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...warns The GoldenChild (Christopher P. Lambert ’03). Tony Montana (Clinton L. Graham ’04) seconds him, shouting, “About to explode!” As game organizer Sinner Man (Matthew H. Espy ’03) blasts his own personal HALO theme song, the players assemble on two couches, gleefully talking trash...
...notable theme of many of the displayed books is the extent to which a particular alphabet or language is rooted in nature or natural phenomena. For example, a 1776 French treatise on alphabets argues that letters come from drawings of objects in which their sound plays a prominent role. The author shows the French word ‘matre,’ then a picture of a mother figure. That picture is stylized until it is transformed into the Chinese character for “mother”—a process that demonstrates how the capital letter...
...survey indicates that just half of depressed students actively seek counseling. While this number is up from the last survey, conducted two years ago, it still reflects the existence of significant barriers to therapy and treatment. Despite the recent emergence of depression as a commonly addressed literary and cinematic theme, an irrational and persistent stigma about receiving treatment remains among Harvard students. Important to the administration’s response will be both an effort to evaluate this stigma’s role in the effective treatment of student depression and an investment in finding ways to combat it. Education...
...time to think hard. It will be hard to avoid it in the coming week, as Take Back the Night kicks off on Sunday with a Rape Aggression Defense class, whirling through a week-long series of varied events with sexual violence as the uniting theme. The week, and the spirit of awareness and positive change it represents, is a triumph and a minor miracle. But for me it will be long and filled with unpleasantness. There will be the daily sight of t-shirts bearing testimonials in the Yard, the appearance of new ones and the lengthening...
DIED. MANNY HARMON, 93, Big Band leader who was a fixture of G.O.P. conventions from 1956 to 1992; in Century City, Calif. He prided himself on knowing the tastes of G.O.P. leaders--such as Ronald Reagan's favorite song, the theme from Doctor Zhivago. Asked about his political affiliation, he replied: "I belong to the Cocktail Party...