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Then, in one fell swoop 150 Harvard students and affiliates descended silently into the pit kids' domain--their community center if you will--in order to express their moral outrage at an assault on a Harvard student that was being investigated as a hate crime. The terrible spectre of an invasion of skinheads onto campus loomed out of the dark recesses of Harvard's collective imagination. The kids with the tattooes, with the shaved heads or green hair--they were the target of the protest, they were the skinheads. Or so Harvard to all outward appearances agreed...
...schizoid investor psychology. On one hand, investors do not believe the market can sustain a rally--so as stocks near their previous highs, sellers charge in early to beat the crowd. But investors don't see a big downdraft coming either--so as stocks approach their previous bottoms, they swoop in to bargain hunt before others get there. Everyone is playing the trading range, which gets narrower with each reversal...
...Pioneers is not an anthology to kick back to and enjoy from beginning to end in one fell swoop; for hard-core fans looking for favorite tracks and hard-to-find singles in a neat little 2-CD case whose design recalls memories of your elementary school ruler with the moving dinosaurs, however, this anthology will not entirely disappoint...
...grinding halt. As spring formal season kicks into high gear, we’re still kicking ourselves for not scoring an invitation to the Senior Soiree. Redemption comes in the form of the fabled Keezer’s Dodecathlon: attending all 12 house formals in one fell swoop. The last person to attempt this Olympian feat drowned in an abyss of mixed punch and remixed pop. It can be done: provided you mind your...
Easter would be the worst possible time for federal agents to swoop down on a Little Havana home to take away a young boy many in that community have likened to Jesus. But while it may not happen this weekend, the U.S. government has now sent the unmistakable, and perhaps irrevocable, message that it is saddling up a posse to retrieve Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives and reunite him with his father. First President Clinton on Thursday stepped up to the plate for the first time with an unambiguous call for boy and father to be speedily reunited. Then...