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Lately I have begun to doubt whether we will ever see the old system of ordered choice, and that's a shame. But we must work within this unchangeable constraint as we try to make Harvard's houses the most comfortable communities possible...

Author: By Hillary K. Anger, | Title: Short Housing Memories | 12/4/1992 | See Source »

...supportive and are not going to discourage me from taking time off because they have seen how much of my life I have put into this. Also, for them, they have devoted so much time and money to see me get to this point that it would be a shame for it to just end. They want it just as much...

Author: By Aparajita Ramakrishnan, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: The Art of Dance Reborn at Harvard | 12/3/1992 | See Source »

Gregory J. Lopez '95 said, "It's really kind of a shame...It's a Harvard tradition and it's the only place around here to get a decent egg cream. So now the egg cream is officially dead here...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: TOMMY'S LUNCH, A HARVARD INSTITUTION, CLOSES ITS DOORS | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...claims to be. He was the dark eminence in Rice's first chronicle, Interview with the Vampire, and his monstrous self- fascination has taken over succeeding narrations. Lestat is something of a windbag, alternately luxuriating in the dark perfection of his sin and then writhing in rather stagey shame for his moral awfulness. This foppish introspection fogs the early chapters of the present novel. But just before the reader's eyes glaze over, the willful and impulsive Lestat tangles with a mortal con man whose extraordinary psychic powers let him cheat the vampire out of his demonic, enormously powerful body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: . . . And One With Vanity | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

...third anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 54th commemoration of Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass, when Nazi street gangs left the nation's synagogues and Jewish businesses in flames and nearly 100 dead. The remembrances of these moments of national euphoria and historic shame mix uneasily -- never more so than this year, when the echoes of that distant event drowned out those from the recent past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreigners, Go Home! | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

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