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...befuddlement, lamented the left-over keggers: "I was expecting a lot more people to be psyched for free beer." So were we, Rudd. So were we. Just goes to show you that what Harvard students expect from its student government isn't free beer and pop music on the lawn. It's a real mandate, some real accountability, and our favorite council members in a dunk-tank on the lawn. Patrick S. Chung
...chairs of the Harvard Israel Public Affairs Committee, we grew used to defending Israel against cynical distortions of history, and often found ourselves engaged in the senseless task of producing a balance sheet of Palestinian and Israeli suffering. We had hoped that the famous handshake on the White House lawn was a sign of a new era of constructive dialogue. Sadly, we have been reminded by Ramy Tadros' article ("Israel's `Independence' Day," guest commentary, May 3, 1995) that not everyone shares our reluctance to use human suffering as currency to purchase rhetorical points...
...bombing." And one of the last times any of Nichols' neighbors in the small farming town of Herington, Kansas, saw him, the dark-haired 40-year-old was tending to the small front yard outside the faded blue house with the white shutters. "He was spreading fertilizer on the lawn with his bare hands," says the person who lives directly across the tree-lined street. "I thought it was peculiar...
...Matyjas, his tenth-grade geometry teacher, remembers how "the kids used to pick on him." Schoolmates sarcastically voted the taciturn McVeigh "Most Talkative." Still, he showed initiative: he charged the neighborhood kids admission to a haunted house in his basement and ran small gambling casinos on his front lawn. One neighbor thought McVeigh "would go somewhere...
Most of the other houses along the block display little blue signs on the front lawn, compliments of the Harvard Historical Commission, which ensure that nobody will change the color or appearance of the homes...