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...tiny candle, Ian, who is usually seen late-night at the Spee doing interpretive dances, carefully scribed the names of every person in the room over and over and over. A makeshift assembly line emerged on the balcony while people compulsively ripped tiny scraps of paper into equal sizes, each annotated with a single name. A great heap of white bits was illuminated by the light of the candle while Harvard’s resident Daedalus rabble rolled up their starched white shirtsleeves and argued vehemently about the nuances of the game. The coolness of the crowd disintegrated rapidly...
...also its strength. It avoids cheap shots, even at a couple who model their wedding on Sean (P. Diddy) Combs' famous "white party" by having their guests dress up like Good Humor men. It treats the swank partygoers and the workers setting up the shrimp-cocktail bar with equal sympathy. Like Gatsby, The Hamptons shows how a summer place comes to represent and be changed by the dreams and appetites of the people who love and consume...
...HRDC finances nearly all student productions in the Loeb Drama Center, which is home to the ART, and the club prohibits production teams from soliciting outside funding in order to keep shows on equal financial footing...
Predictably, talk of racial profiling turns very nasty very quickly. No matter the venue, the debate revolves around the same set of slippery questions: Do differences in data equal racism? Or could it be that blacks actually drive more recklessly or, in the case of schools, behave worse? Perhaps race is just incidental, and gender or class is the overriding factor. "This is not a simple matter, where the numbers speak for themselves," says Samuel Walker, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. "In the past two years there have been five or six conferences...
Depression is the major risk factor. Very often you can ask if they are depressed, and they will tell you. An equal sign is the loss of pleasure in things that they used to enjoy. The person won't go to a movie when they used to enjoy movies or won't even read the newspaper when they used to do that every day. There are also physiological signs--somebody's sleep pattern being severely disturbed. Usually with older people, it's that they sleep much less. Some people stop eating. There's a loss of energy. People feel hopeless...