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...revere on Easter or Passover or Ramadan, those we fear on Halloween. Thanksgiving was a celebration of harvest, the stuffing of oneself a natural response to all the work that once went into managing one's crops and now goes into managing one's relatives. Just as meals and sleep and work and recess pace the days, so do holidays pace the year. Clump them together, and they lose their fizz and juice, the useful little monthly boosts turned into a pileup of duties and lists. When every day is a holiday--or more precisely, part of the holiday season...
...Force pilot Paul Tibbets Jr. climbed into his B-29 aircraft, the Enola Gay--named after his mother--and dropped the first atom bomb over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Nearly 80,000 people lost their lives that day, but Tibbets never expressed remorse. "I sleep clearly every night," he once said, asserting that his actions--which brought an end to the war--saved lives. Fearful of protesters, he requested that no funeral arrangements be made and no headstone mark his grave site. Tibbets...
Most important, without the switch back to Standard, none of us would ever experience that blissful moment every fall when we look at the clock on a Sunday morning, realize we get to set it back 60 minutes, and settle down for another hour’s sleep. Emma M. Lind ’09, a Crimson editorial executive, is a history and literature concentrator in Winthrop House...
...look back on the weeks of intense sleep deprivation, physical challenges, mental games and manipulation, I marvel at the vibrant, active, and happy college student that was utterly destroyed by the process. For many people who go through this process, the depth of cumulative practical sacrifice (social isolation from their community; loss of time for schoolwork) and emotional investment (enduring verbal abuse, emotional attachment to other pledges, fear of failure) hinders their ability to stop, as it did mine. While many boldly proclaim what they would or would not let happen to them if they ever “pledged...
...Nobutora's customers, a 31-year-old nailist from Shizuoka named Yukari, had no sleep the previous night, having caught the first train in to Tokyo at 3 a.m. The average $3,000 she spends on a visit is almost her entire monthly income, most of it spent on good wine for Nobutora, and a reasonable bottle of shochu for the young hosts who keep her company while Nobutora services other tables. Yukari has broken her own rule of coming to the club only once a month - this is already her third visit this month. And meeting Nobutora, she says...