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Several first-years unfamiliar with Harvard buildings said the rain made finding classes harder...

Author: By H. NICOLE Lee, | Title: Rainstorm Dampens Campus | 9/24/1994 | See Source »

Hiking the heights of the Northeast proved to be better spent in communication than in solitude. Our debates raged on everything from godless religion to national health care. Gorp (Good 'Ol Raisins & Peanuts, for those unfamiliar) breaks tended to be welcome punctuations. All our food, and even the iodized (and sometimes not) water, was drooled over...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Dispatch From The Rattle River Trail | 9/16/1994 | See Source »

Quite simply, it's just easier to be a liberal at Harvard. As a first-year, you'll find yourself in unfamiliar surroundings, anxious about your academic future and your social life. Being conservative is just another thing to worry about, another hurdle to jump. Most people will say that it's not worth the trouble. But fighting for what you believe in is always worth the trouble...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: And Watch Out for Commies! | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...Polish composer Henryk Gorecki, on which she was the soloist, became the most unexpected classical crossover hit of all time, landing on the British pop charts in 1993. Now Upshaw has another unlikely triumph on her hands: a new album called I Wish It So, which consists of mostly unfamiliar theater songs by Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dawn Upshaw: The Diva Next Door | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

...hubris of vision to mistake the unfamiliar for the unprecedented. What happened on Jupiter was obviously massive, but comparisons are impossible. What little we know about the universe includes the fact that it is an incredibly violent place. The nighttime sky is a panoply of explosions. The pocked and cratered face of our moon -- which was also on TV last week, thanks to a triumphant moment everyone had seen 25 years ago -- bears mute witness to eons of shuddering collisions. Given what we may infer from such signs, the pummeling of Jupiter could have been a commonplace affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking At Cataclysms | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

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