Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peninsula staff for an article that ridicules your politically correct sacred cows (and sacred professors). You write that you "are proud to be included on [Peninsula's] enemies list." Indeed, you should be: being considered an enemy implies being a worthy opponent. I, for one, am sorry that the author of the Peninsula article chose to put you on that list. After reading your so-called editorial, the only thing I feel for you is contempt...
...article itself reads like a pat on the back for racial harmony. The author, David A. Fahrenthold '00, started off with the lead, "Although last week's senior class marshal election yielded two black first marshals for only the second time in University history, the most remarkable aspect of that result seems to be that it is not remarkable at all." What follows is a litany of quotations from the first marshals, other marshals, others who ran for marshal, former black marshals, and Harvard administrators all saying that personality not race was the driving force behind the election of Allison...
...according to our readers, the disturbing part of the article was not the article itself, but the premise behind it. Sure, it's great that all those interviewed said they voted based on personality but the article, in its lead, seemed to expect something different. Recall that the author began by stating "Although last week's senior class marshal election yielded two black first marshals," and concluded essentially by saying that no one was bothered by that fact. But many readers wondered why The Crimson would have expected anything different...
...gene through cigarette smoking, however, it becomes damaged and cannot eliminate abnormal cells. As a result, cells with incorrect DNA divide and produce cancer. Although BPDE has long been viewed as a possible carcinogen, its role is now firmly established, said Moon-shon Tang, the study's lead author. "Until now we did not know (BPDE) binds with the spots on the P53 gene that are associated with lung cancer," he said. "In essence, our study provides a direct link between a defined cigarette-smoke carcinogen and human cancer mutations." Cigarette companies have maintained no firm correlation between cigarettes...
...disclaimer at the bottom of Peninsula's masthead notes, "All signed pieces express the views of the author...