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...four o’clock in the morning, while pouring over midterm notes and beginning to realize that they are incomprehensible, some Harvard students might wish that reality was just in their heads. Our ivory tower experts say that this wish may be a distinct possibility...
...prospect of a humanitarian crisis is not lost on Chinese officials, who find themselves trying to engage North Korea while at the same time walling it off. Above Dandong sits a watchtower whose stone battlements are silhouetted by the dying rays. The tower is one of the first outposts of China's Great Wall, remnants of which wind up and down the hills leading to Dandong. Now China is building another wall, a fence along its entire border with North Korea. But even when that structure is complete, it seems unlikely that Beijing will pay much more than lip service...
...shirt, and Carhartt’s, don’t assume he just got back from the Outing Club’s kayaking trip—that was last weekend. This Saturday, the Peet’s aficionado will load up his Volvo with kegs for the PfoHo Bell Tower rager. He doesn’t live there, but they share a New York Times subscription...
...candidates' only debate was Thursday night, and it was a near-perfect distillation of their parties' national messages. Pryce opened by reminding voters of what her clout in Washington had meant to the district - a flood wall for West Columbus, a new tower for the airport, a veterans clinic - but within two minutes was warning of al Qaeda's threat to kill 4 million Americans. "This is a threat that we will live with until we defeat the terrorists," she said. "The central front in the war on terror is Iraq." Kilroy framed the election as a referendum not only...
...artist Michael J. Mure ’09 could lose $132—and Harvard Square will almost certainly lose a longtime landmark—when the Tower Records music store on Mt. Auburn Street closes this winter. The store has sold two dozen of Mure’s CDs over the past six months, and he was expecting payment in September. But in August, Tower declared bankruptcy for the third time in its 46-year history. And on Saturday, a liquidation company, the Great American Group, bought Tower off the auction block. “Everything from inflation...