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Left unfettered, Anthony Konieczka, 9, would happily thumb away at his Game Boy Advance or PlayStation2 from the minute he gets up to the moment he crawls into bed, 14 bleary-eyed hours later. Anthony's basement in Naperville, Ill., is stocked with traditional toys--board games, puzzles, art supplies--and as far as he's concerned, they're relics of Christmases past. His sister Michaely, 6, still likes dressing her Barbies. "But once she starts playing Game Boy," says their mom Scharmen, "it's hard to get her away...
Most Christians who visit the Holy Land go to see Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity. When they get there, some are surprised to be led not to a stable but to one of a series of basement grottoes where they are informed Christ was born. The Nativity Church may not be the best possible guide, since it was built well after the fact, circa 324, by Helena, mother of Constantine, the first Roman Emperor to become a Christian. Nonetheless, she was heeding strong oral traditions that seem to have prevailed in the region for many years, and the idea...
...pair. And what a pair they’ve been. Aleris and Caitlin turn out pages like nobody’s business, placing text, doing cutouts and sometimes drawing illustrations until late into the night. And when they take a break to throw impromptu dance parties in the basement, everyone watches. We’ll miss Aleris next year as she takes a break from 14 Plympton, but at least Caitlin will be around, regulating visual appeal in her new role as FM’s Creative Director. Call her the Muse...
...final club scene has been good for women at Harvard. Yet Menendez expresses a hint of disenchantment with the scene. “You can be into the scene and at the same time, as a female senior, be incredibly frustrated that you’re knocking on a basement door on a Saturday night,” she says...
...We’ve come back from the future to destroy your computer.” He is also a founding member of Audry DeSmith and the Elegant Touch, which opened for what Pasternack calls “this queer Palestinian Hawaiian hip-hop duo troupe in the basement of Cabot” during his sophomore year. Pasternack is a key player in the Environmental Action Committee and the Resource Efficiency Program, the group that waged this month’s campaign to bring renewable energy to Harvard...