Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sesame Street jam, I am beginning to appreciate the psychological factors that drive people to commit violent crimes--the fatigue, the desperation. I eye Sunkist boy's kneecaps. I envision what it would look like to shatter them with a crow bar into many tiny pieces. I suspect that such an act will harm my chances of successfully becoming a VJ, but at this point I don't give a damn...
...gawk at shooters (although one dropped into the gutter, remembering a VES 107 digression on curbstone height versus body shape). Raptors find too many easy marks, too many undergraduates who never sense who follow them, who stalk them down to the laundry room; raptors who know how little undergraduates suspect their fellow students, their friends. Above all, the game alerts its players to betrayal by someone known to them. Detecting betrayal, or at least discerning its possibility, makes for painful, wearisome learning, but given what I know of undergraduate life in my 25 years of teaching here, and especially given...
Assassin offers a different slant of light, the different light that reveals facets of character other-wise hidden, that jolts alertness. Some undergraduates--mostly male I suspect--love the game, and I am glad they do. So long as the Republic requires young men to register for compulsory military service, its universities must necessarily support the skills on which its freedom depends, and a bit of Assassin leads players to remember the primacy of infantry. But undergraduates who enjoy the game grow familiar not just with action and masquerading but with betrayal and protection from betrayal, and in time join...
...about whether the game assassin has a place at Harvard. The Freshman Dean's Office and the masters of Lowell House have banned the game on the grounds that it encourages stalking and surveillance of fellow students while making it more difficult for campus police to differentiate between truly suspect persons and overzealous assassins running around in all black with painted plastic guns and Nerf darts. Given the recent thefts in the courtyard of Mather and assault outside of Langdell Hall, such concerns have been given more weight than ever before...
What's taking this murder investigation so long? Apparently, Boulder district attorney ALEX HUNTER is going to great lengths to rule out all other suspects on the theory that by proving everyone else innocent, he can close down paths the defense lawyers for JOHN and PATSY RAMSEY might travel. Says a source within the investigation: "Anytime the Ramseys name a suspect or a piece of evidence that they think could prove someone else committed this crime, we have to check it out. If we can eliminate it, then that helps prove that an intruder didn't commit this crime." Hunter...