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Harvard spent another quarter-million dollars to purchase 200 fiberboard "temporary housing units" from the Federal Public Housing Administration and erect them on any land they could find. Small communities of housing refugees sprang up near the Divinity and Business Schools on tennis courts and previously empty lawns...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Class of 1950 | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...such "serious" scenes, one dealing with transsexuality and one dealing with AIDS, are interposed within the generally lighthearted humor of the rest of the show. This further confuses the potentially serious social criticism with the entertainment component of a hypothetical society's exclusion of those bearing erect skyscrapers below the belt...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lympdick: Standing Tall | 5/5/2000 | See Source »

...Still, most plays on campus will probably never involve men and women dressed as men speaking at Hardonics Anonymous, a place for men to go to talk about the problems and issues related to having continually erect penises. Nor will most plays on campus feature talk shows showcasing the confrontation between an overly horny, comparatively undersexed disgruntled housewife with a husband working for a nuclear power plant with lines such as "I fucked a dog, so what?" Thus, Lympdick stands erect in the culture of the other formal, well-rehearsed and plot driven plays this semester...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lympdick: Standing Tall | 5/5/2000 | See Source »

...addition to the Knafel Center and the art museum, Davis says Harvard is currently working to build a dormitory in the Banks Street area near Mather House and erect a new building in the parking lot adjacent to Hammond Street north of the Science Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wage Campaign Will Not Hinder Harvard Growth | 5/3/2000 | See Source »

...began a small tree-planting operation in Nairobi in the late 1970s. Composed largely of women, her Green Belt Movement quickly spread throughout Kenya and beyond. Then she turned to politics, including an unsuccessful run for President and protests against reckless development. When President Daniel arap Moi wanted to erect a 62-story office tower in Uhuru (Freedom) Park, a vital public space, her band of mothers and grandmothers forced the dictator to back down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century Of Heroes | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

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