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...Johanna McGeary, who wrote the cover and spent a month traveling through South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe, the hardest part was breaking through the walls of stigma and silence that surround the disease. "It was excruciating to keep asking, 'Do you know why you're sick? How did you get AIDS?' I've covered wars for a long time, and you always feel like a ghoul when you try to record the facts and emotions of someone else's tragedy. But in one way, this seemed worse, because everything seemed so hopeless. In war, you can always tell yourself that...
Benjamin I. Rapoport '03 is a physics concentrator in Lowell House. His inaugural cartoon for The Crimson appears in today's paper. A staunch believer in brevity, he hopes his drawings speak above the roaring sea of print that will surround them. His cartoon will appear on Tuesdays...
...relatively free and often eccentric place. "The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable" was Oscar Wilde's timeless description of the hunt scene, and it is impossible, as always, to better Wilde. If a bunch of aristocrats want to get dressed up in pink suits and silly hats, surround themselves with packs of beagles and go cavorting around the English countryside blowing horns, trashing hedges and chasing foxes, then who am I to stand in their...
Harvard researchers have found what they call the most compelling evidence yet for the existence of black holes and the "event horizons" that surround them, confirming with actual observations a result predicted 86 years ago by Einstein's theory of general relativity...
...ancient Greek philosopher Isocrates said that the greatest loyalty any counselor could show a prince was to be frank and candid. It is more important for a prince, said Isocrates, to surround himself with those who disagree with him than it is to rely on those who echo his point of view. "Frankness is a virtue in a counselor," Isocrates wrote, "who must risk the ire of princes foolish enough to be offended when contradicted...