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...that would have been too goody-goody. What is it Montherlant said? "Happiness writes white." Good characters - I think he's plenty vivid, but they don't quite live on the page the way monsters or semi-monsters...
...prank e-mails sent Saturday night appearing to be sent by the puerile minds of The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, claimed to announce Harvard’s next president. The paltry rehash of a former hoax sparked momentary confusion in the student body...
...outcry. That intervention was late and ineffective, but this time Rafsanjani is moving more quickly and aggressively to defuse tensions with the West. The former president has been meeting with MPs critical of the President, and issued a terse and rare reprimand after a recent presidential speech. Official and semi-official media have joined the effort to curb Ahmadinejad, with two prominent newspapers in the past month running editorials critical of the President, calling his foreign policy obtuse and ordering him to stay out of diplomacy over the country's nuclear program. Even Baztab, the conservative news website connected with...
...Hamden, Conn.“We’re frustrated, but when you look at the league, we did just play the one, two, and three teams,” captain Dylan Reese said. “In my mind, we outplayed two of the teams evenly and were semi-even with the other team.”Harvard will return to the ice against Union this Friday night at the Bright Hockey Center.HARVARD 2, QUINNIPIAC 2A hard-fought tie sounds oxymoronic, but the Crimson will take it given that Harvard rallied from a 2-0 deficit against the Bobcats.The...
...1830s, evidence began to accumulate that the extended solitude was leading to emotional disintegration, certainly in higher numbers than in communal prisons. In 1890 the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in, deploring solitary confinement for the "semi-fatuous condition" in which it left prisoners. The case was narrow enough that its effect was merely to overturn a single law in a single state, but the court's distaste for the idea of solitary was clear. "The justices saw it as a form of what some people now call no-touch torture," says Alfred W. McCoy, a professor of history...