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...Gail E. Henderson, a University of North Carolina social medicine professor who knew Brandt during his two-year stint as an associate professor at the school in the early 1990s, recalled Brandt’s performance at a speech for the Infectious Diseases Society of America...
While the student body that President Lowell knew in 1907 has changed drastically in the hundred years since his speech, his vision of the House system as a democratic means for socializing and bonding remains intact. In recent years, Stein Clubs have helped further this goal of promoting House social life, largely without promoting a culture of alcoholism. Though the future of Stein Clubs seemed under threat with the College’s recent crackdown on underage drinking, its new policy banning hard liquor from Stein Clubs is reasonable, and even laudable: it both strives to preserve a key component...
...third person is particularly jarring when juxtaposed with the next story, “tape measure,” a first-person account of a hyperconscious tapeworm who commences his narrative from inside a toilet bowl.“Once I’d been ingested I knew what to do where I found myself, I gained consciousness; nature is a miracle in the know-how it has provided, ready, in all its millions of varieties of eggs: I hatched from my minute containment that the human eye never could have detected on the lettuce, the raw meat, the finger...
...then, could they satisfy these both the most base and most cerebral of yearnings? They thought long and hard. Finally, an electronic courier proclaimed an event of capital proportions: “Subject: Gingerbread House Contest RIGHT NOW!”The theme: architecture around the world. Our protagonists knew they had happened upon the solution to their twin problems. They would build a gingerbread house that would not only satisfy the common hunger, but would also lift the spirit in the manner of great constructions past. The mission was clear: to create a cathedral, but not just any cathedral...
...said there were no massage therapists available, but Purdy said he could fit her in, according to Hale. “When I went back [for the appointment], I was alone in the basement of an empty store with him, my mother was on a plane, and no one knew where I was,” Hale said. Hale came forward after hearing of Purdy’s 2005 arrest on prostitution charges. She decided not to press charges, believing that it would take a substantial amount of time for the case to be heard and that a successful prosecution...