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...subject that comes up. Indeed, they sound like a well-rehearsed comedy act when describing the genesis of their play, which is loosely based on the 1971 black comedy “Harold and Maude,” Hal Ashby’s film that tells of the love affair between an elderly woman and a teenage boy. “This wouldn’t work if it was an older man and a younger girl. Social norms would be defied if that were the case,” co-writer and producer Farley T. Katz...
...wish, for the sake of literature in general, that every gifted writer had the clout required to get his or her work out there like Viswanathan did. So my reaction of disgust to the entire affair is not premised on jealousy, but injustice. The disillusionment comes not from plagiarism but from the blatant (mis)use of social power...
...day—by a seventeen-year-old, no less—and this type of success must necessarily be yoked to a high level of scrutiny, lest we cheapen true achievement. But treating Viswanathan with the same lack of judiciousness with which she herself treated McCafferty sinks this affair to a new low.Some have also chosen to draw broader conclusions from this situation by linking it to the dog-eat-dog, rat-racing, ladder-climbing, and corner-cutting mentality of Harvard students. Others have related it to the stressful nature of college admissions, and still others have blamed...
...their law after such a show of force, but who would have thought it would take four weeks of protests to bring them to their senses? So it wasn't a real victory, but at best a partial one, which has brought us back to the normal state of affairs." Judging by recent French history, the students' victory is likely to be partial for other reasons, too. The same combustible sequence of events that killed Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's contested youth job bill has played out in identical fashion twice before in the past decade. Huge protests confronted...
...back end of the weekend series, a second doubleheader against Brown, was rescheduled for this afternoon at 1 p.m. due to rain.HARVARD 8, BROWN 4Harvard capitalized on three Brown errors in a four-run eighth inning to take Saturday’s nightcap, a sloppy back-and-forth affair, by an 8-4 score.After senior Chris Mackey singled to start off the frame, Brown shortstop Dan Shapiro muffed a sure double-play ball off the bat of Lance Salsgiver before a dropped fly ball in center field loaded the bases with nobody out. After a strikeout of reliever Matt Brunnig...