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Apart from the addition of oral communication skills, the report rightfully recommends that the College find ways to incorporate writing and oral instruction into students’ education beyond the first year. Indeed, one of the most common complaints about Expos (after lack of consistency in workload, teaching quality and...
A few weeks later, my parents visited Harvard for freshman parents’ weekend. My mom, a big fan of pointless panels, attended one that was meant to discourage parents from expecting their students to get straight A’s. As she left on Sunday she recounted what she...
In the fall of 1993, as a high school senior, Tillman got into a more serious kind of trouble. Coming to the defense of a friend involved in a fight outside a pizza parlor, he beat his adversary so severely that he was eventually arrested and charged as a juvenile...
American car owners have a peculiar habit. When we walk out of a mall, blinking and dazed, and realize we've forgotten where we've parked, we scan the parking lot, keys in hand, and ask, "Where am I?" Where am I--because your car, in this country, is you...
As Mercedes-Benz has learned, comic glamour is deceptively difficult to execute. It must be sophisticated yet have a self-deprecating wit. Mercedes, a brand with impeccably aristocratic roots, has stumbled frequently in its attempts at humor, most recently in TV spots featuring a race to the airport and a...