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...last week, the What Is To Be Done, which attempted to answer the ever-present question of how Harvard students can fill their spare time on this campus, is now dead...
...setting down, in music, what amounts to speculative autobiography. This record has the brutal immediacy of a diary kept by someone who cannot look away from the truth. Magic and Loss, largely inspired by the death last year of Reed's friend, the superb songwriter Doc Pomus, uses spare instrumentation and simple language ("The same power that burned Hiroshima/ causing three-legged babies and death/ Shrunk to the size of a nickel/ to help him regain his breath") to stare down mortality and peek into the abyss. The title says it best. The subject is loss, but the music, dark...
Baker went on to earn a masters degree, and in the fall of 1987, he joined Harvard's athletic staff. In his spare time, he serves as a trainer for the Boston Blazers, a professional Indoor Lacrosse club...
...case, the nation cannot afford to waste good candidates. There are not so many to spare. Look at what the country has in the way of candidates. For that matter, look at what the country has in the way of Presidents...
...suspects in the past decade were especially decent people who just let their guard down. In interviews with 50 cop killers, says FBI forensic psychologist Anthony Pinizzotto, the agency heard again and again that the victims provided an opening when they took it easy on the suspect. To spare one collar the discomfort of being handcuffed behind his back, for example, a policeman cuffed him in front and let him ride in the patrol-car passenger seat; the suspect grabbed the officer's gun and killed him. Female officers reportedly were tougher on body searches -- and it paid off. Policemen...