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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eminent quotability in small catch-phrases. It is easy for a politician, a screenwriter or a columnist to manipulate the poet's words for her own purposes. But the genius of Shakespeare lies not just in the elegance of his language but also in his sympathetic understanding of human nature and his psychological depth, all of which are best understood in whole sonnets, whole scenes and entire plays. So tomorrow (and tomorrow and tomorrow), pick up a copy of The Riverside Shakespeare, and read as you like it. Susannah B. Tobin '00 is a classics concentrator in Lowell House...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: 435 Candles | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

From across the street, a camera crew approaches the line. It's a reporter from the local Fox affiliate, the lowest rated newscast in the Tri-State area. He's looking for some losers to profile in the requisite 6:22 human interest segment. He finds Stiles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUR7 *** 9:00 A.M. | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Assassin hones moral acuity. By moral I mean not a value derived from the Almighty, but an understanding of human nature distilled from experience, what Samuel Johnson defined in his 1756 Dictionary as "such as is known or admitted in the general business of life," what contemporary judges mean when they speak to jurors of moral certainty. The game alerts players to the potentialities of surprise, and especially surprise betrayal, and betrayal is part of the general business of life, even undergraduate life at Harvard. In Assassin, not a stranger but an acquaintance or friend becomes stalker, raptor, assassin...

Author: By Professor JOHN R. stilgoe, | Title: IN THE MEANTIME | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...base of support from other students, faculty, alumni, faith communities and the city of Cambridge. We have demonstrated nonviolently. Since the campaign's beginnings, many have noted that our single demand and the convictions that drive it are really quite basic, that they reflect a common-sense respect for human dignity and fair employment...

Author: By Christopher J. Vaeth, | Title: Little Progress on Living Wage | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

...base of support from other students, faculty, alumni, faith communities and the city of Cambridge. We have demonstrated nonviolently. Since the campaign's beginnings, many have noted that our single demand and the convictions that drive it are really quite basic, that they reflect a common-sense respect for human dignity and fair employment...

Author: By Christopher J. Vaeth, | Title: Little Progress on the Living Wage | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

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