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Early in Yu Hua's novel Brothers, young Baldy Li sticks his head into a hole in a public toilet and hovers inches above the putrid waste below, all for a glimpse of naked female bottoms on the far side of the partition. For the next 600-plus pages of this satire of modern China, the reader is suspended in similar fashion - curious but teetering dangerously close to the muck...
Watch out, Harvard! The neighborhood residents are going to TP the gaping hole you call the first science complex...
...call of our Commander-in-Chief and take arms against custodial layoffs, Allston resident oppression, the lack of fresh orchids in the Faculty Club bathrooms, the Harvard Men’s Basketball season, and other activities detrimental to Hope. 1. Harvard must begin with its most shovel-ready projects: holes. For example, with China’s increasing prominence in global commerce, Harvard could benefit from having the only hole that would pass through the center of the earth to China. This measure would greatly boost Harvard’s primary source of income: Asian tourists. Additional diggers could make...
After pulling off a dramatic 22-point comeback Friday night in order to ensure victory, the Harvard women’s basketball team knew that it could not afford to fall into the same hole against Penn on Saturday night. The Crimson (15-8, 7-2 Ivy) came out strong and finished even stronger on both ends of the court against the Quakers (6-17, 3-6 Ivy), taking the motivation from its last game and jumping out to what was as high as a 21-point lead in the second half. When the final buzzer sounded, Harvard came...
...victory, only to fall, 74-68, in a double-overtime thriller. He scored 18 of the team’s final 20 points in regulation and both overtimes, en route to a career-high 33 in the losing effort. Every time against the Tigers, he seems to find a hole and exploit it. “They were really worried about our shooters,” Housman said. “We were really limited in our three-pointers, and that means they were definitely spreading it out to our shooters. So that leaves lanes for people like...