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...life. Nourished from an early age on the diet of my parents’ scientific humanism, I remember lying awake at night in terror of death: my own and the universe’s. Like sex, this state of fear and trembling had its latency period (there were about eight years there where I only thought about baseball...
...blip on our radar.” Despite this mishap, the Marshal elections are running smoothly. Sixty-one students are competing for 16 spots in the first round of elections, which closes tomorrow at midnight. The top 16 then enter the second round of elections, which will ultimately yield eight Class Marshals, who will be responsible for organizing events for seniors during Commencement and subsequent alumni gatherings. Potential Marshals said they were excited about the chance to remain involved with the Class of 2009 after graduation. Lumumba B. Seegars ’09, a potential Marshal from Dunster House, said...
...million worth of variable-rate bonds, has seen interest rates on some of its bonds quadruple in the past week, according to Bloomberg News. Princeton’s Controller Kenneth Molinaro told the News that the increase is costing the school about $8,000 per day. With nearly eight times as many variable-rate bonds issued, Harvard could potentially be losing significantly more. The rate increases at Princeton can be partially attributed to the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the investment bank that underwrote the bonds issued by the New Jersey university. Harvard refused to disclose the name of the firm...
...amount of stuff he consumed in the first place. Given that his nickname is Sustainable Dave, that wasn't too hard. "I'm a non-consumer to begin with," says Chameides. "After a month or two I became aware of just how little I was consuming." Through about eight months, Chameides reckons he's kept a little more than 30 lbs. of trash - most of which dates back to the first couple months of the year, before he got the hang of not taking out the trash. The average American, by contrast, would have passed...
...Andrew Tobias, Democratic Party Treasurer, gave a passionate speech that could have been a highlight of the convention. But when he said: “In just the last eight years, the Republicans have cut the value of the U.S. dollar almost in half,” my neck got another workout...