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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Shuttle at Garden Street, and you can be in class in about 12 minutes after leaving your room. CVS is about 10 minutes away. Alternatively, there is a Rite Aid in Porter Square a few blocks from the Quad itself. And despite what River dwellers may insist when you want them to come visit you, the walk isn’t bad at all. In fact, on a nice day, it’s quite lovely—and just far enough to listen to two and a half songs on your iPod...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Housing Market Reviews: Currier House | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

...don’t mean to say that a number of our wealthy peers attempt to hide where they’re from, the schools they’ve gone to, or the things they’ve done in their lives. I merely mean that around Cambridge, they insist on taking the T because taxis are too expensive, avoid shopping at the Tannery because their budgets simply won’t allow, and ruminate deeply before dining out at any Square establishment more expensive than Café of India because, you know, it’s not really appropriate...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: Friends With Money | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...some in the crowd would insist that the refs played a large role in the Crimson’s lack of success late in the game. After the clock ran out, speculation buzzed, hinting that if a few controversial calls had gone Harvard’s way, perhaps the game would have turned out differently...

Author: By Molly E. Kelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Title Bid Ends with Loss to Princeton | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...mail, we may be more inclined to lie or distort if the lights are low than if the room were filled with sunshine. Perhaps the next time you - or your kids - sit down at the computer to chat or text, it's best to raise the blinds and insist that the person on the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Shady Deeds Are More Likely to Happen in the Dark | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...fair, Haiti has had far less experience with earthquakes, and therefore earthquake preparedness, than Chile has. (Before Jan. 12, the last major quake to hit Port-au-Prince was in 1751.) There will, of course, be the apologists who insist it's unfair to compare a basket case like Haiti, the western hemisphere's poorest country, with a showcase like Chile, which has Latin America's highest per capita GDP and is set to become the first South American member of the exclusive, Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Chile can do things right, Haiti defenders argue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile and Haiti: A Tale of Two Earthquakes | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

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