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...friend cracked a joke, and I doubled up laughing on a snowy street in Moscow. "I wish I could smile the way you Americans do," he said. I asked why he couldn't. He said he'd been trained by his parents never to show emotions in public. A stray smile could be misinterpreted, could mean the Gulag. I realized then that my reaction to his joke had been a political statement - a reflexive demonstration of my freedom. I thought about that when the laughter began at Columbia University on Sept. 24. I wondered how quickly it took Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
When the Harvard women’s volleyball team travels to Dartmouth this Friday, sophomore Katherine Kocurek may recall some unpleasant memories. Last time Kocurek played in Hanover, New Hampshire, she tore her meniscus and sprained the LCL in her knee after diving into the bench for a stray ball. Kocurek, an enthusiastic 5-foot-11-inch libero, takes pride in sacrificing her body for her team. Unfortunately, one of Kocurek’s greatest strengths, her hustle, turned into a weakness as she was forced to sit out seven matches last season due to injury. “Having...
...Today, Locke's narrow, dirt paths, stray cats and precariously-leaning buildings conceal a secret: Locke's identity is changing. Today, only 12 of the 80 residents are Chinese, with whites and Latinos having gradually replaced the founding population. On weekends, most visitors are leather-clad bikers who stop in to grab a steak and beer at Al the Wop's, one of Locke's two restaurants...
...chief representative of Harvard from the comments she makes as a private academic. For this reason, we believe that the president of Harvard, when speaking in her role as the representative, should constrain her public comments to issues that directly impinge on the University and academia and not stray far from these issues into potentially hazardous territory...
...escaped the police dragnet. "You knock on a door late at night and whisper, 'Let me in, brother.' People willingly help us, even though they're well aware of the dire consequences." Still, the regime is doing its best to prevent further unrest and capture any stray dissidents. Trucks full of hired thugs patrol major street corners in Rangoon. The U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Burma, Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, says he has received reports that some of the arrested activists are being tortured. Buses to Thailand, where many dissidents fled back in '88, are being searched...