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...last Thursday morning the telephone lines all over Beirut suddenly and mysteriously went dead. The glitch was probably caused by the city's notoriously fickle communication lines. But in retrospect, it seemed more like a sign that trouble was in the air. Literally in the air, it turned out: just off the coast, four Israeli helicopter gunships were loosing laser-homing Hellfire missiles and delivering Israel's first attack on Beirut in 14 years...
...Kaczynski '62, the prime Unabomber suspect, many media reports have focused on Kaczynski's ties to Harvard College. Much of the country seems to be surprised that such a bizarre character was educated at Harvard. However, many Harvard students are not surprised by these developments at all. In retrospect, it makes sense that a bomber who struck Yale and Berkeley but not Harvard was probably a graduate who still had a bit of respect for his alma mater. And now, many undergraduates are looking around at their classmates with increased interest, wondering who will be suspected of committing odd crimes...
...RETROSPECT, IT SEEMS A STRANGE cultural aberration. Or maybe a temporary virus. For a couple of years there, David Letterman was the toast of television. After toiling in the wee hours for more than a decade, the host of NBC's Late Night had been passed over for the job as Johnny Carson's successor on the Tonight Show. But he parlayed that slight into a lucrative new contract at CBS and his own 11:30 p.m. show to compete with Jay Leno. The crowds that jammed his studio audience gave him standing ovations every night; his Top 10 lists...
...WHINE ABOUT THEIR NEglectful, misunderstanding parents. They are snotty with one another and sullen in the face of authority. Sometimes they are arrogant, sometimes they are wimpish, all the time they are horny. They are, in short, 1960s preppies, tiresome enough at the time and hardly less so in retrospect...
Then, less than 24 hours before the game, five Harvard players--on their way home from a team dinner--were almost killed on Memorial Drive after getting broadsided by another vehicle. In retrospect, we can all take a deep breath and be thankful that the car crash wasn't as bad as it could have been...