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Margaret M. Rossman ’06 an English concentrator in Mather House and a former deputy editorial chair, plans to bring her Midwest flare to the brutal brick walls of Harvard. Putting her tendency to overanalyze to good use, she will dissect the minutiae of Harvard life in “The Back Yard.” She expects to wittily skewer the painfully obvious on alternate Tuesdays...
...moment. What Hockney really wants to talk about lately is smoking. To his immense annoyance, the British government plans by 2008 to ban it in nearly all workplaces, in restaurants and even in pubs that serve food. A few weeks ago, leading me around his sturdy brick house in Bridlington, a British seaside resort town not far from where Hockney was born, he's steaming. "You know that Hitler didn't smoke?" he asks suddenly, as though daring me to disagree that this alone might explain der Fhrer's lust for world conquest. Last fall on British radio Hockney...
Last December, the Harvard Republican Club (HRC), of which I am a member, proved its unnecessary belligerence by electing a man with the subtlety of a falling brick to the post of presidency. I will not be mentioning his real name because there is no need to taint posterity—and by posterity I mean Google—with his folly forever; people deserve a second-chance, after all. But actions also have consequences, and so this is one. Let us call...
...growing up in Sadulpur, a small Rajasthani town in an area of thorn trees and sand dunes in western India, in a house built by his grandfather. The extended family of 20 lived on bare concrete floors, slept on rope beds and cooked on an open fire in the brick yard. "They didn't have any income," says Sushil Kumar Saraogi, 61, editor of the weekly Sadulpur Times. "They scraped by on what the father had managed to rescue. They were very poor." Shankar Lal Saraogi, 78, Mittal's uncle, adds: "They weren't considered a prestigious family. Very ordinary...
...student who has ever wondered how Mather House’s next-door, red-towered brick beauty evolved into the bustling community it is today should have his questions answered this spring. This house seminar, however, is not a simply the random creation of IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter, nor is the course an underhanded attempt to boost Dunster’s reputation and House pride. Instead, “Histories of Dunster House” is actually being offered as a celebration of the House’s 75th anniversary as a residential community...