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...often Dartboard’s Matherite friends lament the distance that separates them from campus! They were “Mather than hell” when they first learned of their fate in the housing lottery last spring and they still begrudge Dartboard and his blockmates for getting lotteried into Leverett...
Students stranded in their dorms on Saturday can no longer lean on the age-old lament that “nothing ever happens at Harvard.” Throngs of first-years scouring the river Houses and final clubs can’t say they didn’t know better. Sophomores can’t say a packed common room in Quincy—playing beiruit against blockmates with warm, week old beer—was “the only option...
...wrote Samuel Beckett, whose plays and novels are no more depressing than your average country lament. John R. Cash (his first producer, Sun Records boss Sam Phillips, dubbed him Johnny) had every right to sing the country blues. Demons found him even when he wasn't looking for them. He dressed like a hip coroner and sang like a gunman turned Pentecostal preacher. His haunting songs perfectly matched his haunted voice. Rarely before Cash had a singer taken vocal pain--not the adolescent shriek of most rock singers but the abiding ache of a veteran victim--and made...
...history and literature—have myriad opportunities to get to know professors, to sit around a small table and debate and to write 20-page papers on original topics with original research. But many of my upperclass friends in larger concentrations lament that they haven’t had a small discussion class since their freshman seminar...
...story that tells the tale of Umm Qasr’s municipal elections. Frequently do we hear the mantra of violence in the press recited: antiwar activist Michael Moore, whose ilk dwells on this kind of negative outlook, retells it in Bowling for Columbine; Nancy Reagan and Lynne Cheney lament it in Congressional hearings; thousands of Americans daily note in passing one or another murder featured as the top story in the local newspaper. The more grandiose arena of Iraq merely offers a larger stage for the violence that captivates Americans, as well as the syndicates who report their news...