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With this selection, along with stale leftovers from Thanksgiving (like the grossly disappointing yet massively popular Harry Potter), Christmas is going to be a fun-filled movie season, even if the economy is depressed and all anyone buys is undergarments. Of course, in retrospect, even Home Alone 18 would be appealing at this point, coming off one of Hollywood’s worst years ever. Who can remember a worse year than the one where the meaty offerings were unequivocally over-cooked Christmas hams like Pearl Harbor and The Mummy Returns, and one great film (Spielberg?...
Gellert got to make his impact on the program his sophomore year, after the graduation of Hill. Though he had played the point his entire life, that season he would be asked to change positions. In retrospect, he says it was for the better...
...retrospect, the Greek theme to her first photo at Harvard is fitting. A Leverett house senior who hails from Normal, Ill., Sarah is a math concentrator. She sees Greek letters all the time in her mathematical studies, and spent last summer learning Ancient Greek at Harvard Summer School. When first learning Greek, “knowing math gives you a slight edge,” she says, “because you already know how to write...
...consciousness narratives and intellectual diatribes with careless ease to create a fitfully paced, engaging narrative that gradually builds in power. Her descriptions are precise and highly evocative. Charlotte details the reawakening of her memory: “The boredom and stasis of my present circumstances were driving me to retrospect in the desultory way that a person cooped up in an old house will eventually make her way to the attic and upend a few boxes.” Egan’s tone shifts, often humorously, to reflect the personality of the character on whose behalf she writes...
Though he is often remembered as the villain of 1969, students who were dragged from University Hall during the police bust are less critical of the late Harvard president in retrospect...