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...wake of student involvement in the more conventional anti-war street rallies this weekend, FM sought the reaction of Harvard “experts” to this bold new form of protest. And members of the Harvard College Democrats are not afraid to take a stance on the hard issues of today...
...impatience extended into the laboratory. Safety standards were lower in those days, and, in her eagerness to get results, Franklin often didn't bother with protective gear, even when working with radiation. Bold as she was in her work, however, Franklin was curiously standoffish with regard to the opposite sex. According to her biographer, Brenda Maddox, Franklin was still ignorant of the facts of life as late as her third year in college--this from a student of biochemistry...
...Europe. So it's too bad that London is the test case. Its public transit system was creaking and fragile and stretched to the limit - even before the 20,000 more daily riders expected this week. And Londoners themselves, from long experience, tend to be wryly pessimistic about bold attempts at social engineering. "The charge will simply shift congestion [elsewhere]," says Gary Jennings, a self-employed removal man. "Ken's a bit naive if he thinks this is going to sort out the congestion problems." Concludes Bernhard Oehry, a traffic consultant in Switzerland: "There's a reasonable chance...
...Wednesday, some poet-professors took the bold step of giving a reading at the Loeb Drama Center in support of “a non-military response to the crisis with Iraq.” Eschewing tatty anti-war sloganism for refined resistance, their message was still clear to the TV cameras and 150 people present. Looking slightly toward the heavens, Marquand Professor of English Peter M. Sacks declared: “I say this directly to the White House: we oppose....” There is a nobility in this sort of grandiosity that I think few students recognize...
...tipping point, as with almost any fashion, was its adoption by high-profile stylish women--in the fall of 2001. Fashion is a game in which alpha-dog celebrities stay ahead of middle-class consumers, often by mimicking inner-city teenagers and other transgressive subcultures. Madonna's bold use of classic Adidas roused a posse of A-list imitators ranging from Gwyneth Paltrow and Cameron Diaz to Pink. J. Lo made the pastel Juicy Couture velour sweat suit a must-have item, then started producing...