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...We’d do well to keep that in mind at Harvard this week, as the annual Take Back the Night events kick off. Take Back the Night, which began in the seventies, consists of candlelight vigils, rallies, and informational events aimed at promoting awareness of sexual crimes. This all sounds fine enough—preventing sexual violence is a laudable goal. The trouble is that much of the dialogue of events such as Take Back the Night ignores the fact that in many cases, preventing sexual violence hinges on sexual responsibility...
...least 10 states were forced to lock down or evacuate on Tuesday, some after discoveries of notes that alluded to the shootings and threatened worse violence and others after reports of suspicious activity. On Tuesday evening, thousands of Virginia Tech students and supporters gathered in a field for a candlelight vigil as universities around the country held their own memorial services...
...second address: www.hongkongharvard.com. Having landed its corner of the World Wide Web early last fall, the Kong Web site is a surreal vision of elegance and class. In place of shady clientele and garishly-lit tables are a handful of carefree twenty-somethings sipping scorpion bowls in soft candlelight. “It’s definitely sexy,” says Web designer Darrin F. Samaha, creator of the restaurant’s cyber identity. His firm, Blue Coda, counts the Harvard Square Business Association, Gino’s Salon on Holyoke Street, and the Expository Writing department among...
...garbage tip of old tyres, tins and broken-up asbestos sheeting; human waste fills a network of stinking open drains that regularly overflow during high tide. Kumar and his wife bring in about $80 a week; a relative cares for the children, who do their homework by candlelight. "We only eat meat once a week," he says, while cooking on a smoky outdoor hearth. "Sometimes all we have to eat is rice...
...bragging rights, displays of pride, latin mottos, and face painting. Head over to Annenberg; if you’re quadded, enjoy it and take pictures of all your friends who are in the gulag—er, Mather. Next year, you’ll need them for your candlelight vigil once they disappear off the face of the earth. At most colleges the person that you ultimately are shaped into is determined through long bouts of reflection and tempering the inner metal of your being in the fire of self-doubt. Luckily, Harvard spares you this. Instead...