Word: thins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book lurches into motion when a thin, anguished white woman staggers from Armstrong Houses, a black housing project in Dempsy, N.J., her palms red with lacerations and glittering with fragments of glass. The victim, Brenda Martin, is stunned and nearly speechless, but Lorenzo Council, a sympathetic black detective whose position in Armstrong seems to be part mayor, part padre, gets her to tell her story. She was carjacked by a black man, she says. Would she like to talk with a woman detective, Council asks, meaning, was she raped? No, something worse: her four-year-old son Cody was asleep...
...most important aspect of the weekend, however, is the opportunity for expression the weekend gives to artists within the Harvard community. Events this year range from On Thin Ice and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra to "Unintentional Arson" and "Drill Performance and Trick Rifle Maneuvers...
...made things that do horrible things to my face." He calls the Mach3--the first razor with racing stripes--his proudest achievement. It's not just the third blade, he explains. It's that they staggered the blades so each is progressively closer to the skin, dipped the ultra-thin blades in the same carbon that computer chips go into to make them stronger, and--here's the really big deal--made the blade pivot from the bottom, not the middle, forcing shavers to use it like a paintbrush. They also applied for 35 patents...
Harvard has not always been so aloof to the cause of the patriots. Like those of Massachusetts, Harvard's ties to England were stretched thin in the 1770s and by 1775 had snapped. Samuel Eliot Morison '08 recounts in his seminal 1936 work Three Centuries of Harvard how "on April 19... six scholars marched off with the Minutemen" and in a footnote proudly points to the fact that only 16 percent of Harvard graduates were on the rebels' list of Tory sympathizers. The campus itself--which according to President and member of the Class of 1790 Josiah Quincy's bicentennial...
Emily R. Von Kohorn '00, an ECHO staff member, said the event was intended to make a statement against "all the societal pressures, for women especially, to stay thin...