Word: knit
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Along with the click of four-color pens and the occasional bleep of the obstreperous cell phone, the newest sound to be heard in Harvard's lecture halls is the click-clack of knitting needles. While it feels a little absurd to place this activity--formerly associated with hearthside grandmothers--alongside the yo-yo and the hula hoop in the ranks of the truly faddish, it's hard not to notice the conspicuous rise of "chicks who knit...
...Advice for Cornell" (Editorial, Oct. 28), The Crimson Staff, reflecting on the state of Harvard's own house system, states that "Randomization...has eroded this individual character [of each of the Houses]." You advise the Cornell administration not to "expect the close-knit comunities of earlier this century to develop...
More broadly, the fires may signal a last wheeze of radicalism within environmentalism. When radicals lose arguments, they burn things, thereby rendering themselves unable to effect real change. Earth Liberation Fronters forsook the demands of democracy (reason, persuasion) when they formed the loose-knit movement in 1992. Some say they were angry that their mother group, Earth First!, wouldn't promote sabotage. Others theorize that Earth Firsters orchestrated the split to deflect blame for "monkey wrenching," as these tactics are called, from the main organization. Whatever the case, Fedor says the ELFs are experienced monkey wrenchers. Last year they allegedly...
What can Cornell learn from the state of our house system? Let students have some choice in their housing and allow them to define the character of their residential setting. But don't expect the close-knit communities of earlier this century to develop...
...private manner of his death betrayed the poet?s secret world. Only his family, his publisher and a tightly knit circle of close friends knew that Ted Hughes, the British poet laureate and by common consent one of the 20th century?s greatest writers, had cancer and had been struggling reclusively with it for 18 months. Finally, Hughes passed away Wednesday night at the age of 68, Faber & Faber, his publisher, announced Thursday...