So let’s sum it all up. Apart from some of the inherent problems with various events, which are not the tournament’s own fault, discussion of the Harvard tournament inevitably settles on its flaws and faults, not on its strengths. The strengths are the strengths of the community; the sense of seeing a large gathering of [...]
So Monday continues. After the Oratory final, I headed into Harvard Square to buy myself a new phone, since the old razr was clearly dead now, rendered brainless by continually confused internal software. It being around 3 years old, I was due for a relatively cheap phone anyway, in return for selling two more years [...]
First off; the first time around I posted these, I posted the versions with the full names listed; that wasn’t what I’d planned, since in the age of Google, that can leave a permanent stain on what should be a temporary decision. And as I make clear below, I don’t particularly blame even students even [...]
The final round check continues. NB, I’m getting emails about this series of posts, surprisingly to me — I wasn’t aware I had readers. I haven’t read them yet, explicitly because I want to finish this and my comments on it first. The emails may well explain and correct some omissions, but I’m building evidence [...]
All right, so apparently Food was the semis and Energy was the quarter finals topic, as A HALF DOZEN ANAL RETENTIVE EXTEMPERS felt the need to share with me last evening. Mea culpa! Carrying on with the increasingly disappointing source check, however: Speaker 3 Q. Is drug legalization in the US a viable strategy for [...]