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...spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherised upon a table …” And I thought, ‘damn, this is really good.’ So I bought the book and I read the whole thing cover to cover maybe a thousand times. After all, I didn’t have that many poetry books...
...urge everyone to put aside their individual concerns for an afternoon and head down to Harvard Stadium this Saturday. In what looks set to be a close and exciting game, the Harvard football team deserves our support. It would be fantastic if ten thousand men and women of Harvard could turn up tomorrow to lustily cheer on their school. Our football team merits nothing less...
Twenty-five thousand people came—from the mountains, the prairies and across oceans white with foam—to wake up before dawn in the legendary city that never sleeps. And under the glowing canopy of a cloudless sky, having shaken off the chills of a perfect autumn morning, we swept across the starting line of the marathon in a sea of adrenaline. As we crossed the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge the glistening harbor opened before us, with the familiar figure of Lady Liberty, torch uplifted, presiding over that famous gateway of opportunity. And yet to thousands who looked...
...When you’re working in the Harvard context, it can be so easy to get things rolling,” she said. “We’ve heard all the pickup lines a thousand times: ‘What house are you in?’ ‘What do you do on campus?’ Maybe the occasional, ‘So, I’m in the Porc.’ When you’re trying to bridge that gap between Harvard students and people outside though, those just won?...
...recent history of Mazar-i-Sharif is extremely bloody. When a Northern Alliance commander switched sides in 1997 and let the Taliban in, they immediately started ordering everyone around. The population turned on them, massacring between two- and four thousand Taliban troops. So when the Taliban recaptured the city the following year, they took a bloody revenge, killing some 6,000 civilians. Everyone had been expecting that once the Taliban were under siege and in trouble, the city would rise up against them, precipitating a bloodbath. With the appetite for revenge in Mazar-i-Sharif, nobody was expecting the Taliban...