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...school shooting of a 15-year-old boy to be a hate-crime, motivated by the victim’s sexuality. The boy, Lawrence King, recently came out as gay to his peers at his junior high school. A few weeks later, a classmate shot him dead...
...free, the event managed to attract more than 300 curious party people over the course of the night. Pre-gaming is an admittedly useful innovation. But the event had the surprising air of good, clean fun. Even certain cooler-than-thou upperclassmen types, who typically would not be caught dead partying on campus, were lured by the rave’s uniqueness. The Harvard party scene is littered with rap-fueled grind-fests in which dancing is merely a means to an end. It was thus refreshing to witness undergrads in the ArtSpace earnestly working it, with no ulterior motives...
Shields is both moved and baffled by the stubbornness with which his father, now 97, just refuses to die. As a meditation thereon he has written THE THING ABOUT LIFE IS THAT ONE DAY YOU'LL BE DEAD (Knopf; 225 pages), a double memoir-commonplace book in which he presents his and his father's life stories, lovingly encrusted with facts about aging and death (it turns out your soul doesn't weigh 21 grams after all, and your hair and nails do not keep growing postmortem) and quotations ("After 30, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps...
...torture. Government malfeasance. Crappy health care. Not to mention one young star who shouldn't be dead, Heath Ledger, and one who might've been, Owen Wilson. (He showed up to read an intro.) Surrounded by these dour subjects, Stewart did his best to keep the tone light. He alluded to the town's relief over the end of the writers' strike by saying, "Welcome to the make-up sex." He confided to the viewing audience what the crowd at the Kodak Theatre does during commercial breaks: "Mostly we sit here making catty remarks about how you look at home...
...precursor for launching a new war against the Shi'ite organization. "Mughniyah was killed in the context of an open and comprehensive war through which Israel is preparing for another war," Nasrallah said at a ceremony Friday marking the beginning of the annual "week of the resistance," in which dead Hizballah leaders are honored...