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...years ago, hundreds wept as the cheap, folksy Rockbottom bar shut its doors. Around the same time, the departure of Pacific Sunwear left yet another opening for something new and fresh; what we got instead was an utterly useless and offensively ostentatious Omega watch store. Gentrification has overrun countless college bars and eateries, forcing them increasingly out of our reach. The Grolier Poetry Book Shop—the oldest of its kind in the United States—was recently slated to close, though it seems to have retreated from the brink...
...wife and I have owned seven houses in five states since the mid-1950s, and we bought our present one six years ago. I have a drawerful of real estate papers as well as five years' worth of checks and statements, and I'd like to get rid of useless paper. --Don Stricker, Kansas City...
...condemn him. He may not be the perfect President. He has made mistakes. But no one else can truthfully say he could have done better than Bush did. Merridith Frediani Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. Time for a Third Party? The two-party system in the U.S. is particularly useless because each side tries to express issues from radically different viewpoints: conservative or liberal [Sept. 6]. A third party representing the middle would bring balance to American politics. Why do only half those eligible to vote turn out? Could it be because they feel neither party represents them? In Canada's June...
...with the recent launch of the revamped my.Harvard portal, students can shop courses, keep calendars, watch course videos and access Webmail all from the same page. Whereas the old portal was next to useless, the new one is next to indispensable. Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services (FASCS) and the iCommons team should be commended for their efforts in overseeing the creation of a tool that will make hectic life at Harvard a lot more manageable...
...important propaganda tool for a young theocracy struggling to justify an ongoing war and a harsh Islamic regime. Veterans who had risked life and limb to defend their country were hailed as living martyrs. But for many, such as Kashfia, hero status was not enough. "The injured felt useless, with no role in society," says Mahmoud Khosravivafa, president of the National Paralympic Committee and himself a disabled vet. "They still wanted to serve their country, so we offered them another arena: handicapped sports. If we can't stop people from becoming disabled, we can always improve their lives. Sport...