Word: humor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very early age, and she has shown an extraordinary amount of courage," says Peter Galbraith, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, describing those years of endurance. "She was treated incredibly badly, yet she has retained a sense of balance--she's charming, she has a sense of humor, and she hasn't turned bitter...
...Michael "Trig" Tarazi '89 is a person of contrasts: madcap humor and solemnity, nationalism and iconoclasm...
Roommate Eric Kaplan '89, a former Lampoon vice-president, thinks Tarazi uses his outrageous sense of humor to ease the tension of these conflicting loyalties. For example, he says the humor of wearing drag may appeal to Tarazi because it mocks and exaggerates conventional roles...
...Without humor, Kaplan says Tarazi could become a dogmatic "Trotskyite intellectual" with no real personal life. "With a sense of humor, you can live with the contradiction and be optimistic that it won't turn into a tragedy," he says. "The best leaders are not going to be the people who are so totally one-sided and have no zest...
Other publications also saw humor in the vote. The New York Times ran a headline the next day that read, "Vote to `Secede' From Harvard is taken by Cambridge City Council...