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...most priceless prose poems,"The Wolf and the Sheep," Herbert has the wolfexplain to the sheep that he is about to devourthat, "You have no idea how silly it is to be abad wolf. Were it not for Aesop, we would sit onour hind legs and gaze at the sunset. I like to dothis very much." After this irony, Herbertcompounds the effect with a ladder which we allought to climb and then kick out from beneath us:"Don't follow the wolf, dear children. Don'tsacrifice yourselves to the moral...
WILD (AM-1090), a small sunrise-to-sunset station, was able to fill this role in the '60s, as the late J. Anthony Lukas '55, a former Crimson executive, chronicles in his classic book on Boston, Common Ground. In particular, Lukas notes that in the wake of Dr. Martin Luther King's death, WILD suspended its usual rhythm-and-blues format and devoted its hours to news and commentary on the assassination. While numerous black callers pelted the radio station with calls for an end to integration, Lukas' attention is drawn to a white woman from Lexington who called...
...held by 15- and 16-year-old boys, who looted and burned huge swaths of downtown. ECOMOG forces patrolling Freetown's main streets were continually harassed by Kalashnikov-wielding teenagers who slipped from dark alleys, machine-gunned them for 15 or 30 seconds and then slipped away again. After sunset the teenagers, many of them high on local hallucinogens, set houses on fire--night candles, they called them--to ward off the fearful dark...
...currently around 5:30 a.m. University Dining Services can provide students with prepared breakfasts for this repast, but many students say that this year they have been grabbing fly-by lunches or a nutri grain bar. After eating, individuals say the morning prayer. The next daily prayer is at sunset...
Traditionally, Muslims do not break the daily fast alone. In Muslim countries during Ramadan, people from all walks of life gather in mosques and pray together. To recreate this atmosphere for the Harvard community, HIS sponsors a collective prayer every night at sunset in Boylston Halls Ticknor Lounge, where up to 40 undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and community members join for the prayer and dinner...