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...reasons Harvard is such an exciting place to go to school is because it's located smack in the middle of a small city. There is always action going on somewhere in Harvard Square and a variety of good restaurants, movies, plays, bookstores etc. to keep you busy (although New Yorkers might beg to differ...

Author: By Chris W. Mcevoy, | Title: Beantown Bonanza | 11/13/1997 | See Source »

...historic Read Block, located smack in the heart of Harvard Square, will be undergoing major structural changes for the next two years...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Swan Song For the City's Greasy Spoon | 10/29/1997 | See Source »

...populous country speaks, people listen--though it isn't always easy. Jiang Zemin, President of China, gives speeches loaded with fusty rhetoric, like "the primary stage of socialism" and "We will strive unswervingly to resolutely uphold Deng Xiaoping thought." His slicked-back hair, enormous spectacles and cryogenically fixed smile smack of the old-fashioned apparatchik. So wooden a leader is often in danger of being upstaged by his own podium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: MEET JIANG ZEMIN | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...while this incident does indeed smack of the absurd, it also reveals an important insight into our educational system and into our public service systems, in general. This nameless 15-year-old girl has shown us, in a most unusual and simple way, just how big the cracks in our bureaucracy are, and how people can fall through without anyone knowing that they have been lost. Vander Weele, the chief of investigations, understood this and commented, not on the abnormalities of the situation, but on the broader awareness that it has fostered: "There are a lot of forgotten children...

Author: By Talia Milgrom-elcott, | Title: Returning from the Margins | 10/23/1997 | See Source »

...tribute to TV's new season would be complete without mention of the venerable medical drama, "ER." Surely, no premiere was more anxiously anticipated than the much-touted live episode. On this, the morning after, we at Dartboard join you all in your disappointment that an extra didn't smack Dr. Weaver with her crutch...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: DARTBOARD | 9/26/1997 | See Source »

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