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Lagging slightly behind the others remains, of course, the Kronauer Space. Despite the Kronauer's myriad positive qualities, the very name draws the occasional disdainful look from those involved in Harvard theater, and a look of blank incomprehension from the general student population. Given the clear correlation between a theater's name and its prestige, can we blame Carr for offering up the choice reward of $1,000 to the person who suggests the best name for the new theater? After all, that paltry $1,000 could decide more about the theater's fate than the millions already invested...

Author: By Bree Z. Tollinger, | Title: A Theater By Any Other Name | 9/21/2000 | See Source »

Such an opportunity occurred in the 85th minute when freshman forward Grayson Sugarman drove into the box and readied for a point-blank shot. However, Sugarman was taken down forcibly by a Terrier defender, and no penalty kick was awarded despite the apparent foul...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Soccer Runs Into Stanford, B.U. | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...fingers, chafed and bloated, can't grip a pen very well anymore. He is blind in his left eye and has blurry vision in his right, but Bruce, never a complainer, vows to complete the chore in the coming days. His mother Phyllis Moore pulls out a stack of blank greeting cards for him to choose from. "This one says, 'With special thoughts of you,' and has a cute teapot on it," she calmly tells her son as he sits on his well-worn living-room rocker. "This one has a little girl with flowers." He's not sure exactly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Stories: In Their Last Days On This Earth | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...have this message, "RATS", flash subliminally in the mind of the late Lawrence Harvey and persuade him to vote Republican in November. Not only Lawrence Harvey, but millions of previously normal Americans: Envision them on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November walking stiff-legged and blank-eyed, zombielike, to the polls, muttering, "RATS, RATS... DemocRATS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting By on a Diet of Rats | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

...welcomes its inaugural class of 80 students in October, Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va., will be the first college designed specifically for kids who have been schooled at home. "When I was a little kid, and my mom told people I was homeschooled, we'd get this blank look," says Janice Phillips, who will enter Patrick Henry as a sophomore. "Now everyone knows someone who's homeschooled. We have, quote unquote, arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Home Schoolers: From Home to Harvard | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

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