Word: column
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever read this column over the past two years, you know that I haven't had trouble finding things to complain about. From peer pressure to drink underage to the demise of the power ballad, from impeachment-obsessed Republicans to single-ply toilet paper, I've tried to shed some light on our problems and hopefully spur people to action for the better...
...come as a surprise, then, that my final column is full of good news. I set out to look back over the last four years and judge whether Harvard had gotten better or worse in my time here. To my surprise, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that Harvard is in fact better than it was in September 1995--substantially better in many ways, with one large exception...
...poorly. Nonetheless, in a world where things are always rapidly changing, and often not for the better, it feels good to leave here knowing that the College is moving in the right direction. Geoffrey C. Upton '99 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. This is his final column...
...Write on them only what you want remembered." There is no final exam, just a wide blank page waiting before us. I only hope that I will remember, now and then, to review my notes. Dara Horn '99 is a literature concentrator in Eliot House. This is her final column...
Nobel laureate Brian Josephson was incensed. He had just read a column by physicist Robert Park poking fun at the work of a French biologist who maintains that the benefits of homeopathic medicine can be transmitted electronically. Josephson, who since winning the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics has developed an interest in fringe sciences, fired off an e-mail challenge to Park, who promptly responded. Their exchange could lead to the first rigorous test of one of the world's most widely practiced alternative therapies...