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Though it may never feel right to describe the place as clean, the cleanup of the World Trade Center site is done. What was "the Pile," a jagged mountain of knotted steel and concrete, is now a hole, a neatly squared-off, rectangular cavity of 16 gray-brown acres. On May 30, in a ceremony to be attended by thousands of recovery workers, uniformed officers and family members of the victims, an honor guard will carry a flag-draped stretcher out of the pit. With that, the search for bodily remains will effectively end. The fire fighters and construction workers...
...road trip solidifies college friendships. At Harvard, many students are—for the first time—exposed to people from others part of the country. Californians meet Louisianans, Bostonians meet Texans, and Utahans meet Long Islanders. Our summers offer a great opportunity for new friends to pile into a car and cruise cross-country—actually experiencing, first hand, the different regions and cultures that make up this diverse nation. The summer road trip can be an extension of the bonding experience that goes on throughout the rest of the year...
Harvard students should pile into their cars this summer. Who knows, you and your friends might end up taking a spontaneous turn through purple mountains or amber waves of grain. Or you might not. Let the road decide...
...Maybe not for Zhu, but sex is, in fact, on every agenda, as Freud so famously declared. After much pressure, Wu allows a glimpse of his factory's musty purification room, where six Chinese women of varying ages slap translucent disinfectant on a pile of swirl-shaped green dildos, rapidly passing them down the line like volunteer fire fighters. Wu fades to the back and begins inspecting a box of pink toys, examining the motors and picking minute imperfections off the skin. With sex toys, quality is job one. "The market will be mature," says Wu, "when Chinese people think...
Here at the Crimson, we put out hundreds of sports stories every year, and sometimes as Harvard’s 41 varsity intercollegiate sports pile on top of each other, we lose the simple abilities of perception and hindsight...