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...capsule review of Purple America by Rick Moody (author of The Ice Storm, which was made into a critically acclaimed movie) would seem to condemn it as an example of this type of writing: Billie Raitcliffe has a thing for men who work with radioactivity (personality tic) and a degenerative muscular disease; her husband just left her and she asks her son to euthanize her when her illness gets too severe (societal problem; two, if you count the separation). Hex, her son, has to decide whether he can shoulder the burden of caring for his mother alone (societal problem) even...
...last night of reading period, no one needed a famous band to bring hordes of students out of their dorms. Nor was it necessary to hand out free alcohol or to haul in giant inflatable office supplies. Just hours before exams, hundreds of undergraduates defied every Harvard stereo-type, converging on the Yard for the Primal Scream. There is no longer any secret about how to attract a crowd. As we can see, it's all about naked people...
Without randomization we would see a more segregated House system, but there is one crucial difference between this type of segregation and pre-Civil Rights segregation. That difference is one of power. The segregation that revolutionaries of the 1960s sought to put an end to was based on exclusion from resources, motivated by the desire to maintain power over another group. To this end, a significant number of white Americans used their power to deny black people the freedom to choose where they went to school, what jobs they held and where they lived...
Actions such as this appointment make me want to disown Harvard. This is the only letter of this type I have ever written; may it be the last. JOHN L. ADAMS '50 Sarasota, Fla., April...
...Entremed Inc. had risen tenfold to over 80 in the first moments of trading, news anchors were breathless, and cancer patients were speed-dialing their doctors -- all on the strength of an article in the Sunday New York Times touting the "two new drugs that can eradicate any type of cancer...