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...David A. Sherwood '95, a transfer student fromColumbia who concentrates in computer science,says Harvard's computers are "very slow" incomparison with those he used at Columbia...
...system is so slow here," Sherwood says."The main systems crash all the time. They areoverloaded...
...Lincoln in Illinois was one of three plays to win Pulitzer Prizes for author Robert E. Sherwood during a five-year span. (The others were Idiot's Delight, a 1936 comedic outcry against the forces breeding World War II, and There Shall Be No Night, a 1940 tragedy about the invasion of Finland.) A commercial success, Abe Lincoln ran more than a year. For its time, an era of patriotic fervor verging on hagiography toward national leaders, it is daringly candid...
...discreetly, the mental problems that beset Lincoln and his wife. It acknowledges their marital troubles. It describes Lincoln as lazy, lacking in ambition, needing prodding to seek office. It depicts him as ideologically cautious and passive, resistant to reform, hesitant even to take up the abolitionist cause against slavery. Sherwood was echoing the populist message of Frank Capra's contemporaneous films, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: the only hero to trust is one who doesn't want the job. But Sherwood was also humanizing an outsize figure, pointing out that nobility does not require...
...Hanging lamps shaped like roosters and fish. Dark. Chicken tostada with beans, rice and a lettuce and tomato garnish and a glass of water. The restaurant was populated not by undergraduates, but by youngish looking folks who may well be graduate students. The menu, with long passages entitled "Dan Sherwood brings you a taste of old Mexico" seemed desperate to convince you how great your food was going to be. My tostada did not live up to the hype. Leaving aside the issue of my underachieving tostada, the main factor preventing Casa Mexico from becoming the next hot student hangout...