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...Cabot House’s Green Cup early Tuesday morning. The trophy, which is awarded by the Resource Efficiency Program (REP) every Earth Day to the House that has most improved energy conservation, recycling habits, and “eco-projects,” was stolen from its perch in the Cabot dining hall by two disguised males at 1:30 a.m., according to eyewitness Adriana L. Benedict ’09. “The guy carrying the Green Cup was tall, thin, blonde and he appeared to be wearing shiny purple leggings,” Benedict said...
...case in many fairy tales, the characters tended not to act rationally, and some plot details were overlooked: Prince Roderick climbed in and out of Rapunzel’s tower without bothering to use her rope of hair, and when the maiden escaped her stairless perch, she simply walked down the stairs without any explanation...
...manly camaraderie, and failure as a father were just a few of the individual songs’ themes. On the whole, the music is well written, and although the harmonies occasionally faltered on opening night, Jennings lived up to the reputation of Rapunzel, sweetly serenading the audience from her perch at the back of the room...
...seven-degree weather hardly makes for an enjoyable first week of classes. To add to this trauma, Harvard students recently had to face the extra challenge of trying to avoid followers of political agitator and perennial presidential candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. who decided to leave their usual perch in Harvard Square to flood the area near the Science Center with bizarre pamphlets and posters...
Rubin listens intently from his cushioned perch and uses his lack of expertise to upend the traditional producer-as-God dynamic. "In the old days, when I'd hear something that's not working, I'd say, 'O.K., this is how we're going to fix it.' Now I ask, 'How do we fix it?' And nine times out of 10, what they come up with is as good as or better than how I would've done it," he says. Rubin's "they" includes a circle far wider than that of his peers. During a 1993 recording...