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...Harvard we pride ourselves on the diversity of our student body," said Samuel C. Cohen '00, vice president of the Undergraduate Council. "But I don't think it's any great secret that many of the groups we're involved in don't reflect that diversity...
...Samuel A. Sheridan '98 started smoking after high school when he worked on a merchant marine ship...
Auctions are strange activities anyway. Sotheby's invented them in 1744 when a bookseller named Samuel Baker wanted to live better. Since then they have grown into wonderfully weird hybrids of culture and capitalism. In movies like North by Northwest and the Marx Brothers' The Cocoanuts, where Chico bids against himself, they are accurately portrayed as miniworlds of crookedness and anarchy. Brawlers compete in cool frenzies of acquisitiveness...
...Paul Attanasio, adapting an old Michael Crichton novel, is ragtag and cranky. The chief credential of its psychologist (Dustin Hoffman) is a report on how to handle alien encounters, which he admits cribbing largely from sci-fi tales. The biochemist (Sharon Stone) is a pill popper. The mathematician (Samuel L. Jackson) is a cynic, the astrophysicist (Liev Schreiber) is twittily lusting after a Nobel Prize, and the team leader (Peter Coyote) needs to try a little tenderness. In short, the possibilities for amusing dysfunction are potentially larger than we usually find in movies of this kind...
...Howell is survived by seven children, Nicholas Jordon of Minneapolis, Samuel Howell of New York, Aaron Howell of Medford, Eli Howell of Eugene, Or., Ned Raugust of Concord, Sarah Howell of Framingham and Eve Howell of Boston; a brother, Tony Raugust of Minneapolis; and a granddaughter...