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It’s déjà vu all over again.Although the Harvard men’s volleyball team surged ahead in the first game against Endicott last night in Beverly, Mass., the Crimson yielded to the Gulls 3-1 (30-24, 22-30, 32-30, 30-24), mirroring last week’s 3-1 loss against Springfield, in which Harvard swept the Pride in the game-opener and then gave up the next three contests. The non-conference match against Endicott (5-6, 2-1 NECVA) marked the second loss for the Crimson...
Crème Café is moving into 27 Brattle St., a storefront near the intersection of Brattle St. and Mass. Ave. that was formerly occupied by an Au Bon Pain. The owners say Crème Café will be an alternative to national chain coffee shops in the Square, because the proprietors plan on getting to know their customers intimately...
...secure one against the relentless trawler called YouTube: those easy, embarrassing mistakes—calling someone a ‘major league asshole’ under your breath, getting drunk at a wedding, flipping off a camera—can and will be dredged up for mass consumption (in these three cases, just because you’re the 43rd President of the United States...
...recently, graduates from the ardent class of 1967 call today’s students “apathetic,” they seem to be referring to this inaction, not necessarily with regard to human rights abuses from half a century ago, but to the war in Iraq, mass murder in Darfur, or any number of contemporary tragedies. But our generation’s passive reaction to global injustice indicates nothing about whether or not we care, it is merely an indication of our acquired ability to move on in the presence of injustice while still doing what...
It’s perhaps more important, however, that we come to grips with our unique cultural context. First, the fact is that we are among the first generations to be raised in a society saturated by the mass media (and the often jarring images they convey), and this cannot be understated. How else can we explain our capacity to bear witness to such terrible things without ever taking political action? We seem appallingly able to witness devastating crimes on the television and then go back to pleasant dinner conversation, almost without blinking...