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I remember my first encounter with Harvard: I was about five, opening Christmas presents. An overeager aunt of mine bough me a Peanuts sweatshirt. There was Snoopy, dressed in a Harvard sweater, leaning on a football, and holding a pennant. The banner read, "Rah."
The young man had reason to be wary. He had been busted several months earlier by the feds and was awaiting his sentence, having already pleaded guilty to a crime that was just as high-tech as his favorite nightclub: stealing credit reports from TRW Inc.'s computer system. Four...
My first encounter with Harvard Square was on a warm summer night in 1987. A friend and I, both still believing that the Square was a funky urban paradise, were walking along Dunster Street. Out of nowhere, a hyperactive skinhead ran up to us, punched me in the nose and...
Not, let me insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s., we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D...
Marian sightings have been recorded for centuries, though largely confined to Europe: Lourdes, France; Fatima, Portugal; Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Today, despite attempts by the Catholic Church to discourage them, reports of visions are on the rise in the U.S. The accounts range from the woman who saw the face...