Word: christmases
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The inboxes of Harvard first-years last week contained two mass e-mail messages about this holiday season. One, from the Freshman Dean's Office, reminded us that we are not allowed to light Hannukah menorahs anywhere in the dorms except at specially authorized Hillel candle-lighting ceremonies in common...
The no-menorahs rule is an extension of the fire prevention, no-candles policy applied to all Harvard housing. Yet, if you turn on a television or open up a family magazine in December, the newscasts and articles aren't warning people about the dangers of menorahs. Instead they are...
But singing the Hebrew blessings and screwing a flame-colored bulb into a plastic candelabrum sitting on my dresser, as Harvard advises, doesn't really complete the ritual for me. Some years, my family has packed a menorah and candles on overseas vacations because the practice of lighting it is...
I don't allege that the College is anti-Semitic. I simply think that it is too rigidly fixed in its ways--not a revelation to anyone. If Harvard is so concerned about fires, then both menorahs and Christmas trees should be banned from individual rooms. As matters stand, however...
Why is 160 minutes such a popular length for all the upcoming Holiday Oscar contenders? The Insider ran 160 minutes, and so do Anna and the King, The Hurricane, and The Talented Mr. Ripley? Why don't these studio heads realize how ridiculously long 2 hrs and 40 minutes is...