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...early breakfast surrounded by abstruse physics formulas. My roommates and I, disregarding our pronounced penchant for parties, cloistered ourselves in our rooms this spring preceding a number of senior year rights-of-passage: thesis deadlines, orals and general exams. All the things that make us fun and normal (like other college kids from Boston College and Boston University) are tempered with bookish propensities, obsessive-compulsive proclivities and stringy-haired, bespectacled, plump, nail-biting, acne-spotted predilections...
...place was blowing up,” says John P. Reardon ’60, who worked in the admissions office before being named director of athletics in 1977. “By ’77-’78, life was getting pretty normal...
Freshman year, the first thing that shocked me about this school was how normal everything was. People looked normal. They dressed normally. They talked about normal things. About a month later, I stumbled across the second surprise: the normalcy is all an act. Behind the facade is real Harvard, or, more accurately, surreal Harvard...
...repeatedly there have been calls for Israel to leave the territories in exchange for nothing, not even the security necessary for its people to live normal lives. There have been numerous rallies on campus, editorials in The Crimson and speeches that condemn only Israel. Only by ignoring the facts and the history of the region could one blame the entire conflict on Israel, and yet that is precisely what many students and professors on the left have done. The lack of intellectual honesty about the situation disturbs me, but unfortunately no longer surprises...
...telltale detonation wires. The Harvard security force, who only had to wait until the plotters arrived with their plunger, discovered the wires. The group spent a night in jail but the next day were forgiven by the police and suspended by MIT for a term, and life returned to normal...