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Rose, who didn’t dress in Harvard’s 31-21, come-from-behind victory over Dartmouth last Saturday, is fully recovered from his shoulder injury and practiced at full speed without pain on Wednesday. Rose is currently sixth in Division I-AA with a 152.9 pass efficiency rating...
...Boris G. Sumilovitch ‘03 dressed as a nerd for Halloween—pants high, shirt tucked in, sporting thick black glasses. 100% of the people that he met made some variant of a “Dude, you didn’t need to dress up to be a nerd!” joke. Sumilovitch noted that he should have anticipated that shit...
Halloween in particular forces us on a guilt trip in the aftermath of tragedy. We naturally feel repulsed by a holiday so wrapped in images of violence and evil. After all, the holiday encourages kids to dress up as monsters and assassins of all kinds; the distinctive killer of the Scream trilogy has a following of children as young as seven, and of course, time-honored classics like Jason and Freddy Krueger are always popular...
This ignores the latest twist on a now familiar argument: that unless we dress up in grotesque or silly frocks and ask people for junk food, the terrorists will have won. "Halloween is the only holiday we have left where people open their doors to strangers," says Lesley Pratt Bannatyne, author of Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History. "It's a holiday for kids, and there is no reason to take it away from them...
...with a laugh. Curtis, an actress from Los Angeles, has two sons, ages 10 and 12, and admits she is a tad trepidatious about the forthcoming holiday. "I told both my boys to stay away from the malls because Mommy is paranoid. And they are definitely not allowed to dress up like they're preparing for jihad. No ninjas, no turbans, no water guns, no play guns. And with all this crazy stuff in the mail, I'm laying down the law. Nothing powdery! No more Pixy Stix this year...