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Admittedly, this column only adds to the stream of post-Littleton opinion pieces, but my purpose here isn't to try to explain the events but rather to encourage us to examine the instincts that may draw us to these pundits. The sort of knee-jerk analysis practiced in the past two weeks simultaneously gratifies and disturbs many of us. On the one hand, many of us have a powerful instinct to both seek and supply grand, sweeping and satisfying answers in the wake of tragedy. Immediately following a dramatic national or local event, at the time of greatest emotional...
...hallways. "They call 'em dirty, say stuff like 'Why don't you bathe?'" says a student. Often it is the athletes who dish out the abuse. Haakon Espeland, 14, switched out of Brooklyn's Fort Hamilton High, where he was one of the "freaks." The reason he fled: a stream of abuse, starting on his first day at school, when "all these huge people beat on me, basically for being there...
...Each sentence, at least, for readers with stretchier imaginations, does manage to stand on its own--it is the sentence that follows which makes no sense. While each stanza begins with a hint a plot (at times reassuringly contained in quotation marks), its thread is soon lost in a stream of inside-joke-like surreality, such that one imagines the Vivians must be quite bright and also quite tight, in both senses of the word. And before long referents are slipping, definite articles are caught in the most inappropriate positions, and "It was just their pot luck. 'Oh well, Laure...
...student spirit. Some posters, usually ads for sketchy shared apartments ("Seeking female roommate who loves rottweilers"), psychological experiments ("Are you manic-depressive?") or surveys at the Dental School ("Free Root Canal!") tend to stay up for decades. Others have half-lives around 40 minutes, like advertisements for the endless stream of speeches given by political has-beens, or the even more endless stream of a cappella jams with names that never get old--including "Jambidextrous," "Jambivalent," "Jamnesia," "Jamaica," "Jamputation," "Jamphetamines," "Jamniocentesis," "Jammonium Hydroxide" or "J&" (Jampersand, in case you didn't get it). Campus posters are something like little slices...
Rudenstine says Harvard would like Congress toestablish a trust fund-a stream of money separatedfrom the Medicare funds and earmarked to bail outteaching hospitals...