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...Summers apparently has no such breadth of mind and spirit. And so, with his petty, narrow-minded focus on ideologically constructed concepts like “academic output” and “grade inflation” (some have dared to suggest that a genius like West should stoop to supervise the A-heavy grading of Af-Am 10!), our president may have cost Harvard one of the most remarkable intellectuals...
...characters forced to stoop (not in terms of participating in the play but in their roles) are also fantastic. As Dame Carruthers, Emily Ludmir ’03 spends her entire time on stage doubled over with age, but nevertheless gleefully singing about her love of the torture chamber to great comic effect. And Zak B. Stone ’03, as the hunchbacked assistant tormentor Wilfred, is captivating as the young maiden’s unwanted suitor. How he keeps the leer on his face, all the while doubled over and singing patter songs, is a mystery, but still...
After the Warm Fuzzy Debacle, I basically abstained from participating in the standard, forced social interaction events of early freshman year. But more importantly, I became suspicious of other Harvard students. Seeing the utter vacuity to which some could stoop for even the most insignificant of goals, I began to mistrust anyone who would even casually accost me. Often such interactions would uncover a networker red-handed, as I watched their interest wane with satisfaction as I divulged my concentration (“Physics?! What do you do with that?”). I’d be damned...
...This weekend I walked down from the roof and sat on our building?s stoop, occasionally helping folks who stopped to ask, ?Where?s the World Trade Center?? (Well, two months ago, it was right down there.) There was brisk and heavy foot traffic, mostly parents and their kids visiting Manhattan?s own theme park of death and remembrance. A mother and daughter walked north wearing particle masks. Two women passing them shot them a stern look, as if to say, ?This ain?t no stinkin? biohazard zone,? and the mother turned to argue, then kept walking away. Another family...
...lawyer who chatted up a stranger in a cafe the day after the disaster. "We started talking, and it was only about what had happened, but it was in the context of our personal lives." That night Brown ended up kissing her new friend on a Manhattan stoop. She admits to some lingering guilt over feeling good at a time when people were feeling so bad (enough guilt, in fact, that Brown and others quoted in this article requested pseudonyms). Still, she says, "it was affirming. And I'm really thankful that it happened...