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During the course of our Harvard careers, one word is continually shot at us like a bullet from a rifle. Diversity, diversity, diversity. Harvard seeks to provide its students with the most diverse environment possible. This is ostensibly why the administration and many students continue to defend affirmative action in making admissions decisions. This, it seems, is also why Dean Harry Lewis decided to go forward with randomization. But has it all worked? Has Harvard succeeded in providing its students with the most diverse atmosphere possible? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Race relations and inter-communication on this campus...
...Peruvian government "not to go too far. Not thinking of the hostages' mental state may have an adverse effect." But such words of pathos seemed to hold sway neither over the police nor the rebels inside, who once again warned police away with a spray of gunfire. A bullet hit one of the carriers, but no injuries were reported; the commandos, defiant, returned for another march a half-hour later. Rebels, still holding 72 hostages, accuse police of deliberately trying to provoke a fight as an excuse to storm the compound. Though Peru has reaffirmed that hostage safety remains their...
Then, of course, the reality sank in. Bill Cosby, the father who works as an actor whose specialty is playing fathers, had lost a blood, not a visual, relation. And had lost him not to a plot turn but to a bullet. Still, the whole thing didn't quite compute for me. Gunfire was never a part of The Cosby Show. Roadside homicide didn't figure in. According to the same dramatic logic that ruled out rape on Gilligan's Island and domestic violence among the Brady Bunch, murder on Cosby just wasn't possible...
...remind me at 8 a.m. Inevitably over the last four months, I have learned some of the history of my dorm. Hollis dates back to the 18th century, when George Washington and his troops stayed here during the Revolution. My roommate and I have looked for any musket bullet-holes in our walls, but they must have been plastered over during the renovation...
...bright spot for Harvard came with only 2:08 remaining in the game. Off a pass across the blue line from Harvard senior Joe Craigen, senior defenseman Marco Ferrari ripped a bullet shot from the left point and netted his first career goal, cutting the Crimson deficit...