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Truth be told, the administration has little to fear. Everyone recognizes parents weekends for what they are: elaborate excuses for Harvard to spend 48 hours engaged in its favorite pastime. And yet, however many yards of red carpet the College manages to roll out, the greatest burden of showing off inevitably falls to the students. What, then, could happen on Sophomore Parents Weekend? Only the most faithless can believe that sophomores would not rise to the occasion. Having a full year more experience than the first-years, sophomores have at least as much to show for themselves; being a class...
Humming “Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to Harvard I go,” I eventually boarded my magic carpet bound for a whole new world. I had packed some Disney stuffed animals and photographs to brighten my dorm room, but I expected to leave the warmth and happiness of Disney World behind for the cold, cutthroat city of Cambridge. But after nearly three years here, I have come to the startling conclusion that Disney World and Harvard are eerily similar. Allow me to explain...
...illegal to grow the hemp used in them, which is imported. The global market for raw hemp is expanding. Foods are only a fraction of the hemp-product universe, which includes Mercedes door panels, Body Shop Body Butter, Armani place mats, and countless humbler items such as twine, carpet and diapers. These nonedibles would remain legal under the rule. But if the court doesn't intervene, investors may think twice before supporting a business associated with drugs...
...Palmer-Dixon, Walsh personally bought a halogen lamp to increase the lighting inside the building, and the Harvard operations staff laid down a carpet atop the courts, in addition to setting up the two cages...
Just one year ago, Benjamin Bratt was playing an accessory on Julia Roberts' red-carpet tour. Now he's commanding his own spotlight with a revelatory performance in Pinero. In this sordid, vibrant and true story, Bratt stars as Miguel Pinero, the Puerto Rican playwright, unrehabilitated ex-con, junkie and cautionary figure. In 1988, 14 years after founding Manhattan's Nuyorican Poets Cafe and gathering acclaim for his Tony-nominated play Short Eyes, Pinero died of cirrhosis...