Word: forget
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...answer, of course, was sort of. Visits are infrequent, and reproaches regarding the infrequency of visits are plentiful. Although I love a lot of things about the House system, it does land us in these very insular little worlds, where we can eat, sleep, study, hang out, and basically forget about life outside the realm of our own key-card access. Add this to the startling revelation that Harvard students are very, very busy, and that in general, we probably don't make enough time for spontaneous, casual fun, and you have the little Harvard mini-tragedy of these "long...
...probably won't notice any butterflies in Puli this week. The little town in central Taiwan has long been known for its butterflies as well as its Buddhist temples, its scenery and its rice wine. If you could forget that Puli, along with the rest of Taiwan, sits directly atop the juncture of two great tectonic plates, the town would seem idyllic...
Last week the plates made it impossible to forget. At 1:47 on Tuesday morning, Taiwan was slammed by a 7.6-magnitude earthquake. Centered near Puli, the quake left nearly 2,000 dead and at least 100,000 homeless and toppled some 6,000 buildings. Relief agencies from around the world, including the U.S., Turkey and Russia, mobilized to help. In financial centers, stocks took a pounding of their own as investors fretted about what the shutdown of Taiwan's microchip industry would mean to the always jumpy electronics sector...
...Star Called Henry (Viking; 343 pages; $24.95), Roddy Doyle's new novel about the birth of the modern Irish nation, begins with the vivid miseries of its hero, young Henry Smart, who is named for a dead brother whom his grieving mother can't forget. The time is the turn of the century, a dreary hiatus between a past of colonial starvation and a future of war and revolution. Henry's father, a one-legged Dublin bully-boy who free-lances as the doorman at a brothel, can't support the family, so Henry runs wild, stealing from shopkeepers, sleeping...
...told you last week, our team of writers hit the Boston premiere and afterparty for The Minus Man hoping to find the "next big thing." Forget that. The movie was an unqualified disaster (see page 6). To clear the memory, I went to see The Sixth Sense again--surprise, surprise, it was sold out--so I settled for tickets to the Kevin Bacon scream-fest Stir of Echoes. I have no idea how this one slipped through the cracks. Without a doubt, it's the scariest thing I've seen since the old-time psycho-horror flicks (Exorcist, Psycho, Rosemary...