Word: things
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is satire that hedges its bets. By the end, Ray and his friends must be heroes as well as oafs; the new neighbors must be villains as well as victims. All of them are "neighbors from hell," but the old residents are revealed to have done the right thing, if for the wrong reasons. And so Dante, like the viewer, is left straddling a white picket fence, perched between admiration and an urge to move out of this neighborhood pretty darned quick...
...much of the past two months, Salman Rushdie has been defending himself and his book. "The thing that is most disturbing is that they are talking about a book that doesn't exist," he said. "The book that is worth killing people for and burning flags for is not the book I wrote." As Rushdie saw it, his book "isn't actually about Islam, but about migration, metamorphosis, divided selves, love, death, London and Bombay." The sad irony, he said, is "that after working for five years to give voice and fictional flesh to the immigrant culture of which...
That attitude about campus security is the only thing that will prevent Harvard from providing a safer work environment for faculty, staff and students. The Science Center is a Harvard facility, and the University has a responsibility to ensure that working there is safe, particularly since it is the only study area with 24-hour access...
Although it is unclear whether the changes in this year's housing lottery will increase diversity in the residential houses, they have demonstrated one thing: students have little influence in decision making at the College...
Generations of Harvard men and women may come, and generations of them may go, but one fact remains constant: admissions officers insist there is no such thing as a "typical Harvard student...