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...past eight months, I’d get a blank stare. They are far more impressed if I say a few phrases in their native language.” Melvoin’s brother, Nicholas J. Melvoin ’08, traveled with his brother to Chile and Easter Island this spring break, and he says he’s looking forward to having his brother here in the fall, though he’s a bit apprehensive. “He spent his last year bungee jumping, sky-diving, and white-water rafting—and being stuck...
...bars in the square rely on college students for their profits. That is not to say that it was cool to puke in the bathroom. Your $7 Long Island ice tea did not include a fee for cleaning up your vomit...
...Sunday to Thursday, the participants brave financial and emotional costs ($8 for wine at Grafton?! What!?) to socialize with classmates at local bars. The past week has proven a bar-packed success. One female ’06er—waiting in a long line for her third Long Island Iced Tea at Tommy Doyle’s on Thursday—moaned, “It’s like all the virgin nerds just came out of their caves.” The real adherents to the mission can do it 30 days...
...past two years, two of the island's most prominent gay activists, Brian Williamson and Steve Harvey, have been murdered - and a crowd even celebrated over Williamson's mutilated body. Perhaps most disturbing, many anti-gay assaults have been acts of mob violence. In 2004, a teen was almost killed when his father learned his son was gay and invited a group to lynch the boy at his school. Months later, witnesses say, police egged on another mob that stabbed and stoned a gay man to death in Montego Bay. And this year a Kingston man, Nokia Cowan, drowned after...
...Republican failures on national security have opened up a political vacuum, the Democrats don't appear to be filling it. Ask a House or Senate Democratic campaign committee staffer who is the party's national face on security issues and you'll get this: Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island or Congresswoman Jane Harman of California. Reed is a serious, intellectually honest veteran and an expert on defense issues in the Senate, while Harman is an ambitious Harvard Law School graduate who is the ranking minority member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Both are credible and respected...