Word: midnighters
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...concentrators to do all of their section reading. Now that Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has extended party hours in the Houses to 2 a.m., students can shake it without worry of a resident tutor knocking on the door just an hour after midnight. This tentative change is long overdue—and it should remain permanent...
...upstart as dangerous, blasphemous, possibly insane for proclaiming himself the Messiah and telling his followers they would live forever if they ate his flesh and drank his blood. The film sees the rabbis as doctrinally pure but politically corrupt. Indeed, it suggests they are a rogue cell calling a midnight caucus for a frame-up. But Gibson also shows many Jews (and no Romans) treating Jesus with a kindness and charity one might call Christian. We acknowledge, then, that The Passion is rabidly anti-Sanhedrin--opposed, as Jesus and other Jews were, to the Establishment of the time...
Britell’s penchant for burning the midnight oil resulted in his next project. “One night I was out drinking with some of my buddies and we got to talking,” he says over a mimosa at Daedalus. “These guys came over and they liked some of the beats I’d done, and they were interested in having me write some of the music for the film they were making.” He ended up writing the score for a film (now in post-production) made by Nick...
Thomas D. Odell ’04-’05, who lived in J-entryway with Fonseca, said Fonseca dropped by his room around midnight on Saturday to have a couple drinks and make casual conversation...
...memory is still present enough in the national consciousness that the country demands someone minimally serious about national security. Dean collapsed because when people took a close look at him, he failed the midnight, red-phone, finger-on-the-button test. But the memory of Sept. 11 is now distant enough that, unlike in 2002, biography alone might be enough to meet the "seriousness" test...