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...ROBERT TULLOCH, 18, and JAMES PARKER, 17, teenagers convicted of the brutal stabbing murder of Half and Susanne Zantop, husband-and-wife Dartmouth professors, in January 2001; to life in prison and 25 years to life, respectively; in North Haverhill, N.H. Prosecutors said the killing was part of a scheme engineered by Tulloch to steal $10,000 they needed in order to travel to Australia...
...waiting for the analysis of the literary critics, Baum deconstructs the poem himself. “I used the nonstandard AABBB rhyme scheme because physicists continually encounter the unexpected as they explore the mysteries of the universe,” he says...
With pre-frosh weekend rapidly approaching, one Harvard first-year is hatching a devious scheme. It may seem obvious that the admissions office wants female pre-frosh staying with female students, but apparently this is never explicitly spelled out. This clever first-year, capitalizing on the ambiguity of the situation and what he believes is the gender ambiguity of his first name, has attempted to pass himself off as a female student to host unsuspecting female members of the class of 2006. “Call me S. Vanderweil. No wait, that’s too obvious, call me Stefan...
...feeling a little lucky lately,” Vanderweil says, explaining that he thinks the chances of his scheme succeeding could be very good. Since one of Vanderweil’s roommates—who wishes to remain nameless and chose not to comment—is also hosting five male pre-frosh, there may be the opportunity for some inter-pre-frosh romance, but that is not Vanderweil’s main plan for the weekend. “I just want the girls to play ‘Survivor’ games,” he says, then...
...Decadenza dance is over, but it serves as a reminder of the unfair way first-year women are often treated as sexual objects in the Harvard social scene. Parties—especially those run by University groups—should refrain from using the trite and sleazy marketing scheme of offering discounted admission to first-year women. Of all Harvard’s students, first-year women are already frequent targets of harassment; singling them out and objectifying them at a House dance only reinforces a damaging stereotype...