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...have always referred to the Harvard experience as a blender. It kind of slices you up and twirls you around, and the object of the game is to somehow put yourself back together. The woman who I have reassembled is much different than she once was. She feels no need to reinvent herself. More than anything else, my relationships at this school have made me more comfortable with myself and with the decisions I will have to make. And I owe much of this to my Harvard angels, all the people who have knowingly or unknowingly stepped into my memory...
...Lovett, a baker of unsavory meat pies, that the judge has raped his wife (leading her to poison herself) and taken their daughter Johanna as his ward. While Sweeney slaved “in a living hell,” Johanna has grown into a beautiful young woman, the object of affection of both the licentious judge and the young sailor, Anthony Hope, who aided Sweeney in making it back home to London...
...intimidated. What they have on their side is little more than rhetoric, though: They wish everyone would make a conscious effort to diversify. But there’s little evidence that that will happen in the near future: Those who defend self-segregation, though they may object to the term itself, offer a number of concrete reasons why students come together in ethnically separate groups. Such social behavior is understandable, they say; it’s beneficial and it’s so natural that even those who attack it are often guilty of self-segregating without realizing...
...pulled items from a cardboard box. "I can kill you with a magazine, a soda can, a compact disk, a wine bottle, and a fork," he told an audience of airline pilots. Then Messina, a stocky former cop with a Fu Manchu mustache, began thrusting a 6-in. gold object into the air. "But this is the best!" he boasted. "I bought it yesterday at John F. Kennedy Airport." In his hand was a dagger-sized Statue of Liberty with a knife-sharp torch and crown...
Catalano said the “object of choice” is laptops, although an increasing number of palm pilots have been reported stolen...