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...seventh unbroken generation of their family's male line; 40% of this year's intake have an Old Etonian father, uncle or grandfather. The most searing moment in Fraser's book is a testament to the underside of the intense human relationships the school can foster: a sinister, semi-erotic punishment for a minor infraction inflicted by the then headmaster, Anthony Chenevix-Trench, who, alone in his study at night, tipsy and sobbing, slapped Fraser's bare bottom with his hand 10 times...
...Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent. I think for a weapon like this, even outliers or wannabes among the world's jihadists would probably do a check-in with the al-Qaeda leadership before they used something that would be viewed as a weapon of mass destruction...
...funded and planned. The results promise to continue improving what can reasonably be called an expanding “social scene” at Harvard.Perhaps the year’s greatest success sprung from the year’s greatest failure, Wyclef. The Harvard Concert Commission (HCC), a semi-autonomous wing of the UC, had planned to bring Wyclef Jean to perform on campus during the first week of November, but sluggish ticket sales compelled the HCC to cancel the show less than a week before it was scheduled. By backing out, the UC lost $30,000 in fees...
...Senior Class Committee made history this spring when it declared that a staffer of the Harvard Lampoon is actually funny. (OK, that’s a low blow.) Elizabeth S. Widdicombe ’06—a member of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—will deliver the female Ivy Oration, the more humorous of the senior speeches, at Class Day exercises today. It’s clear that Widdicombe’s wit has already won over her friends...
...tailgates, “Anything But Clothes” parties, and meaningless one-night hookups. At Harvard, however, students complain that the outlets for those primal urges are limited. There are Final Clubs for the few who are suitably adept at drinking wine and eating cheese. There is a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine for the few who can fit in the cookie-cutter shape of the publication’s officer core. But for the majority of Harvardians without access to these institutions, a new forum has provided...