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...says of Donny in The Big Lebowski: “You’re like a child that wanders into the middle of a movie!” We’re Donny, folks. Like middle-school students looking at a billboard for Camel Lights, Harvard students are easy prey for anyone selling us the “stereotypical college experience” of partying hearty. How sad. How misguided. After all, it’s clear to anyone that if colleges were characters from Lebowski, Harvard wouldn’t be Donny. Dammit, we’re D-grade...
...College is against fun, and while we expect students to obey the laws, we aren’t against drinking within the law. But we also expect students not to fall prey to roles cast for them by the TV and advertising world...
With little pass rush and less talent and experience in the secondary, the Crimson has fallen prey to opposing teams’ aerial attacks. Opponents have been able to find seams in the Crimson’s coverages and march the ball down the field. Harvard ranks second to last in the Ivy League, giving up an average of 261 yards in the air, and allowing opponents to complete over 56 percent of their passes...
...tinkers, moved to the U.S. to escape the potato famine. They started out as horse traders. Today, between 20,000 and 100,000 English, Scottish and Irish Travelers (nobody knows the actual number) live in groups, mostly in the South. They are reviled by some as con artists who prey on the elderly by overcharging for shoddy home-repair jobs. Others insist the Travelers are hard workers and have no more lawbreakers than any other community...
...Other sections of the site explain things like Jewish burial practices and the significance of the religious symbols carved into the stones. Haidler's project is unique in the Czech Republic, both for its digital presentation and for its effort to preserve an aspect of Jewish culture that is prey to natural erosion and vandalism. Though he now has backing in the form of cultural grants, Haidler still likes to camp out in graveyards, something he did in the past to save money. "There is nothing like waking up in a cemetery," he says. "For one thing, you are still...