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...were secrets when he had published at least one of them in a book? Burrell, looking more confident than he had the day before, said the pressure of the inquest and the intensity of Mansfield's questioning had confused him. (With his quick-fire interrogation and his reedy, disdainful tone, Mansfield is a cross between TV detective Columbo and Harry Potter's Professor Severus Snape.) "I didn't know what I would be asked," the former butler said. "I thought it would be easier than it is. Quite frankly, it's been horrid...
...Excellent music choices and clean and well-rehearsed footwork made the numbers by TAPS consistently entertaining. An easy-to-watch, smiling stage presence clearly conveyed how much fun the dancers were having. They set a lively tone for the evening with their company number, which Megan M. Powell ’08 choreographed to Lily Allen’s “Knock ‘Em Out.” The dancers executed the choreography with enthusiasm and exhilarating precision, an impressive feat for a company piece...
...Crimson’s seniors.The Crimson will then face Yale and Princeton, traditionally the team’s toughest league competition, in a tri-meet over the first weekend in February as its final tuneup before the Ivy championships.“[The Penn meet] sets the tone. We’ll work on the little things until the championships,” Pangilinan said. “We’re just focusing on the last two meets of the season.”—Staff writer Kate Leist can be reached at kleist@fas.harvard.edu...
...would (in some cases they already do) hold substantive conversations, enabling one another to see things differently: encouraging students to see their time at Harvard more expansively, encouraging advisers to understand the world of our undergraduates in new ways. Harvard is an intimidating place. Large introductory classes set a tone of anonymity and unaccountability...
...started as a fairly straightforward adaptation to enable a suspicious taste, smell or appearance--like that of vermin--to trigger the impulse to eliminate the source. We may have then generalized that reaction to ideas. "When someone says something you disbelieve," Harris says, "it has a kind of emotional tone. Rejecting someone's statement as illogical or incompatible feels like something...