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...attendees of this past October’s infamous dessert riot, this Harvard Yearbook description may seem to describe Harvard College Libraries’ (HCL) decision to keep Lamont open 24 hours a day on weekdays. But this year-in-review blurb was actually written 50 years ago, celebrating a successful student campaign in 1955-6 to extend the undergraduate library’s weekday closing time from 10 p.m. to the wee hour of midnight throughout the school year...
...Then, says Reinado, "they start the shooting. Chasing people, do whatever they like until the morning. On the 29th they go with the same mission: they are still shooting. It is no more demonstration. Everybody has run away." And with good reason: "They were using grenade launchers against the riot," he says. "I can't believe...
...production is certainly a sumptuous confection. Given access to the grounds and interiors of Versailles, Coppola captures the splendor of aristocratic excess, aided artfully by the work of production designer KK Barrett and costume designer Milena Canonero. The quiet riot of pastels and ruffles hint at Marie's isolation from the shouts of revolution in the Paris streets. Dunst is a living porcelain doll, dimpled and sweet. Her Marie may be ignorant of the great roiling world outside, but her job was not to be spokeswoman for the masses. It was to provide a male heir for the throne...
...Catholic Church is not changing its position and will not condone condom use under any circumstances. As a former Catholic, I rue the day when I confessed to a priest that I used birth control after having my fifth baby. That man said I was sinning and read the riot act to me. He had a lot of nerve! The church's policy against artificial contraception is nothing short of medieval. Mary Thomas Garden Grove, California, U.S. The Fruits of Colonialism Re "Exit strategies" [may 8], on European anti-immigration policies: Perhaps the right-wing elements in the governments...
...visiting Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, who was speaking at Harvard on the Vietnam War (and who had, to be fair, declined to debate an editor of a liberal magazine while at Harvard). What ensued was a “physical confrontation” just short of a riot, in which the embattled McNamara fled in his car through angry crowds on his way out of Cambridge. It was an event that prompted one Crimson reader to remark, in a letter to the editor, that “it seems apparent that due to the temperamental orientation of many...