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...Stanislaw Kostka, where Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest murdered last year by security police, once preached and now lies buried. This time there was no violence. They marched for almost two hours until riot police blocked their progress. On Friday the Polish government expelled two American diplomats, William Harwood, a first secretary of the U.S. embassy in Warsaw, and David Hopper, the consul in Cracow. The diplomats, accused of participating in a protest outside Cracow, insisted they were merely observers. In retaliation, Washington expelled four Polish diplomats...
Before Puccini's La Rondine opened at the New York City Opera this season, all the signs pointed to a disaster. The work was little known, and had been dismissed by earlier generations as inconsequential. The intended conductor, C. William Harwood, died unexpectedly last April at the age of 36, and the lead soprano withdrew. During the dress rehearsal, Tenor Barry McCauley objected to Conductor Allesandro Siciliani's tempos and stormed off, while Siciliani threatened to take the next plane back to Italy. Peace was restored, but two hours before the curtain, a can of drain cleaner exploded...
Shortly after Spring Break. Ru Selle D. Harwood '84, a Mather House resident, died after jumping from the seventh floor of the Mather tower. Harwood/had been a member of the Women's Club in Mather, active in Harvard Student Agencies, and a clarinetist in the band...
Both John Neumann and Ru Selle Harwood's suicides have had a profound impact on the Harvard-Radcliffe community. As Ted Polich, a junior in Eliot House, has put it, their deaths have made almost everyone reflect upon what is most important to them. For Ted, a member of the Harvard football team who was laid up in Stillman Infirmary, as was I, the most central thing in his life is not the fierce competition for grades, but the love of his family and friends. Friends, from the legions I see streaming past my room into his he has many...
...John Neumann and Ru Selle Diana Harwood have left any legacy--and I believe they have left a very rich one--it is to keep our hearts and minds forever fixed on what is most important in this too often dark and turbulent world--qualities of compassion, the meaningful pursuit of excellence in the service of human needs, and great love. As we mourn their passing, we should be thankful for them. It was once written of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "Standing apart is one way of standing out." Let us hope that John and RuSelle's standing Loneliness...