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...Amidst the daily rough and tumble of College life, with its endless stream of contentious issues, tensions and conflicts, it's sometimes hard to remember that all of us--whether conservative or liberal student group, seemingly unreasonable administrator or demanding student--are all part of the same community. It's too bad that it takes a shocking event to make us remember that one collegiate fact...
...Amidst all the tumult, many wonder what inspired the Harvard students to pose for Playboy. For Keller and Johnson-Arbor, the publication's presence in the household prompted the decision...
...Emerald Forest" earned director John Boorman stripes as an adventurer with an eye for pictorial rapture and social turmoil. But in "Beyond Rangoon," an improbable tale of an American damsel-doctor caught amidst the genocidal Burmese civil war, Boorman "lapses into banal visual stereotyping," saysTIME's Richard Corliss. "The rebels are thin, winsome, saintly, while the nasty soldiers have bad skin and potbellies. And the film simply forfeits belief with its notion that Laura (played by Patricia Arquette), who stumbles through Burma like a girl in a monster movie after she's seen the giant ants, is a physician...
While the College has recently made much news in the tabloids with the acceptance and subsequent rejection of a killer and even more recently with the bizarre murder-suicide at Dunster House, an important administrative change has been hidden amidst the tumult. Over the course of the past few decades, the Harvard administration has succeeded in incrementally destroying the housing system. The houses are where we eat and sleep, where we make many of our closest friends, what we consider our little home within the sprawling academic empire around us. This year, the destruction has been completed; the decision...
...mother flew to Poland in January, she looked up at the aisle. A major earthquake had just struck Japan, and the news showed clips of survivors amidst damaged buildings. Her first reaction was one of empathy. She identified with their homelessness, their cold, their devastation and she felt their pain. It was second nature for her as she headed into the pit of evil...