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...remember the first time I was stopped short by this statement. I was sitting on the T during rush hour, looking around in that vaguely dreamy way most of us do when we’re using mass transit. The button on the young woman’s book bag next to me caught my eye. Rape happens at Harvard. She saw me staring, and gave me a guarded but friendly smile. I asked her about the button, and she told me that she put it there to remind people that even at Harvard, sexual violence is a problem...
...Storrow and Memorial Drives. While an Allston House might be about the same physical distance from the John Harvard statue as the Quad Houses, it is further in minutes and in mind. Imagine students taking a morning shuttle to class only to see it get stuck in the epic rush-hour traffic at the Larz Anderson Bridge. Imagine students drinking all night in Cambridge with their friends and then trying to cross Memorial Drive on their way back home. Students living in the Quad already feel separated from their peers along the river; an undergraduate campus spanning across two cities...
...line with their libertarian, free-market ideals. In Ec10, Marty Feldstein tells us to believe that economic equality is a fable, that the misfortunes of millions aren’t our problem—that, simply put, “life ain’t fair.” Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly likely go to sleep at night with the comfortable notion that they deserve what they have, and that the jobless, homeless and uninsured deserve their fate as well. This year in America, the same sort have purchased a higher percentage of SUVs than...
...that, however, assumes the thing actually works. In contrast to the Mercury program, which was tested more than a dozen times before Alan Shepard became the first American in space in 1961, China's Shenzhou has flown on only four occasions. The reason for China's rush may be a political imperative to blast off on-or near-the Oct. 1 National Day. A successful flight will likely stoke the country's growing patriotic fervor. The celebrations could rival those that accompanied Hong Kong's return to the motherland in 1997 or China's selection two years ago to host...
Avoiding the pass rush on the first series of the third quarter, Schiller rolled out of the pocket and away from danger to find junior wide receiver LeRoy Knight two steps behind his coverage downfield for a touchdown that narrowed the gap to just 11 points...