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...usual crowd is made up of travelers taken by the sheer spectacle of the place. I don’t know, maybe it’s all the brick. Tourists come into the office asking what it is that they, as tourists, should do and should see. Because the newness of Harvard Square wore off for me some three and a half years ago, when questions like these are batted my way I tend to remain all silent stares and lethargic shrugs...
...will have to be there a very long time, and casualties may happen, but even the suicide bombers know something about which targets aren't profitable to their cause. Would we rather wait until the Palestinian suicide bombers, out of sheer desperation, finally show up in Times Square...
Among ordinary Israelis, the clamor to strike back with massive force for last week's Netanya massacre was overwhelming. In recent months, the scale and audacity of Palestinian attacks has steadily climbed, but for sheer barbarism, last Wednesday's assault was unmatched by any other in the 18-month intifadeh. The Hamas bomber timed the attack to kill Jews at the Park Hotel just as they sat down to the seder, a meal that celebrates the liberation of the Jews from the oppression of the biblical Pharaoh. Most of the victims were elderly Israelis. The terrorists plotted the Passover massacre...
John Lithgow ’67 can’t sing. This, at first, might seem to be a problem for a man starring in a multimillion-dollar new Broadway musical. But when that man possesses the megawatt persona, effortless timing and sheer star power of the immensely talented Lithgow, the only problem is suffering through the moments when he’s offstage...
First, Miss Harvard could not be hairy. Due to the sheer length and volume of my leg hair, a lawn mower would have been easier to use than my Gillette Mach 3. The night before the pageant, as I stood naked in the bathtub, warm water running, I watched inch-long hairs peel off into a watery mélange of foamy white shaving cream and occasional drops of blood. I awkwardly maneuvered my body as I shaved the rear of my thighs, only breaking more skin in my futile attempt to be careful and precise. An analgesic layer...