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...time the lights dimmed. T-shirts, some silkscreened at home, grew dark under arms and in Roschach-looking blots at the smalls of their backs. Pants slung low by hands buried in pockets gripped waists, made tight by hands turned to fists with anticipation. Shoes (All-Stars, slip-ons, ankle boots, and Asics), well scuffed by summer shows, fidgeted.It was Tuesday night. The bartender downstairs at the Middle East winced under the weight of a crate of Pabst. She passed cans back through the crowdlike buckets in a fire brigade. Tabs opening and sips slurping, the sound of thirst-quenching...
...students. It’s really up to undergrads to make their social experience,” says Corker.Apparently, nobody has told the freshmen that they need a student center before they can have a good time. This fall, the Yard has been full of fun: an impromptu slip-and-slide, nightly showings of a midnight marauder (the 11:50 man), and bizarrely competitive bean bag throwing contests. All this, without a student center.If there was ever a time for students to reclaim their social potential, this is it. The money has just come in. The momentum is building...
...exception to that rule is the sleek and smoothly menacing Frank Langella, playing the founder and chairman of CBS, William Paley. It is quite wonderful to watch Langella slowly, slowly slip off his velvet gloves to reveal the mailed fists of media proprietorship. In those passages the movie achieves the melodramatic intensity--and a certain sophistication about the uses and abuses of power--that is nowhere else evident...
What HFAI is now doing is affording more disadvantaged applicants an opportunity to slip through the cracks in a class wall erected over hundreds of years. Much of that wall remains intact, at least on the inside, and even if it doesn’t keep them all out anymore, the divisions it fosters certainly don’t help them fit in once they’re here...
That’s assuming, of course, that Harvard can rally from behind. On Saturday, the Crimson fell behind against an opponent that demanded four quarters of top-notch play, and Harvard’s slip-ups, miscues, and fragmented offense just didn’t meet muster...