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Halloween lets us off easy, but it should not be underestimated--it serves a real function. Not surprisingly, Edgar Allen Poe, the patron saint of Halloween, captured the spirit of this enigmatic holiday best in one of his early poems: "Thy soul shall find itself alone/'Mid dark thoughts of the gray tomb-stone." I hope you all had a good...
Kovach also expressed his wish that Jiang will have gained insight from the protests: "The only real hope is that, in the course of his visit, he began to realize a little more clearly how it's possible for a leader to function in a society where people have a free voice...
...frosh hosts will have negative responses to these questions. Excluding workloads and the weather, there is perhaps no more popular topic about which Harvard students complain than class size and professors. Amidst the grumbling, only infrequently does anyone note that these so-called problems are much more a function of student, not Faculty, behavior...
...editor of the National Enquirer, Steve Coz '79 (that's right, a Harvard alum). His compatriots were a celebrity lawyer, Marty Singer, who represents the likes of Demi and Arnold, and a paparazzo, Russell Turiak, who was there to plead innocent to the death of Diana. And their collective function was to argue about Russell's rights of access, Steve's salubriousness in print and Marty's malignancy in the courts--essentially, questioning the worthiness of celebrity journalism in America...
...life. Never mind that a rehabilitated youth with a new lease on life is probably a fairer replacement for a death than another death. While the desire for eye-for-an-eye justice is understandable, acting on this desire is inexcusable in modern civil society. The primary function of America's legal system should not be to carry out vengeance. The legal system may never escape public opinion, but it should not subordinate dispensation of purposeful justice to the opinion of the masses...