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Kate L. Rakoczy ‘04, a social studies concentrator in Lowell House, is associate managing editor of The Crimson. She is spending her summer days interning in our nation’s hot, humid and hectic capital, and is grateful for the nightly reality check provided by the lone bugler in Arlington Cemetery...
Last week, under a humid, steamy tent across from Radcliffe Yard, University President Lawrence H. Summers said a few words at the reception for the Fay Prize recipients, students recognized for outstanding research in any field. After rambling on about the weather, he praised the breadth of fields represented by the three winners and said that the subjects researched demonstrated the wide range of interests pursued by the undergraduate community. The only problem with Summers’ remarks was that he was dead wrong: the three prizes given were all related to the sciences; one biology, one engineering...
...When I first meet him at his home outside Trivandrum, he's wearing a traditional white dhoti, blue plaid shirt and square glasses that make his black eyes look like marbles in a bowl. He has cocoa-colored skin and wavy white hair that seems to uncoil as the humid Kerala day wears on. The architecture that surrounds him is classically Keralite: the roof is low-slung and pyramidal, and the tiles are red terra-cotta. Egyptian hieroglyphics hang near a miniature print of the Mona Lisa; a pair of Japanese paintings face off against a profile of Lenin. They...
...concrete pier along the shore was piled with stacks of bodies. The dead were later interred in a temporary cemetery nearby. National Guard soldiers soon took over and ordered every home to be blacked out at night. They shot at any light showing through the cracks. In our darkened, humid rooms, we huddled in dismay at the way our ancestral Japan had put a curse on all Japanese living in Hawaii. Other ethnic groups looked upon us as the enemy, not to be trusted. Our village elders soon got together to burn or destroy anything to do with Japan: photos...
...first day outdoors [since the fall],” junior Cliff Nguyen said. “It was pretty humid on Friday, 82 degrees, and we started getting a little tired...