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...honeysuckle. 1891-1910.” This seemingly inscrutable epitaph is inscribed onto a brick-sized plaque on the eastern railing of the Larz Anderson Bridge, just down JFK St. The plaque commemorates one of the most notorious freshmen ever to grace Harvard’s campus. Alienated by Northern academic culture, consumed by memories of his Mississippi home, and still lusting after his sister Caddy, Compson was looking for a way out on June 2, 1910. After a day of wandering aimlessly in Boston, he tied a pair of tailor’s weights to his feet and jumped...
...Within FATAWE, our trip was called the Northern Presidentials, but we took to calling ourselves ‘The 5000-Foot Club’ when we realized that all our peaks were over 5,000 feet and we would be gaining more than 5,000 feet in elevation in the same day,” he wrote...
Yesterday, Supreme Court justices heard arguments in the cases of Jose Padilla and Yaser Hamdi, U.S. citizens who have been detained in a South Carolina prison without counsel or formal criminal charges for two years. While Hamdi was captured by the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, Padilla was arrested on American soil. And though Padilla has been accused of trying to build a “dirty” bomb, the government’s inability to dredge up enough evidence to actually charge the man shows just how arbitrary his detention has been...
...wealth, privilege and social status? The chat is filled with 12 pages of some very sarcastic, very angry and very funny responses, including a handful from anonymous Harvard sources. Toward the end, it regresses into a debate about Harvard vs. Yale, the relative hotness of Northern girls vs. Southern and a fair amount about “Rick James...bitch...
...dinner with a friend. But while he enjoyed his “only-once-a-year” night on the town, the alarms began to sound worldwide. An amateur astronomer forecast that one of Spahr’s potentials was rapidly approaching the sky somewhere over the Northern Hemisphere. Based on the information available, a 25 percent chance of a collision within days was quickly confirmed...