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...this week as a time for undergraduates to celebrate Harvard and each other, [I] should have objected to it, and tried to stop it. I tell you that your attitude argues for killing any celebration at all. There might be no house dinners, no Bandstand, no campus-wide cookout. There might be no dance. This is the mindset your harsh and accusing attitude creates. If you have ever wondered why more people do not give of themselves to make Harvard a better place, then you should look at your very visible efforts to vilify such people...
...Davenport, Iowa, Mayor Thom Hart held a cookout at his house: pork sandwiches, fruit and five different kinds of potato salad. During a press conference on the front lawn, Grechko started taking pictures of all the cameras that were focusing on him. Neighbors came by, and everyone had a good time. A young guy, in old jeans, a T shirt and long dark hair, was impressed. "It's like a rock concert," he said, which it wasn't. "You can feel the good vibes," which you could...
...need is substantial. Harvard holds embarrassingly few campus-wide social events, and many House-run activities, such as Quincy's fall cookout concert, exclude members of other Houses. Events too big for a single House just don't happen...
...education in the Cambridge schools. We host a picnic in the Harvard Yard for 2000 senior citizens every summer. Harvard students volunteer their services in Cambridge neighborhoods, I cooked a spaghetti dinner for the Harvard and Cambridge high school football teams. Harvard (thanks, Jack Reardon) put on a great cookout for 300 Cambridge high school athletes in return...
...make its own adjustments to maternity. And where fashion has not provided, fashion has been ignored. The racks still hold their share of flapping, color-blind muumuus that-depending on the relative age and condition of the wearer-proclaim either an imminent arrival, an imperative diet or a Tupperware cookout after sundown. Increasingly, though, women are working at their careers until very near delivery, and they need clothes to get the job done. "It seems as if every female lawyer in Washington was pregnant last year," says Billie Fischer, owner of three stores in the Lady Madonna chain, which grossed...