Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stated that these burglaries "have led first-year students to call for increased security measures in the Yard." Other victims have taken "the University administration to task for not doing enough to make students aware of the security issues surrounding Matthews and other Yard dorms." However, it seems as though many of the burglary victims have forgotten the cardinal rule when it comes to preventing robberies: lock your doors, especially at night. Harvard oftentimes may seem like a bubble disconnected from the rest of the world, but is in reality easily accessible to the urban streets of Cambridge. Common sense...
...subdued, subterranean chain restaurants in Loker Commons really do more harm to the University's image than, say, the recent Harvard Institute for International Development scandal in Russia, or perhaps last spring's New York Times article depicting undergraduates as unhappy, desk-bound losers? It would seem to me nothing could enhance Harvard's image more than a bold headline proclaiming, "Harvard Students Happy!" So why such resistance...
Some students are obviously taking the war very seriously--Robert C. Hughes '01, an Adams House resident, said his friend on the Pforzheimer Council of War isn't speaking to him--but most seem to view it as all in good...
...throw his hat into the ring. Next year's presidential race looked like it was going to be the most thuddingly boring event in United States electoral history since--well, the last presidential election. Poor Al Gore nor George W. Bush. They're both qualified, but that doesn't seem to matter much anymore; they don't have nearly enough scandal in their lives to cause national uproar. But Warren! He's slept with more women than Ron Jeremy and pissed off more people than Jesse Ventura. Sure, he's probably another Reagan--a glamorous personality, absolutely no idea...
...Which is why the recent flush of movies geared toward men that seem to have fewer guns and more thought has been terrifically surprising. Fight Club, in particular, has gripped preview audiences with its maze of guy angst. (Since when have guys had angst? Girls patented angst.) The story of a charismatic anarchist (Brad Pitt) who starts up a group of men who beat the crap out of each other for fun, drawing in yuppie men chucking their grey flannel suits for a life of chaos. Other yuppie violence movies have stirred the male psyche recently - American Psycho and American...