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...awakening to our plight began on Tuesday, March 27 while in the audience of a performance of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Henry IV at the Barbican Centre in London. One of my fellow countrymen, I believe hailing from the mid-western region of our fine nation, availed himself of the opportunity to make a call on his mobile phone. He apparently wished to share his exuberance at witnessing an incredibly powerful theatrical performance with some loved one unable to be in attendance. This experience was greatly heightened by the presence of a largeish woman from Rhode Island...
...know the cereal you had for breakfast is genetically modified? Those corn flakes just aren't natural. The thing is, no corn that we would recognize is in a strict sense natural. Corn started off as a small grassy plant with an inch-long fruit. Native-Americans and later, mid-western farmers manipulated the plant's genetic code to increase the size of the fruit and make the plant more hardy. These genetic modifications, of course, happened before any understanding...
...there is a larger issue here, of course. Harvard can be quite intimidating. As someone who came here from a small mid-western high school that rarely sends anyone out of state to college (much less to Haahvard) I can attest to that, and I think that it is a feeling we've all shared at one time or another. And yet, while most students go out of their way to downplay intellectual elitism outside of Harvard, there often seems to me a terrible tendency toward it within the undergraduate community itself. It is a kind...
...through the cracks of the sidewalk. Asphalt covers all the streets, and white-washed something-or-other coats William James. But throughout, there is a sense of brick. It is Harvard's theme, perhaps lifted from Oxford or Cambridge, and made into further kitsch by scores of Ivy-admiring, mid-western schools. This continuity--not of style or design, but of material--conveys a sense of uniformity that is comforting. But this uniformity is ultimately false and imposed by men in the vain hope of controlling, taming if you will, their volatile, urban surroundings...
Just because the Porc is exclusive doesn't mean that diversity isn't an issue. "Embryo Waterfield seems NB," a club member remarked of John Randall Water-field '96, "Mid-Western embryo! We're lacking in this quotient (for good reason...