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...what would make someone want to join a semi-secret, somewhat silly, glorified tree house, complete with “no girls allowed” signs and bizarre rituals and customs? It’s socially stigmatized, it is not particularly cheap and it probably is not good for your studies or your other extracurricular activities. It is also a bizarre thing to put on your resume, which to some people at Harvard is the measure of all things. What’s more, there is going to be a substantial section of the campus judging you based on what...
...Officer were sent to investigate a report of loud noise at the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. Officers had the occupants turn off their exterior music...
Kadakia came up with the idea for the semi-formal, and student groups from Boston University, Northeastern, Wellesley, Tufts and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute helped plan the dance and shared the financial burden of renting the boat...
...more Marines pull a semi-conscious older man - not the boy's father - from one of the cars. His shirt soaked with blood, he's been shot in the jaw, the lower left side of his face torn apart. Lance Corporal Nathaniel Bitsui, having just tended to the boy's leg, now presses bandages against the wound and tries to get an IV into his arm as squad leaders call for an ambulance. Emitting raspy moans, the man stares beseechingly at Bitsui, who cannot get the needle into the man's collapsing veins. A Marine ambulance arrives shortly and takes...
...fourth place behind the Liberal Democrats and the U.K. Independence Party, but still suffering a big drop in its own votes compared to the last general election. Last week at Labour's annual conference, a forum where Blair usually shines, he had to placate grumpy delegates with a tepid semi-apology for the Iraq war; "I acknowledge and accept" that the intelligence about weapons of mass destruction was wrong, he said, but "I can't, sincerely at least, apologize for removing Saddam." As one M.P. said, "I wasn't inspired" - and this was the kickoff for a general election expected...