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Handcuffs, lipstick, lingerie, a straitjacket, a martini glass, and a naked woman have conspicuously snuck onto the cover of a science book. Something is afoot.Looking at the fluorescent assortment of seemingly random images on the jacket of Harvard psycholinguist Steven Pinker’s “The Stuff of Thought,” one gets a sense of what to expect from this charming and provocative investigation into language.For its author, language is a reflection of our conception of the world—and, consequently, human nature.Fittingly, Pinker uses cultural references, sexy verbs, and toilet allusions to describe...
About ten minutes in, a few students wearing Eliot House T-shirts snuck into the room and asked, “Did someone here order thirty delicious sexual pies?” before dropping off three fruit pies with Biggs...
...difficult conditions...I am proud of how [Harvard] performed.” LOYOLA MARYMOUNT 3, HARVARD 2 It took three weeks and a trip across the country, but at last Harvard lost its first game of the year. Loyola Marymount, the invitational tournament’s host, snuck past the Crimson, 3-2, in the Friday afternoon matchup. With Harvard trailing 2-0 in the 62nd minute, Akpan connected with junior Michael Fucito, who was positioned in the middle of the field. Fucito detonated a 25-yard blast that nicked the cross bar on its way into...
...Slattery and his family evacuated to Oxford, Miss. and watched the events unfold from the TV in their hotel. After a stop in Tennessee, the Slattery family took refuge in Houston, and Tommy and his father snuck back to New Orleans to salvage what they could from their home—one of the few that hadn’t been flooded. By this time, Slattery had waited too long to transfer to other schools, holding out hope that Tulane would reopen for the semester. The only schools that Slattery knew were still accepting students were Harvard and a Panhandle...
...that Arellano herself is the ideal figure to rally around. Yes, her son was born here and therefore is an U.S. citizen. But Arellano had already been deported once, years before she ever had a child (she snuck back in after her first deportation a decade ago). Arellano's ambitions to work illegally in the U.S. predate her status as a fugitive mother who only wants to be with her citizen son. Her case and her cause have also at times been handled inartfully - the aggressive use of her young son as a mascot for the movement at times bordered...