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...Hide a Razr somewhere on your body as they drag you away. Possible areas of concealment include: between your butt cheeks or stuck to your chest with a piece of gum. 6) Bribery could always work: convince the proctor to let you use his or her cellphone. Ladies, bat your eyelashes, guys, flex those guns...or try to win them over with that $5.63 left on your BoardPlus. 7) Remember watching that movie about Helen Keller when you were in grade school? Think back to the lessons of Annie Sullivan and use sign language (don?...

Author: By Nicola C. Perlman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 WAYS TO CONTACT THE OUTSIDE WORLD IF HELD INCOMMUNICADO | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...offered a lyrical and inspiring look at life within a Karen Christian village (and the ongoing Karen insurrection), and of his own unlikely passage from guerrilla and waiter to Cambridge student. Even Amy Tan's last novel, Saving Fish From Drowning, is set in Burma, among American tourists who bat back and forth the arguments for and against boycotts. Thant Myint-U does not command the page as these others do, but he gives us both the savory details and the cruelties of colonialism, as well as a rare feel for palace intrigue. In the process, he suggests that isolation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alienated Nation | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

...about the different ways Congress can treat China? It’s “either scapegoat or Sputnik.” Want to understand subtleties of diplomatic theory? “Trying to do diplomacy without the threat of pain is like trying to play baseball without a bat.” Voila. —Abe J. Riesman ’08 is outgoing Comp Director and incoming Co-Chair. He firmly believes the world is flat, and that Harvard women are also flat...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Top Five Thomas Friedman-isms | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

...outset of the hearing, Sen. Carl Levin, who will take over the committee chairmanship in January, hit Gates with a loaded question right off the bat: "Do you believe that we are currently winning in Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gates's Candor Wins Over the Democrats | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

...over the course of the last two years, he has continuously delivered. Ryan played the leading role in bringing us the Lamont Café this fall after co-writing the bill that brought us a 24-hour Lamont. He went to bat for gender inclusiveness on our campus, finally getting gender identity added to the University’s nondiscrimination code. As one of only two students serving on the Task Force on General Education, he helped shape a new general education proposal to save future generations of Harvard students from the Core. He has staunchly defended student groups, earning...

Author: By Nworah B. Ayogu, Eric P. Lesser, and Annie R. Riley | Title: Petersen and Sundquist: Experience Fighting for Students | 12/1/2006 | See Source »

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