proposed a reasonable way to avoid an impasse." He insisted that "there's no indication... that anybody did anything improper." The response from Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy was swift and uncompromising: "Testimony should be on the record and under oath...
...global market. “Total divestment” is little more than a pipedream because there will always be some link to a questionable company, no matter how tenuous.Given this reality, the best the University can do is to be as vigilant as possible in trying to avoid indirectly holding a critical mass of the stock of companies from which it has directly divested. In the present case, it is clear that Harvard holds such a critical mass. At the time that Harvard announced its divestment from PetroChina in 2005 and Sinopec, another oil company that does business...
...search engine for electronic databases of academic literature. The browser extension can also be used to ease the process of gaining access to fee-based online resources to which Harvard subscribes. By choosing to “Reload this page via Harvard access,” a user can avoid having to navigate through the many layers of Harvard’s E-Resources site. “Some people are savvy about E-Resources, but it’s a lot of cutting and pasting and this will do it for you automatically,” said Kathleen Donovan...