Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Radcliffe has thrown in the towel and ceded its land to Harvard, the admissions brochure, our diplomas and the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association will no longer be sporting its moniker. But those are the least of the changes in store; the biggie will hit when Radcliffe stops manufacturing all that other cool stuff with its name on it. True, Harvard regalia rules the Square, but girls and boys looking for some Radcliffe gear are not yet in trouble. The Harvard Shop on Mass. Ave stocks a Radcliffe kiddie T-shirt option, albeit somewhat hidden under piles of "Make...
Student groups participating include the National Champion Women's Hockey Team, the Chinese Students Association, the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Progressive Student Labor Movement, the Harvard Radcliffe Science Fiction Association, the Juggling Club, the South Asian Association, and many more. Pforzheimer, Kirkland, and Leverett House Committees will also be putting on events...
...light of its continuing illusion of "compromise," for the bill's supporter seems to believe that they have not taken a political stance at all but rather have joyously reconciled two chunks of their constituency. Tolerance for everyone. I urge all citizens in the Harvard cosmos to reject this fiction of compromise. Members of your student government a) have effectively disregarded the concerns of students dedicated to non-discrimination, denouncing them as a whiny fringe groups and b) flouted a policy that makes Harvard safe for minorities...
...narrative vigor of Rushdie's novel. On their arc toward pop immortality, Ormus and Vina must inevitably pass through London in the mid-'60s and Manhattan in the '70s, already over-storied places and times about which Rai (and Rushdie) can find little new or interesting to add. When fictionalized versions of Rudolf Nureyev and Andy Warhol start popping up, an inspired fiction dwindles toward gossip...
...WRITING CURE Sounds like fiction, but researchers say writing about stressful experiences can improve symptoms in rheumatoid arthritis and asthma patients. And though patients wrote only 20 minutes a day over three consecutive days, about half of them experienced positive effects that seemed to last for months. The study is more evidence that the mind plays an important role in chronic illnesses...