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...otherwise informative article, "In 1800s, Living Was Far from Gracious," (Feb. 5) Gaston De Los Reyes praises President A. Lawrence Lowell for democraticizing Harvard's undergraduate housing policies by building the river houses. Lowell, says Mr. De Los Reyes, was "committed to ending the social chasm of the `Gold Coast' and the College housing shortage...
...crack, are dabbling in heroin instead, while chronic crack addicts are changing over to heroin because of its mellower high and cheaper cost. Among both groups, fear of HIV transmission has made snorting, rather than injection, the preferred method of ingestion. "The needle is out, man," says Stephan ("Boobie") Gaston, 40, of East Harlem, a 26-year abuser. "All they're doing is sniffing." Even so, the risks remain high. Heroin-related incidents jumped from 10,300 during a three-month period in 1991 to 13,400 during a comparable period in 1992, according to a Federal Drug Abuse Warning...
...major-league baseball: it's not the way it was growing up. Slowly but surely, this most memory-laden of sports, this pastoral isle in a world of flux, is being ripped from its traditional foundations. Watching his World Champion Blue Jays take batting practice, Toronto manager Cito Gaston mused about the eight free agents his team did not re-sign in the off-season, including future Hall of Famer Dave Winfield. "What disappoints me is all the guys who won't be there on opening day to get their World Series rings," Gaston said. "It's just the business...
Quite a rich story, The Phantom of the Opera. Gaston Leroux's 1911 novel about a deformed, love-sick masked man haunting the Paris Opera has inspired half a dozen movies, from Lon Chaney's silent classic to Brian De Palma's rock-'n'-roll Phantom of the Paradise. But Leroux's theme -- of ripe passions that can be spoken only in song -- suggests an apter venue than cinema. Mightn't The Phantom be the source for a passable Broadway-style musical...
...lied as to how happy they'd be, and they told the administration that miraculously diversity wouldn't be threatened. The Undergraduate Council shouldn't feel the obligation to pass a proposal if it will mean lobbying for that proposal based on a rhetoric of half truths and lies. Gaston de los Reyes...