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...write that last comment, Unger promptly shuts me up by draining a clean three pointer. Columbia comes right back down the court to stretch the lead back out to three. [Columbia 33, Harvard...
...write to respond to some of the conclusions presented in “Students Defect from Sciences” (news article, Feb. 7). The article makes many important points about sources of student dissatisfaction in the sciences, including large course sizes and an overly competitive environment. We are well aware of these problems. The new (as of 2006-07) Life Sciences concentrations are, as the article notes, one way of addressing some of these issues. In the smaller concentrations, each with a dedicated advising staff and more access to faculty, our goal is to provide an intellectual and human environment...
...book club completely free of interpersonal contact? Or Hillary Clinton, who surely deserves to somehow follow in her husband’s footsteps this year? The list goes on, full of individuals who are much more worthy than a woman who thinks it’s okay to write 700-page kiddie...
Four a.m. rolls around, and it’s finally time to write that thesis—or at least that thesis title. After sitting down at your computer, you open a blank document and carefully set down your pithy words. You stare at the screen for a while, only slightly distracted by imaginings of deep-fried foods and ice cream. You center a colon on the page but suddenly your eyes alight upon a web ad for a board game: Candyland. You see an article about the latest possibility for a Yard Fest performer: Jimmy Eat World. No more...
...another. For many of these years—specifically that era in which The Beatles were bigger than God—guitar-playing was in, and it was producing memorable songs. Nowadays we have canned bands like Nickelback and a slew of others who can’t even write their own music. Meanwhile, actual guitar gods are on the decline. In January of this year, Activision, Inc. announced that the “Guitar Hero” franchise had earned over a billion dollars in revenue in just 26 months. In 2007, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation...