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...Since then, Lanre-Amos and Gawlik have been practically inseparable. Both are on the men’s heavy-weight crew team (Amos is the coxswain). Most nights, they double-bunk. They always try to spend “every spare second” together. This past summer, Lanre-Amos lived with Gawlik’s family in Frankfurt, Germany while working at a lab. Her trip included a two-week stint with his parents even before Gawlik arrived home...
...goad me into action,” Rakoff says.To convey its tone, he cites a YouTube clip of his favorite depressing song. The video sets images from the Great Depression and the First World War against Bing Crosby’s rendition of “Brother Can You Spare a Dime?” Though he finds the song “surprisingly applicable” to the looming economic recession, Rakoff is more upbeat about the recent electoral turnaround in Florida, claiming to be overjoyed. He’s a resident of New York City since...
...Riina was on his way to exterminating the rest of his rival clan when their American relatives and associates - including members of New York's Gambino family, of whom John Gotti, the infamous dapper don, was a member - intervened on their behalf. The ruthless Corleone leader was convinced to spare the remaining Inzerillos in exchange for a pledge: neither they nor their offspring would ever again set foot on Sicilian soil. A top Palermo investigator summed it up to me this way: "One part of the clan was decimated, the other part was exiled...
...tide us over Harvard would be in real trouble of becoming—forgive me—just another university. ’Round these parts, we’re taught never to settle for being below the fold, and that true greatness requires a well-timed announcement. Spare the press release, however, and you’ll spoil the whole damned week.Adam Goldenberg ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. His column appears regularly...
...academics. That the Faculty traditionally blows off the January meeting is hardly a justification for canceling tomorrow’s important meeting. Students are required to be on campus during reading period, and to ask for less responsibility from Faculty—which cannot even afford to spare an hour—seems hypocritical. While professors may have come to expect that January meetings will be skipped, we believe that this pattern of irresponsibility should be stopped. If the faculty wants to take its role in determining University policy seriously, then it should go ahead with its scheduled meetings, even...