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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ultimately, I chose not to take up the punch invitation. I won’t try to cast this as a particularly heroic act—obviously, it wasn’t. But my experience did convince me that principles and privileges don’t mesh well, and that temptation—in my world, at least—doesn’t tend toward the better of these...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski, Paul R. Katz, Matthew S. Meisel, and Ramya Parthasarathy | Title: The Final Stretch | 10/11/2006 | See Source »

Conversely, once they have become members, punches suddenly find that the world revolves around them (or, rather, “The Club”). Although there are exceptions, membership in an exclusive, privileged group breeds a sense of entitlement. Just like going to Harvard leaves graduates with notorious egos, many of the final club members I know emerge (consciously or not) from the punch process with an unwarranted sense of self-importance...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski, Paul R. Katz, Matthew S. Meisel, and Ramya Parthasarathy | Title: The Final Stretch | 10/11/2006 | See Source »

...fact that these assailants were not from Harvard does speak volumes about the tolerance of Harvard’s students, but only really says that they aren’t willing to punch people because of their feelings of discomfort,” he said in an e-mail...

Author: By Reed B. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb, Hate Case Fizzles | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...survive while trapped under tons of rock and rubble contains too many screams, tears, and fireballs to feel genuine.The real drama develops from the grief experienced by the men’s wives. Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaa’s portrayals of suffering provide the most sincere emotional punch in the film. In stark contrast, the men’s episodes of torment are so repetitive and exasperating that they destroy the verisimilitude Stone and his screenwriter Andrea Berloff establish in the precious moments prior to the towers’ collapse.In “United...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 9/11 Art Shoots For the Heart | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...better safe than sorry” approach. Following a Sept. 15 warning from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, HUDS pulled pre-bagged greens from the menu. Still, odds are nobody’s going to end up puking in Stillman at least for anything but the usual punch + vodka + TLR misadventures.Why so fast, HUDS? Harvard has already had several epidemics strike campus: In 1948, an unidentified virus sickened more than 1,000 undergrads and was eventually traced to the Kirkland House kitchen. Most recently, in 1994, a 24-hour stomach virus struck nearly 200 freshmen, forcing the College...

Author: By Alwa A. Cooper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Outbreak In the Salad Bar | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

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