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Alvin Chalmers, handcuffed in the backseat of an undercover cop car, closes his eyes and lets out a small moan. "I'm being treated like a criminal for being a victim," he says. "What kind of system is this?" Chalmers, a former municipal worker with a full beard and sad eyes who admits having been a drug addict, has just been plucked off rough-and-tumble Whitelock Street in the Reservoir Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, Md. His crime? Being too scared to testify in court against a paroled murderer who robbed him at gunpoint last April. Chalmers began missing court...
...given an undisclosed amount of fluids. An hour or so later, around 9:40 a.m., al-Qahtani tells his guards that he would be willing to talk if he is allowed to urinate. The log notes he is given 3 1/2 bags of IV fluid. He starts to moan and asks again to be allowed to relieve himself. Yes, but first he must answer questions...
Sometimes Danny and I look back on the day we got those acceptance letters with bewilderment. “What were we so excited about?” we ask each other as we bitch and moan about Harvard. But we were right to get excited—Harvard may not always be a force for good, but it took us together. And I’ll always approve of that...
...important to keep applying pressure on the University and College administration, even to ask for too much—that’s how we got Loker Pub Nights, after all. What bothers me about all the complaining we do is that some students really feel entitled to moan about Harvard as though they deserve waterslides, cable in every dorm room, and course reading lists that only contain picture books. A lot of us undergraduates need to get some perspective. Sure, Harvard has some lousy advisors, unintelligible TFs, and a sometimes muted party scene, and the University needs balanced criticism...
...night, Yannatos took the podium and conducted Blauvelt’s “Pishi,” a melancholy number with Paula Murrihy, an Irish mezzo-soprano and a recent graduate of the New England Conservatory. The piece, sung in Russian, began with an ominously dissonant moan from the orchestra, which swelled to climax as Murrihy sang her despondent first lines...