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...contribute to an American understanding of European tradition of thought at a time when clearly misunderstandings between Europe and America are quite threatening seems to be an important task to undertake,” Rosen said. A 16-year veteran of Oxford, Rosen will not be a complete stranger to Cambridge, Mass., either, where he was assistant professor of philosophy at Harvard from 1981 to 1982. After returning to campus for brief visits in 2004 and 2005, Rosen said yesterday that what has stayed the same—the atmosphere of the Yard—is more striking than what...
...satirical mood. Sometime in the 1990s--David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest makes a handy point of reference for weary travelers-- the earnest, rock-hewn realism of the Raymond Carver school gave way to a more fluid, molten hyperrealism. The widespread conviction that truth has become stranger than fiction triggered a kind of strangeness inflation, an arms race of exaggeration, wherein novelists satirically augment and amp up and overclock their fictions in an attempt to keep up with the sheer implausibility of real life...
...board member reads every single statement, and we try to build a membership with a varied background and varied levels of experience with wine,” Ford writes.While second-year law student Bryce S. Klempner ’00 joined the club just this year, he is no stranger to the social benefits of wine. As a co-founder of an “underground port club” at Leverett House, joining Vino seemed like the logical next step. But Klempner says he has “little experience—more than none, but not much more...
...Tringali. “In my hall, people used to open the door for random guests. And I never see security around.” Susan B. Marine, director of the Office of Sexual Assault, said that it is rare for a student to be sexually assaulted by a stranger, like in this case. “85-90 percent of the time, the victim knows the perpetrator, at least as a friend or as an acquaintance,” Marine said. A 25 year-old Lesley graduate student, Molly A. Rigsby, said that she usually has class until late...
...Quincy’s game. “Last year we slept in Adams dining hall for a couple nights.” In the past, participants have targeted not only each other, but actual intruders. In 2000, a Pforzheimer resident used a dart gun to hold up a stranger he found outside of his suite, believing that he was participating in the House’s annual game of “Gotcha,” according to an article published in The Crimson. Harvard University Police Department spokesperson Peggy A. McNamara told The Crimson then that police...