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What a marvelous gift for our conservative, outspoken defense secretary. Harvard’s refusal to allow ROTC units to operate on campus has long been a burr under the military’s saddle, but the Solomon Amendment gives Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld the leverage to remove...
Kieran, 19, is even less daunted. Over Cokes at the same restaurant, different day, he doesn't come off as egotistical or spoiled, just brash. Burr Steers, who directed Igby, in which Kieran stars with Sarandon, likes to recount how he bagged the part: "Kieran comes skipping in and takes one look at me and says, 'You look like s___.' That was it. I knew he was the kid." The incident wasn't a big deal to Kieran, who shares Rory's pale skin and heavy-lidded eyes, which are useful for expressing boredom. "He had rings under his eyes...
...Harvard experience.” Harvard’s controversial new policy for investigating sexual assault—a policy that will undoubtedly shape the undergraduate experience of more than a few women each year—is not mentioned. On page four, when Winthrop House Allston Burr Senior Tutor Courtney B. Lamberth reminds us that women face sexual assault, depression and eating disorders at rates disproportionate to those of their male classmates, the “Spotlight” writers are quick to note that this is so “not just at Harvard, but at many universities...
...pick the best Astaire-Rogers number? Robbins and Brooks had their favorites; Kracauer's reference is to "The Yam" from "Carefree," which is also the choice of Entertainment Weekly's Ty Burr. I love "Pick Yourself Up," another you-hate-me-now-but-when-we-dance-you'll-like me number, from "Swing Time." And I can't imagine a more beautiful expression of reluctant rapture than Ginger's in the "Cheek to Cheek" dance from "Top Hat." And not just the song (Berlin's finest) or the dance (one of Astaire's most brilliant). I'm thinking...
Cabot, Currier, Dunster, Kirkland and Lowell Houses all announce the appointment of new Allston Burr senior tutors...