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...Like computers, the news itself was scarcer during our pre-CNN, pre-Web college years. The Crimson newsroom of our era was dominated by the AP machine, a chest-high teletype that pumped bulletins into our midst by stamping upper-case letters onto an endless, Kerouacian scroll. During the Iran hostage drama that dragged on for what seemed like half our time at Harvard, Jim Hershberg ’82 would hover over the machine through the night, awaiting some hopeful breakthrough or awful denouement. Occasionally the bell would ring to announce some report of special note—though...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg | Title: From Typewriters to T1 | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

...says Ryan R. Thoreson ’07, outgoing co-chair of today’s Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance, although he does admit to feeling intimidation around campus on account of his sexuality.Last April, a gay undergraduate was reportedly punched in the head and chest around campus after he confronted two local men who were shouting homophobic and anti-Semitic insults. Hundreds of students rallied in his support.“I feel like the administration in general operates with a cautious stance towards any social change, but at the same time, it doesn?...

Author: By John R. Macartney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As They Came Out, Students Faced Homophobia | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...first, but certainly not our last. I’m sure I tried desperately to understand what he was saying. Maybe I did, maybe I didn’t. Either way, with legs dangling over the sofa’s edge and my head resting against his chest, I knew of no place else I’d rather have been. And though it wasn’t clear to me then, he would undoubtedly have said the same.We live in an era in which a parent’s merely showing up to his or her child?...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PARTING SHOT: Little League, the New York Giants, and a Goodbye to My Biggest Fan | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...heat of the explosion "so you can't tell which limb belongs to which head." Every now and again, he will get a body bag with charred-black body parts, dismembered by massive explosions. Those are the remains of suicide bombers. "When you explode a bomb strapped to your chest," he says, "it tears up your body in a particular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Self-Inflicted Wounds | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

RESCUE ME FX, TUESDAYS, 10 P.M. E.T. Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary, below) is trying to explain to his daughter what happened to the soul of his son, killed by a drunken driver last season. "He's here," Gavin fumbles, pointing to his head and chest, "and here." She giggles: "That was really lame, Dad." The scene is moving--Gavin so badly wants to make her, and himself, believe--yet hilarious. This firefighter drama, in its third season, is a black-humored study of why men lie--to themselves, each other, God, their families and women (this season, including guest star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: 5 Television Series to Heat Up Your Summer | 6/2/2006 | See Source »

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