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...shouldn't be here, and Harvard shouldn't have anything to do with them." Jake Stevens '86, a member of the Committee on College Life, puts it less broadly, "The Committee acts under the assumption that no College group may discriminate on the basis of sex, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation or physical disability," quickly adding that it occasionally grants some exemptions. (I think at once of the physical disability--weight 112 pounds--that excluded me from the football team I yearned to join in my youth...
...humor of an outraged moralist, a writer who takes his corruption and evil seriously. Much contemporary satire gets by on contrived conspiracies, abstract villainy and stock victims. The Building offers an older and more enduring view of human nature. Its characters get no points for race, religion, origin, social position or physical condition. Sin is apportioned without prejudice. The only salvation is madness or art, which may be the same thing. One tenant lectures to cockroaches; a painter cannot turn off his vision: "If he stops it will continue to come, escaping through his head into...
...boggling still: it would serve as a circular iron-and-steel racetrack for beams of subatomic particles, traveling at fantastic speeds, that would be smashed together in an effort to mimic conditions at the earliest moments of the universe. It would enable physicists to probe fundamental mysteries about the origin of matter and energy and could help them achieve a long-sought goal: to weave the four known forces of nature--electromagnetism, gravity, the weak force (responsible for radioactive decay) and the strong force (which holds atomic nuclei together)--into a single, elegant, grand unified theory. Says Leon Lederman, director...
Arkell apparently also made a hand signal to refrigerator workmen being interviewed to keep them from discussing the origin of the blaze...
...Texans a thorough exposure to a remarkable, offbeat place and its equally remarkable and offbeat people. Anyone who can remember one tenth of the details will be a walking encyclopedia of things Texan from the number of types of cactus in Big Ben National Park to the unlikely origin of "The Yellow Rose of Texas." Texas isn't a bad combination of Trivial Pursuit and Dallas, but it isn't a good way to get to know Texas either...