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...sharing a cab with one of the heads of Dean Witter, Gardner solves the biggest puzzle of the 80s—the Rubik’s cube—and scores the internship. But with no steady income, he and his son go from a shabby apartment to a shabbier hotel to an all-out homeless shelter, and times become really, well, unhappy. Not to worry, though. There’s no question as to how this one ends...
...towers to be built in the dense center of downtown. It will limit large-scale building citywide to an annual aggregate of 950,000 sq. ft., the equivalent of two or three medium-size office towers a year, and push the locus of that new development southward into a shabbier quarter. Most intriguing are the provisions that will halve the bulk of new buildings and essentially require that every new skyscraper have stepped setbacks, surface ornament and a decoratively tapered top. Barring an unlikely reversal at the final vote next month, modernism is about to be outlawed in San Francisco...
...general education proposals include eliminating the Foreign Cultures Core requirement in favor of a more general distributional requirement in the humanities and allowing undergraduates to complete two semesters of required of language study after their first year. This means that students could easily leave Cambridge with an even shabbier grasp of the language, history, and culture of the foreign country in which they choose to study, making it even more likely that they will take the path of least resistance and drink themselves through the semester...
...Harvard’s hockey programs, nationally competitive each year, receive even shabbier treatment from the university when it comes to essential facilities than do their counterparts at Princeton. And it’s not as if the Tigers are very good. The men won five games last year. Five! That’s fewer than Harvard won in the ECAC tournament alone. Princeton hasn’t been good since college hockey great Hobey Baker last laced his skates for the Tigers, and that...
...live there anymore. Over the course of my Harvard career, my—and, I suspect, many people’s—trips home have become progressively shorter and less frequent. With every trip, the clothes I’ve abandoned in my closet look shabbier and lonelier, and the books on my shelves more outgrown; with every trip, I am struck by the businesses that have closed in my hometown and by the new houses that loom, raw, over freshly-seeded lawns. I can no longer name the children who bicycle in wobbly circles in the street...