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...From his perch overlooking Sarajevo's downtown, a Bosnian Serb sniper named Pipo watches people strolling the streets he thinks of as his. He likes to picture the streets the way they were before the cease-fire two weeks ago: fearful, deserted. "Everyone likes peace except me," he says. "I like...
...After a comprehensive 7-1 drubbing at the hands of the Crimson earlier this year in Bright Arena, the Tigers no doubt have ample motivation for wreaking revenge and knocking Harvard from its first-place perch in the ECAC...
...proud of what's been accomplished, but the swirl [in the Defense Department] has led me to conclude that I can better accomplish things from an independent perch on the outside at Harvard," Allison told The Crimson yesterday...
...merest glance of the professor. Often they will try to borrow a syllabus in order to appear of a higher class, but the pitiful pose collapses as the rightful owner reposseses his prized Xerox. But the syllabus-bearing middle class attempts frauds of its own. Some, for example, perch on radiators and try to look as comfortable in their makeshift accomodations as do the nobility in their plush aisles...
Harvard is a mysterious place, full of metaphorical nuts to crack and teeming with challenges for the gaming mind. Our perch atop the chimney of Memorial Church affords us fine view of curious students traversing the Yard, wondering, always wondering: When is a Yard not a Yard? and, Whence Schlesinger Library?, and so on. In the interest of putting churning young minds to rest once and for all, we have taken it upon ourselves to respond to some oft-asked questions about Mother Harvard...