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...more frightened to be there than I was,” Tuan said. “It seemed like he was ready to dart.” Tuan said that as he started to approach the intruder, the man suddenly yelled, “Okay, I get it,” and then bolted out the door. In an e-mailed statement, Harvard University Police Department spokesman Steven G. Catalano wrote that officers were dispatched to the scene at approximately 5:30 a.m. The case is still under investigation, but Catalano said that “at this time...
...book cover was enough to make me hyperventilate. Death by post-its, anyone? SHOPAHOLIC & BABY by Sophie Kinsella I literally cringed when I saw this book. Haven’t we had enough “Shopaholic” books? The first one was good. The second one was okay. The third one was manageable. The fourth one—I couldn’t get myself to read the fourth one. Seriously, you know the author’s getting desperate when she has to pull out a long lost sister. And now a fifth? How many more times...
...saying it is cuddly, left-of-center, and/or not despicable—so Jon Stewart makes the cut, while Ann Coulter does not. One need not look far to see the consequences of this focus on the speaker rather than the speech. For instance, a certain racial slur is okay for Jay-Z, but not for Michael Richards. Or, to use an example closer to home, if an individual is disliked or perceived as illiberal (and at Harvard, these two usually go hand in hand), their benign-to-mildly-offensive comments can take on new degrees of horrendousness, suddenly becoming...
...following morning, I found myself describing the premise for this column in the midst of a typical “I have too much to do” grievance. Varun, one of my ever-supportive roommates, tried to defuse my angst, commenting: “It’s okay man, no one’s going to read or care about blues anyway.” Ah, sweet relief...
...Okay, buzzing disco-funk-punk-electro-warehouse children, prep for white irony all topped off in sweated-out curls, because “Myth Takes,” the latest from !!!, has landed. “Myth Takes” aspires to present !!! in all its diverse dance-inducing glory, but if the album proves anything, it’s the difficulty of successfully appropriating multiple influences to make something that both works and makes bodies work. From their name alone, !!! aspire to be all unexpected fun—or cultural pirates. The symbol ! is used to denote a mouth...