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Assassin hones moral acuity. By moral I mean not a value derived from the Almighty, but an understanding of human nature distilled from experience, what Samuel Johnson defined in his 1756 Dictionary as "such as is known or admitted in the general business of life," what contemporary judges mean when they speak to jurors of moral certainty. The game alerts players to the potentialities of surprise, and especially surprise betrayal, and betrayal is part of the general business of life, even undergraduate life at Harvard. In Assassin, not a stranger but an acquaintance or friend becomes stalker, raptor, assassin...

Author: By Professor JOHN R. stilgoe, | Title: IN THE MEANTIME | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...ought to play, lest they prove useless when push becomes shove, when the night needs repossessing. Assassin sheds only a glimmery moral light, but one that once fascinated Melville and other writers preoccupied with delineating character under stress, with decrying one part of the general business of life Samuel Johnson defined. JOHN R. STILGOE is Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape. He plays laser tag in the winter dusk, and he plays...

Author: By Professor JOHN R. stilgoe, | Title: IN THE MEANTIME | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Assassin hones moral acuity. By moral I mean not a value derived from the Almighty, but an understanding of human nature distilled from experience, what Samuel Johnson defined in his 1756 Dictionary as "such as is known or admitted in the general business of life," what contemporary judges mean when they speak to jurors of moral certainty. The game alerts players to the potentialities of surprise, and especially surprise betrayal, and betrayal is part of the general business of life, even undergraduate life at Harvard. In Assassin, not a stranger but an acquaintance or friend becomes stalker, raptor, assassin...

Author: By Professor JOHN R. stilgoe, | Title: Why Not Assassin? | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...what Council President Noah Z. Seton '00 called "the wild and crazy Sam show," Samuel C. Cohen '00 presented four bills...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Swiftly Tackles Long Docket | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...events of and leading up to April 19, 1775 have been all but imprinted in our minds since we were in elementary school: The signal from Boston's Old North Church--"one if by land, two if by sea"; the midnight rides of Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott to warn the countryside that "the British are coming"; and, of course, the rebel militia at Concord North Bridge who fired at British troops after the "Shot Heard Round The World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Patriots Day Fever | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

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