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Lighting has been an issue all year, of course, but I write now because I have a new problem to share: the Second Sun is failing. The Second Sun system has been Lowell J-52's secret plan to light its room: turn on the overhead light and the two desk lights in the common room, bring both torchiere halogen lamps out of the bedrooms, and place the halogens in front of the doors. For the piece de resistance, we close the doors to reflect the light and voila!--there is almost enough light to make reading bearable. Months...
...Iron Mask is a puff piece, good for one of those weekends when there's nothing else to do and the quality of the movie is not too much of an issue. DiCaprio plays both the young King Louis XIV, a philandering and utterly obnoxious young man, and his secret twin brother Phillipe. Phillipe has been locked up in a dungeon for the last six years with an iron mask on his face to conceal his identity. When Louis sends ex-Musketeer Athos' (John Malkovich) son Raoul (Peter Sarsgaard) back to war so that he can pursue his betrothed Christine...
...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...
...school-uniforms policy; and sniping over the 1999 budget between Clinton and Congressional Republicans. The LA Times gets a shout out for its continued scrutiny of local and state prisons. And, finally, S's SS believes that the WSJ piece on declassification of dusty government documents -- at a secret CIA facility -- is noteworthy...
...storm is brewing at the U.N. over just how many secret deals Secretary-General KOFI ANNAN may have made in Baghdad in order to defuse the crisis with Iraq. While Annan has insisted that he has no intention of weakening the U.N. Special Commission, the group that is tracking down SADDAM HUSSEIN's weapons, two developments this week have called UNSCOM's future effectiveness into question. First, Annan stationed a special U.N. representative in Baghdad. That will provide the Iraqis with an alternate channel of communications that may circumvent UNSCOM. Second, Annan is seriously considering a Russian proposal that...