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The Harvard undergraduate community is meant to represent a microcosm of today's world. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions has done much to make our collective student body span across religious, ethnic, class and geographic lines with acknowledged diversity. But if we were to examine the "families" that we establish...
Sade has also encountered drama outside her romantic life. In 1998 a judge in Kingston, Jamaica, ordered an arrest warrant for Sade after she failed to appear at a hearing on reckless-driving charges. "It wasn't really a traffic incident, to be honest," says Sade, who claims that a...
Insipid, tepid and vigorously lacking in originality, the Pucker Gallery's current exhibit of pastels by Mallory Lake, Italy Light and Shadow, is a fuzzy romantic nightmare, Hallmark style. These lifeless, flat and relentlessly maudlin landscapes do the impossible: resurrect the bourgeois landscape of the 19th century without even the...
There are times when less would not be more, when it would just be regrettably... less. Umberto Eco has argued, for example, that "Casablanca" works because it evokes every convention of the romantic-adventure genre. If it had missed even one or two of them, he suggests, it would have...
Thanks to pop culture, Catholics don't have a monopoly on nuns. The religious sisterhood has been widely appropriated as a vehicle for the comic, the dramatic and the sublime. Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, Sally Field and Audrey Hepburn have all played roles in habits, proving, in the process, that...