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...central theme: in a modern time of crisis, people are more likely to stop and stare than try to help. This point is apt, and never more applicable than now, the era of YouTube, in which one man’s recorded misfortune becomes a complete stranger??s entertainment. In “Cloverfield,” the camera-wielding character often had no plausible reason to be filming, but Romero brings that decision to the forefront in “Diary.” At one point, the protagonist even stays behind in a zombie-infested hospital...
...greet the beautiful spring day. Faces pressed against the glass—not unlike those Garfield dolls suctioned-cupped to a car window—a group of camera-toting, map-clutching tourists were trying to peer into my room. Apparently, they had decided that peering into a complete stranger??s room at 10 o’clock on a Friday morning would be a good way to see how Harvard students live. I felt like a fish in an aquarium, except I doubt fish feel violated. Before I launch into my diatribe, I’d like...
Beltran is not the only student who insists that the process of cleaning out a stranger??s bathroom is relatively painless in light of the perks...
...many cases, Harvard departments look to people they know and trust. Johnson, for example, is no stranger??he graduated from the college and, in the early ’90s, taught here as a graduate student and post doctoral fellow...
Guilt-free file sharing has finally arrived. But be warned—between exhausting a stranger??s Bjork collection and finding true love, iTunes has made the library the new KaZaA, minus the shady legal qualms. What was once a procrastination device for the dorm room has now expanded to even that most hallowed of study spaces. I guess we’ll just have to learn to discipline ourselves…but first I’m going to finish listening to The White Album. Sorry...