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...occupies a post of tremendous prominence and power at this University. His office is on the first floor of University Hall, next to the Dean of Harvard College’s. The Harvard Foundation provoked a student organization diaspora last year with the expansion of its offices in the basement of Thayer Hall. Counter ostensibly speaks for diversity on a campus where more than half of the students are not white. His inflammatory language constitutes a failure to live up to the expectations incumbent in his position...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg and Sahil K. Mahtani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Dr. Counter Must Apologize | 5/21/2007 | See Source »

...Like Donna and Larry Smith, both in their 50s, both career workers, both with HMOs. But when she got cancer and he had heart trouble, the bills mounted so fast that they had to sell their home and move to Denver into their daughter's basement. That humiliation saved them just enough money that they could spend the rest of their life savings on treatment and medication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sicko Is Socko | 5/19/2007 | See Source »

Under their proposal, a television signal would be received by a satellite dish on a dormitory roof, transmitted to a converter box in the basement, and then sent via existing electrical wires to individual rooms...

Author: By Victoria B. Kabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cable TV Could Come to Houses | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

...trying to force ourselves upon you, no matter how times you socked us in the nuts and dove for a blue phone panic button like it was the peak of the Aggro Crag. Though six out of seven days we fall asleep in the basement storage room of some anonymous Yard dormitory feeling like the boy who just placed third to two girls on Global Guts, it’s that seventh day when we wake up in UHS with one of our best buddies in the bed next to us that keeps us happy and sane...

Author: By Peter J. Martinez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Final Bell Lap: Reflections on Harvard | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...Balance-carrying an easel to a dinner party at David Brinkley's house, standing on a chair to show CO2 emissions heading off the charts. She wanted him to find that passion again. They were living in Virginia, and the Kodak slides were gathering dust in the basement. So he pulled them out, arranged them in the carousel and gave his first show with the images mostly backward and upside down. Tipper said, "Hey, Mr. Information Superhighway, they have computers now. Maybe you should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Temptation of Al Gore | 5/16/2007 | See Source »

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