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...stem from recollections of Susan Smith's tearful televised pleas to an alleged carjacker to return the two sons she had already drowned in a South Carolina lake. Bereaved relatives have become suspects in the court of public opinion. Such before-the-evidence perceptions overshadow the loss of a precious child. Bill McReynolds, a retired journalism professor at the University of Colorado, has played Santa Claus for the past three years at the Ramseys' Christmas party for neighborhood kids. He remembers how JonBenet gave him a vial of stardust for his beard this season. "JonBenet believed in Santa Claus...
Case in point: Every year greedy Harvard students line up around the block at Ben and Jerry’s for a free scoop of ice cream. These are the same students whose time is so precious that they can’t veer a few millimeters off course to let you by on the sidewalk. The same students who sip a $4 grande vanilla bullshit concoction while waiting for their treat. Even the lactose-intolerant kids stand in line, get their scoop, and throw it out, just so they can prevent a fellow student from getting a taste...
...threatened to enforce of the Solomon Amendment, a law passed in 1995 that allows the Secretary of Defense to revoke Department of Defense research contracts and grants to schools that bar military recruiters from campus. Initially, the law had little effect, since colleges, law schools, and business schools received precious little in the way of military research grants and could sacrifice funding to protect their gay and lesbian students. Over the years, subsequent amendments and interpretations have expanded the scope of the Solomon Amendment, and now all federal funding can be revoked from an entire university if recruiters are banned...
...Wonderful Man” is boring, candyfloss pop that acknowledges Wilco’s “Summerteeth” in its forcedly peppy instrumentation and retro harmonies. But while Wilco vocalist Jeff Tweedy always sounds too dire to make any of his poppier efforts irritating, James sounds cloyingly precious. “Off The Record,” while awe-inspiring in concert, sounds paradoxically forced on the record. Still, the band retains its flair for the redeeming musical moment. “Lay Low” is not conceptually jaw-dropping, but the spiraling, Built to Spill-esque...
...precisely why it might actually work.Though some fear that the notion of a “decentralized student center” is just a clever excuse for not building a real one, maybe, for once, the administration does know best. SPACE JAMHarvard is an urban campus. Space is limited, precious, and extremely expensive. “Funding is difficult to get, but space is even more difficult,” Corker says. Perhaps that’s why students reacted so strongly to the news that a central lot on 90 Mount Auburn St. was turning into library administration buildings...