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...offices need to be in a student center, since organizations working away behind closed doors are not particularly related to a student center's mission of creating a common space for all students. Although Thayer basement is crowded with offices of diverse organizations, it's far from a common ground for undergraduates, and there is little reason to think that office space in a student center would be any different. Since office space does not contribute much to the social experience, it is would be wiser to separate this issue from impractical hopes for a student center...
...while perhaps office space could be found elsewhere, the supporters of a student center argue that only a dedicated building could provide a place for students to meet, relax and provide the common ground that so often seems lacking at Harvard. As appealing as a greater sense of community may be, a student center shows no promise of providing it. Loker Commons was built to fill this role, and equipped with most of the amenities that a proposed student center would boast--fast food, meeting space, a central location, e-mail terminals, games--but the idea of hanging...
Neither Loker nor the plans for a new center recognize that to function as a common ground a physical space must be integrated with the rhythms of the community it serves. Loker shows that we Harvard students do not want to go off to a special room or building to relax. Only during lunch does Loker have the feel of a bustling campus center where you chat with friends and classmates; the Fly-By system integrates the Memorial Hall basement into the habits and daily cycles of enough students to make it worth a visit. Without such an integration...
...Unfortunately for his dyed-in-the-wool conservative fans, that Dick Cheney has gone underground. And he?s unlikely to resurface anytime soon. In his place, a new candidate has emerged: This guy walks the middle ground, woos independents, and steers clear of explosive issues. It turns out you can teach old dogs new tricks: Just as Lieberman tailored his public pronoucements to suit his party?s fundraising agenda, Cheney pried himself away from long-held positions to help George W. Bush attract the critical swing votes - the majority of which must be lured from the middle ground sandwiched between...
...Indeed, if paving BR-163 goes ahead, the soybean exporters could become victims of their development plans by helping produce a drought. Through evaporation, the forest recycles 7 trillion tons of water annually from the ground back into the atmosphere?as much as 50% of all the moisture it receives from rainfall. A good portion of that water vapor is carried by air currents that bounce off the Andes and head southward to drop rain on farming regions in the southern states of Mato Grosso and Goi?s, both part of Brazil?s breadbasket. In other words, no Amazon forest...