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...grand opening. “Harvard, like the world at large,” Buck said, “has been a battle-ground between good and evil. Our better selves have cherished freedom...and have sought its advancement.” Lamont Library was not just one arm of a research institution, it was one arm of a greater mission: the search for truth, and the commitment to building a better world...
...activism of this seminal year, 1981 was just as remarkable for its setbacks.‘IT’S JUST NOT PREPPY’In many respects, 1981 seems more distant a past than just 25 years.In May 1981, two male undergraduates were assaulted for standing arm-in-arm at the Park Street T station. There were complaints from gay undergraduates who found menacing posters on their doors throughout the year, one of which reportedly said “Hitler was right: Gays should be exterminated.” And in February 1981, MIT fraternity Pi Lambda Phi organized...
...could say that well-known author Melissa E. Scott ’81 fell into science-fiction writing.Scott first encountered the genre after a gym-class incident that left her with a broken arm and a gig as a library monitor. “I’m not the world’s most coordinated human being,” she says. A precocious child who learned to read at three, Scott recounts becoming immersed in thrillers while at the library. “From then on, I was pretty much hooked,” Scott says. Scott...
...wasn't the spider that scared Miss Muffet--it was that stuff in her bowl. White, clumpy, sour, often runny, yogurt did not inspire children to plead with their mothers at the supermarket. Nor did it get much closer to American mouths than arm's length, from which those mothers could read the list of ingredients to be reminded that yogurt is animated by at least two types of live bacteria: Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus. Pudding, anyone? Aisle...
...Although he and Jackie IM several times a week and Dan says he would like to work on their relationship, one of the few times he remembers calling Jackie Mom to her face was four years ago at church. "She was at the altar praying, and I put my arm around her, and I called her Mom. I think she cried," he says. Jackie says she knew all along that it would be hard for Dan to call her Mom. "I realized that it was because of the loss of his own mom," she says, adding, "I don't know...