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...comprises an essential piece of any Harvard students’ daily wardrobe. For those who’ve stepped outside the boundaries of a typical Jansport backpack, the chosen bag represents not only one’s fashion conscientiousness, but also speaks a thousand words about individual personality. Whether it’s uptown chic or granola crunch, the bag carries a voice of its own, dictating one’s place in Harvard’s see and be scene. But isn’t it really what’s inside that counts? Read on, and decide...
...Algonquin ranks second to the Somerset. Family bloodlines are not as consequential as the corporate credit lines. Capitalism proves itself in the Algonquin to be the great equalizer—in the early ’80s, the club’s membership was predominantly WASP, but today its thousand members reflect the growing racial diversity of the city’s corporate population...
Ruquist says that third-year graduate students who serve as TAs in the humanities make between $10,000 and $12,000 a year--a full three thousand dollars less than the starting pay for Harvard...
...serious about preventing future Columbines, perhaps we should ask the Clinton administration to start enforcing gun laws already on the books. Buying a gun for a juvenile is a federal crime. Yet of the several thousand criminals who committed it, the Justice Department prosecuted five in 1997 and six in 1998. Bringing a gun to school is also a federal crime. Here again, though, of several thousand offenders the Justice Department prosecuted only five in 1997 and eight in 1998. All in all, a grand total of 17 federal and state laws were broken in the Columbine tragedy...
According to Johnson, all the best facilities combined can accommodate just a few thousand of those sick kids per day. So what happens to the rest? Many of those who can't stay home or go to work with a parent wind up with a helpful friend or relative. And while it's tough to sneak even mildly ill babies and toddlers into day care, every parent knows a little cough suppressant and Tylenol can work wonders for school-age children. Worst of all, thousands of older sick kids stay home alone...