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Gordon T. Kraft-Todd ’07 took the coveted Mr. Harvard trophy and crown home to Currier House, outstripping first runner-up John “Jack” P. McCambridge ’06 of Winthrop House and second runner-up John “Pat” P. Coyne ’07 of Quincy House...
Current Student Affairs Committee (SAC) chair Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06—who many considered to be a front-runner for the vice president position—wrote in a statement last night that not only would he not be pursuing the post but would not be running for reelection to the council next semester...
...Front runner in the summer sweepstakes is War of the Worlds, for which Steven Spielberg has added his patented parent-and-imperiled-child theme to H.G. Wells' alien-invasion novel, memorably filmed in 1953. Tim Burton has imposed his lovable eccentricity on the Roald Dahl children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with Johnny Depp replacing Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. In 1974, Burt Reynolds starred as the football-playing con in The Longest Yard; now he supports Adam Sandler and Chris Rock in their replay. And if your memory of Herbie, the Disney Love Bug, is as rusty...
...neurological roots of cutting are a mystery, but several theories have been put forward. When the body is injured, it releases natural opiates that help dull pain--a process that is behind the fabled runner's high. Cutting inflicts a very real injury, and self-mutilators may be seeking the neurochemical kick that follows. "When I would cut myself deliberately, I didn't even feel it," says Emily, 16, who is in her third week of treatment at Two Brattle Center. "But if I got a paper cut I didn't want, that would hurt...
...forever proud of my achievement. Nonetheless, at the end of the day, Primal Scream is not about my individual nakedness—if it were, I might go to section nude—but about the collective experience. I could never have done eight for eight as a solitary runner, but only as one among many in a huddled mass of naked flesh...