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...physician at University Health Services (UHS), Dr. Coley has made a professional hobby of the disease. He candidly admits that "It s really something that most physicians know very little about." A survey he has conducted collaboratively with the Computer Science Department will, once examined, hopefully provide a quantitative portrait of the disease, a description of trends and percentages that will rescue RSIs from much of the conjecture and guesswork that characterize discussions of it here at Harvard...
...what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Burning the flag is a childish but far from unconscionable way to protest governmental action. Thus, I find the proposed amendment disturbingly reminiscent of the criminalization of any physical desecration of Stalin's portrait, intentional or unintentional, in the now-defunct Soviet Union...
Will W. Erickson '00-'01, a campaign organizer, told the crowd in a speech that he was missing a Literature and Arts C section that would be discussing Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait to Gaugin," which hangs in the Fogg Art Museum...
Movies may glamorize mayhem while serving as a fantasy safety valve. A steady diet of megaviolence may coarsen the young psyche--but some films may instruct it. Heathers and Natural Born Killers are crystal-clear satires on psychopathy, and The Basketball Diaries is a mordant portrait of drug addiction. Payback is a grimly synoptic parody of all gangster films. In three weeks, 15 million people have seen The Matrix and not gone berserk. And Carrie 2 is a crappy remake of a 1976 hit that led to no murders...
From a ridge on Mount Holyoke--the mountain, not the college--Tracy Kidder looks down at Northampton, Mass., near where he lives. He has just written an impressionistic portrait of this old New England community, Home Town (Random House; 349 pages; $25.95). From his perch, he dreams up a lofty introduction that concludes, "...the cornfields are a dream of perfect order, and the town seems entirely coherent, self-contained, a place where a person might live a whole life and consider it complete, a tiny civilization all its own." Then, beguiled by a sentimental image, he adds, "The town below...