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Seniors have engaged in a year-long discussion about their theses that is as redundant as it is uninteresting, and as pathetic as it is boring. Dear lord, it’s a thesis we’re talking about here. Although some concentrations require original research, not many of us will produce something that hasn’t already ever been said before—and before, and before that. And it’s unlikely that any of us will alter the course of the universe with our conclusions either. As such, the thesis is simply a research...
...Were Hobbits Once ... And Young Lord Of The Sixties...
...much as the marketing department at New Line Cinema might want audience members to forget, the megamovie Lord of the Rings has a history that predates Elijah Wood's hairy toes. Amid the cultural storm of the 1960s, American hippies put down their bongs, turned down the Hendrix and transformed an obscure three-volume fantasy by an Oxford professor into a counterculture classic. Rings-mania swept U.S. campuses, prompting TIME to comment, in the quaint parlance of the age, "The hobbit habit seems to be almost as catching as LSD." New initiates wore buttons declaring "Frodo Lives...
Improbably, she succeeded brilliantly at one of the skills that some of her more conservative family members fumbled: parenting. Lord Linley, 40, a successful cabinet maker, and Lady Sarah, 37, an artist, married intelligently and durably, stayed close to their mother, gave her three grandsons and are by nearly all accounts happy and well-adjusted. They rarely make headlines - in fact, they are quiet, respected, near-perfect royals of the sort Margaret herself might have been, had her youthful dreams not been thwarted...
...victories from junior Dylan Patterson and sophomore Ziggy Whitman and a 9-0, 9-0, 9-0 thrashing administered by junior Thomas Storch, the Crimson (5-1, 2-0 Ivy) came away with an 8-1 victory over the Lord Jeffs (6-6). The triumph put Harvard back on the winning track heading into crucial Ivy League contests against Penn and Princeton this weekend...