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While Harvard students can stay holed up in their dorms and watch lectures online, the cold appears to have had a greater effect on people whose jobs depend on foot traffic in the Square...
...long after 4 p.m. (I now get why people take cabs all the time, despite the fact that it’s twenty times as expensive.) As I arrived at the Silver Line shuttle stop just in time to see the crowded car drive away, I glanced at my watch, beginning to worry.4:40…4:45…4:50…I was in trouble, but I was optimistic when I got to the airport with a good forty minutes to go before takeoff. I even saw a fellow Coloradoan, a friend of mine whose flight...
...Gulf Coast that I saw was one where the wealthy slowly rebuild, while the poor (who overwhelmingly are racial minorities) watch helplessly from their makeshift FEMA trailers—their own solution to the housing crisis that still exists. This is a land where wealthy speculators purchase coastal land at upwards of one million dollars an acre, and where—just a few miles away—public housing recipients fend off efforts by local and state officials to dislodge them from their homes. This is a place where redeveloped casinos—opened only months after Katrina?...
...Economic logic might trump my own, but at least my thinking would make for good sport (and sports stories). In this era when much of college athletics has become more spectacle than sport, it’s nice to be confident that I’ll be able to watch the next crop of spectacular Harvard athletes hone their skills through four years of trials, and not just on the playing fields. Take, for instance, the case of Clifton Dawson, the Crimson’s most-hyped big-sport athlete in recent memory. The holder of every relevant Harvard rushing...
...which last year hit some $44 billion. More broadly, U.S. sanctions have long prevented American companies from dealing with Iran, but recently U.S. officials have been urging European and Asian banks to avoid involvement with Iran as well; the Treasury has also placed serveral large Iranian banks on U.S. watch lists of institutions suspected of supporting terrorism...