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...appalling that The Crimson has allowed this mockery-making of psychological illness and of an individual upon whom Harvard thought it worthy to bestow a degree. It is my sincere hope that there will be some published follow-up, lest we all be left to wonder, and, with no direction for our concerns to impel action, lest human compassion fade to apathy and Agatha M. Okyere, the living woman, vanish off our streets and into Harvard lore and worse, Harvard jokes...
Officers at the Defense Ministry have been instructed to wear civilian dress to work lest they become easy targets in a surprise attack, according to Western diplomats. Beyond that, there are few signs that the country has gone on a war footing. The front entrance to Saddam's main palace on the Tigris is fortified with concrete blocks, but it appeared to have been temporarily deserted by famished troops one evening last week at the time of the iftar. There have been no runs on the banks, no reports of hoarding of food. Iraqis are even relatively calm...
...stalking and carried signs labeling her "scum." The fracas occurred at a Victoria's Secret fashion/peep show taping for a CBS special. Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals oppose Bundchen's modeling work for a fur company. Bundchen remained unfazed as protesters were dragged offstage. Lest ugliness invade the vision of female loveliness and male fantasy, her interrupted turn down the runway was reshot...
...Anatomy," wrote John Donne, "dissected myself, and they are gone to read on me." This knowledge also gave writers a vocabulary that opened up new imaginative worlds. Donne describes the soul of a young girl, as it races through the stars and toward heaven, as "the pith, which, lest our bodies slack, / Strings fast the little bones of neck, and back; / So by the soul doth death string heaven and earth." Someone who hadn't seen a body dissected might have been able to draw the parallel, but probably not with the razor-sharp language that makes Donne...
...others warned lest Harvard change too much...