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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...distinct memory of him being such an impressive young man: polite, charming, deferential to adults. Just like what you wish all the little high school brats were like. She said all the teachers were fooled. When you have someone growing up to be a professional con artist, it's pretty hard for the Harrises to see through that. Parents of psychopaths never figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Explaining Columbine | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...modern reader. For example, catchy design can make a scholarly work more accessible. Recently, the Press reissued the John Harvard Library, a series of American writings originally printed in the 1970s. Stormy blue-grey portraits of individual authors appear on the covers of each edition. The portraits, by contemporary artist Robert Carter, add energy to the old writings. “It gives a new feeling to these figures that people have just seen in dusty gilded frames and old galleries,” Carter says about his work. Fisher agrees. “Have you ever seen an issue...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Pressing Situation for Books | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...with any Yardfest artist, the choice is bound to be contested. This comes down to the fact that there are two particularly vocal schools of thought when it comes to preferred musical taste on campus—and they don’t overlap...

Author: By James A. Mcfadden and Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Point/Counterpoint: Striking the Right Note | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...first group consists of the casual Harvard listener whose ideal Yardfest artist is very famous, with multiple songs playing on the radio and at parties. They are mainstream American music-listeners and make no apologies for it. Their most likely criticism of a Yardfest artist: “I haven’t heard of them...

Author: By James A. Mcfadden and Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Point/Counterpoint: Striking the Right Note | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...music connoisseur—well trained in navigating the backroads of Pandora and avoiding Kiss FM and iTunes’s top 100. Harvard party music is banal and grating to their ears, and they prefer underground creativity to mainstream chart success. Their most likely criticism of a Yardfest artist: “Other people have heard of them...

Author: By James A. Mcfadden and Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Point/Counterpoint: Striking the Right Note | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

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