Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Things fell apart for Harvard with two outs in the top of the third. Freshman pitcher Kathleen Brown looked like she might pitch out of a jam with a runner on second and nobody out, as the Rams sacrificed Heather Reinfinger to third and Brown induced a popup...
...MOMENTS THAT HAVE MATTERED most in Bob Dole's life, he has found himself alone. He was alone when he charged up a rocky hill to a German machine-gun nest, to be torn apart by an artillery shell. That experience took him to places where no one could help him. The surgeons could do only so much. His mother, who would have done anything for him, couldn't do anything when she came upon him hanging from the rafters of their garage by his shattered arm, trying to make it work again...
...much comfort in thinking that such behavior arises from some Darwinian maladaption. "Man has developed so rapidly," Loren Eiseley wrote, "that he has suffered a major loss of precise instinctive controls of behavior. So society must teach those controls. And when it does not, then the human arrangement breaks apart." In the Leopold-Loeb case in 1924, Clarence Darrow argued essentially that crime (including the murder of 14-year-old Bobby Frank) was to be understood as a disease. A banal defense, but Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb got off with their lives...
...Again, throughout the trial sequence, Jimmy appears as a victim of the system, possessing an innocence that his wanton actions do not betray. His distinguishing feature is a yearning for total anarchic freedom, a desire that is stymied by the government of Mahagonny. After his execution the city falls apart; its citizens' total freedom has intensified their ideological differences, and the center cannot hold...
...Provide students of color with a Third World Center. Perhaps if students of color know there will be a place where they can gather and discuss issues of particular interest to them, they will be more willing to live apart from one another. I should also note that although this letter refers almost exclusively to black students, I feel that much of what I have said applies to other students of color as well. However, I would feel more comfortable if they spoke for themselves...