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...Head of the Charles: 1. Weekend in October devoted to a big crew race, when college and prep school students descend on Cambridge to get drunk. Your roommates will invite total strangers to drink beer, heave and pass out in your room. 2. A good weekend to skip town...
...above all (this being America), commerce. Meanwhile, our more adventurous neighbors are starting to install digital TV "set-top" peripherals, from WebTV to ReplayTV and TiVo, that allow them to surf the Web onscreen, interact with programming, store TV shows on hard discs or even--horrifying to broadcasters--skip all those commercials...
...Under the direction of department chair Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., who was appointed in 1991, and with the support of President Neil L. Rudenstine, the department has built a $40 million endowment and a "Dream Team" of Faculty members...
Cobb County, Ga., May 11, 2000. It's a Thursday morning, and 18-year-old "Karen" and five friends decide to go for it. They skip first period and sneak into the woods near their upscale high school. One of them takes out six rolls--six ecstasy pills--and they each swallow one. Then back to school, flying on a drug they once used only on weekends. Now they smile stupid gelatinous smiles at one another, even as high school passes them by. That night they will all go out and drop more ecstasy, rolling into the early hours...
Rudenstine is credited with recruiting a "dream team" of famous Afro-American scholars to Cambridge, including DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West...