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Elaborate dining events are definitely an indulgence of holidays, with the time and kitchen space to prepare a meal. However, for my remaining month of vacation, I plan to eschew restaurants as much as possible. And I have every intention of searching out the nearest kitchen when I return to Harvard...
ANDOVER, Mass. — For the past month and a half, I have taught at the summer session of Phillips Academy. Although working close to home in this sylvan corner of northern Massachusetts was a joy to me, I have to admit a certain amount of moral struggle that I faced as a faculty member of an institution whose students condescendingly referred to me as a “local” while I grew up in neighboring North Andover. Now, at the end of the summer, I have seen the other side of the campus?...
...will enter my senior year at Harvard in less than a month, and in my time here I have seen myself grow more and more “well tuned,” to use Iago’s words, to the art of politics. We learn quickly here how to court both professors and classmates, to attend the proper dinners and shake the proper hands. This is not specific to a particular group of students, either. Whether vying for President of the International Relations Council or admission to the Delphic, it is quickly made clear to us that...
...recently as last month, drinking parents seemed to be all the rage. On the bookshelves: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor's Naptime Is the New Happy Hour, Robert Wilder's Daddy Needs a Drink and Chris Mancini's Pacify Me, the cover of which shows a six-pack consisting of five beers and one milk bottle. A pacifier dangles from one of the brews...
...over four days at upstate New York's Attica Correctional Facility in 1971. More than 1,000 prisoners rebelled, holding dozens of guards hostage and issuing a series of demands to improve living conditions (prisoners were reportedly allowed only one shower per week and one toilet-paper roll per month). After negotiations broke down, authorities forcibly retook the facility, using tear gas and live ammunition. The violence killed 32 inmates and 11 guards. (Decades later, New York State awarded millions in damages to surviving inmates who said they were mistreated following the insurrection as well as to the families...