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...your or anyone else’s bed, most likely in lecture. You will subsist for the following six hours on Red Bull. Rinse. Repeat.   Dream: You’re sitting around a dinner table, eating caviar with Mankiw and Pinker, intelligently discussing the Prisoner??s Dilemma and its implications.   Predictions:  You’re that kid in section. You will be obnoxious and everyone will glare at you. Please be quiet. On the plus side, you’ll probably ace that final. Dream: The wind...

Author: By NORA A. TUFANO, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Dream Come True? | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...insufficient to simply label detainees “enemy combatants” and forget about issues of their legal status—in an conflict of undeterminable length such as the War on Terror, this is tantamount to renouncing all of a prisoner??s rights...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Less Bad, But Not Good | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...Maze, a long conversation between Sands and a priest, and the slow deterioration of Sands’ body. Within these three parts, the simplicity of the plot gains striking power from the horrifying images onscreen. Without warning, McQueen immediately throws the viewer into the depths of the prisoner??s “no wash” protest, portraying unwashed, unshaven men smearing their excrement on the walls of their cells. Lengthy, uneventful scenes evoke the empty hours the prisoners experience in jail—time wasted away in their disgusting dungeons of protest. McQueen’s attention...

Author: By Noël D. Barlow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hunger | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...unique tradition of seniors is to dress up as their theses when they go to Hillel, how meshugee (Yiddish: slang, crazy). If you have a prisoner??s suit or bright orange clothes, Peter N. Ganong ’09 could use your help, says one Adams Schmooze e-mail thread...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: Partying it up on Purim | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...Congress on Wednesday, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for “British jobs for British workers.” Though the rhetoric of short-term political gain is attractive, it is definitely detrimental for everyone playing the game. Economic nationalism gives rise to a prisoner??s dilemma in which the worst possible outcome prevails. If the 1930s are any sign, this short-sighted approach leads directly to further contraction of economic activity. And we know what that is called...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Don't Buy American | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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