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...Tobel ’06, Simmons’ “unofficial third roommate” sees someone she knows and sprints over in her stilettos to say hi. Deceptively innocent-looking Jordan J. Evans ’06, originally from England and Chelsea’s oldest Harvard friend (they met within two hours of beginning dorm crew), prefaces the night by saying, “We apologize if we’re not quite lucid. [Simmons and I] have been tailgating at Brown all day.” By 9:30, the group reaches Pennypacker and flies upstairs...
...wall or catching a bullet on an upper floor, Yasser Arafat spent much of last Friday and Saturday on the second floor of his Ramallah refuge telephoning Arab and European leaders to ask for support and fuming at the latest Israeli incursion into his West Bank compound. With his oldest enemies once again closing in around him and allies questioning whether they should continue to support him, Arafat was assailed from above and below...
Precisely 75 years ago, Gordon Cairnie opened the door to a little shop that would eventually become one of the country’s oldest poetry bookstores. Known affectionately as “the Grolier,” the hole-in-the-wall nestled behind the Harvard Book Store has served as a remarkable library and meeting place for three-quarters of a century. It became, over the years, stomping grounds for the likes of T.S. Eliot ’10, e.e. cummings ’15 and Allen Ginsburg, as well as generations of Advocate editors and Helen Vendler...
...Mazayev, a 25-year-old exile from the Chechen capital of Grozny, was filming in Pankisi, his main concerns were squaring the local mafiosi and allaying the fears of his actresses. His 35-minute feature aims to tell the story of the second Chechnya war through one family. The oldest son, Mikail, doesn't fall into the usual Chechen warrior stereotype - the film hints at a love of drawing - but nonetheless leaves his village, family and fiancé and joins a guerrilla unit when the Russians invade in 1999. He is fatally wounded in a minor skirmish. When he dies...
...BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED. KAMATO HONGO, at 115 the world's oldest person; in Kyushu, Japan. Kyushu is also home to the world's oldest man, 113-year-old Yukichi Chuganji. While Japan's long life expectancy is a point of national pride, the country's dominance of global old-age records has come to reflect the looming economic and social problems associated with its aging population...