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...Partially, it was because we were back in the days when compers just plain got treated unfairly. (I ultimately became Senior Editor of The Crimson and, ironically enough, in charge of running the comp; the guy who became managing editor my year had been cut when he first comped, too.) Partially it was because I had been burned by running incorrect information I should have verified and committing probably that spring's worst reporting error. Mostly, though, I had made a lot of people think I was cocky and arrogant. They were right...
...just loses itsgiddy edge. I will never be as blithely happy as Iwas as a freshman, splattering my walls with dadaart and collecting friends like baseball cards.But maturation afforded me a more soberappreciation of the simple joys of waking up inthe morning, having friends, and just plain beinghappy...
...then, that Great Good Fortune is one of the most disorganized, uninspired, flabby, lazily researched, half-assed--no, make that quarter-assed--additions ever to the already execrable library of books about Harvard. Even worse than its being pathetic, Great Good Fortune is just plain boring. And that is inexcusable, because the story of Harvard and its money is funny, shocking, shameful, scandalous and fascinating...
...entering the Senate chamber shortly before 4 p.m. last Wednesday, White House Courier Tim Saunders suddenly became the Invisible Man. Not that anyone actually failed to see him, or to guess what he was carrying in a manila envelope decorated with the White House seal. With Saunders in plain view, Majority Leader Robert Dole archly informed fellow Senators that Ronald Reagan had vetoed an attempt by Congress to block a sale of arms to Saudi Arabia, and * "somewhere there is a messenger who has that information." But the moment Saunders' presence was officially acknowledged, the veto would become the pending...
Crack is cocaine intensified. Its effects are cocaine's--but amplified, sharper, meaner, uglier. The assault on the body, brain and nervous system occurs in swifter, more profound fashion. "Crack, even more than plain cocaine, puts users at extremely high risk," says Dr. Nicholas Masi of the cocaine addiction treatment center in Plantation...