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...intentional wrongdoing, suggesting that he was singled out because of racism or homophobia.“No improper spending was ever documented,” he insists. “There’s never been a mayor like me in Massachusetts. I have and will again face peculiar scrutinies that I can’t explain unless I look to some sort of -isms.”Ultimately, Reeves paid back the money he owed, according to longtime local political observer Robert Winters.Winters calls Reeves’ financial missteps a result of unfortunate absentmindedness...
...will conveniently ignore all of these details and continue to complain that Harvard athletics are just bad, and that we’ll never catch that peculiar disease known as March Madness here, or win a football national championship...
...President, we despise you.” Langdon was the first Harvard president to be forced out of office. The no-confidence vote is a relic of systems in which the executive needs approval from the legislature in order to rule. But in the peculiar political structure of Harvard, it is the students—not the parliamentarians of the Faculty—who have proven capable of toppling the chief. —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Daniel J. T. Schuker can be reached at dschuker@fas.harvard.edu...
Professors’ inboxes overflowing with students’ well-crafted and earnest inquiries, lecture halls bursting with enthusiastic young men and women, a palpable spirit of excitement and possibility in the air—shopping period abounds in strange phenomena. But before its peculiar energy vanishes into the humdrum of the semester’s subsequent weeks, let us consider some improvements that could enhance students’ shopping experience and render the week an even more productive introduction to the semester. Shopping period has long been a time of introductions, as students become acquainted with new courses, professors...
...drawn to loss-ness of a certain kind, aloneness. Which is not peculiar to a lot of writers. Many writers use that as their stepping-off place because I think one thing that writers share in common is this sense of aloneness. Of somehow or another being cut off, being outside, and somehow having to communicate through writing. That?s the need for writing. And I find the characters I write also have that quality, of being somewhat or very much removed from the mainstream of life, and don?t know quite how to find themselves in society. Outsiders...