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During the last days at Harvard before my leave of absence, I made a sincere plea that the inanity of the annual Mather House sophomore outing be replaced with a more meaningful day of community service that might bring the entire house together, in the process working against some of the clique-ish isolation that for me was nearly fatal. The Masters rejected the proposal, taking a stance that has come to typify the University reaction as a whole: rather than acknowledging a problem of far-ranging scope, Harvard prefers to insulate itself by writing off each death, each breakdown...
Damning the current Unabomber suspect, Gelernter writes, "Hut man's goal was to be the country's No. 1 criminal." He also says a 1993 bombing was "Mr. Bucolic-Cottage-in-the-Countryside's first outing in several years." Was it? Gelernter should not invoke the word justice in urging the death penalty for a man yet to be tried, let alone convicted. GORDON BLACK Mendocino, Calif...
...Harvard equestrian team had a successful outing this past weekend at Colby Sawyer College...
...literary conceit or is it an outing? The cover of the October Esquire proclaims that KEVIN SPACEY has a secret. The story opens by suggesting that the secret is that Spacey is gay, but goes on to say the real secret is that he's a movie star. (Gosh.) It could be seen as a smart-alecky way of writing an otherwise glowing account of Spacey's merits, but it irked the star's handlers. Spacey's agent, Brian Gersh, went so far as to suggest he would discourage anyone William Morris represents from working with Esquire, a statement others...
Maddy Webster, the chair of the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition, which organized the festival, said that there was a "heavy presence of NARCs"-undercover narcotics agents-and the crowd was actively "outing them...