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...credit activities that could not be offered in any other environment. With wide participation from faculty and student clubs, MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP) allows students to do lab work, learn topology, shoot a bow-and-arrow, weld aluminum and watch imported anime—literally everyday. Middlebury’s J-term includes extensive travel and service opportunities. At Harvard, an ideal J-term could open up the possibility of international travel, research and volunteer work. Student groups could also take advantage of January to plan ambitious activities that might otherwise be impossible to squeeze into...
Beyond the practical, though, there’s an unambiguous difference between Harvard and most of America that undergrads are woefully unable to deal with: the realm of everyday ideology and politics...
Maybe that sounds a little extreme fortelevision, but small moral concessions in everyday life don’t help our common goal of equality. Encouraging the endless battle between the sexes isn’t healthy—millions of Americans are now convinced that their average looks and even more average salaries will keep them from marrying the people of their dreams. Resentment of the opposite sex ensues...
...after you have these things…how you can experiment, create something new.” The followup to Vocalcity, finally released stateside, is full of words. Sung and spoken by members of both sexes, they sound like snippets of relationships—whispered nothings, awkward everyday moments, resigned pleas over the telephone—conjuring the feeling of being there without seeming one bit trite...
...coaches confront pressure by running away from it. Denver Nuggets coach Jeff Bzdelik, who's in the hot seat despite winning more games in the first half of this season than he did all of last year, does yoga. "Once you generate the relaxation response and the chain of everyday thought is broken, things will just flow," says Dr. Herbert Benson, a Harvard Medical School professor and the president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute in Boston. When you relax, relax. Ex--Orlando Magic coach Doc Rivers, canned this season after a 1-10 start, says his biggest mistake in Orlando...