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Because you see, the other night, I saw "Unknown White Male," the remarkably incisive documentary debut by British director Rupert Murray concerning his friend Doug Bruce who suffers total amnesia on Coney Island. And his amnesia is "total" in every sense of the word. While he retains most of his so-called semantic memory (his knowledge of language and places), he can’t remember his job, home address, birth name, family members, or any aspect of his past life...
...came anyway. He hoped for the best of his undergraduate experience, but as he had feared, it didn’t meet his expectations.After unofficial living accommodations were made for him in one of the upperclass Houses, he decided to move off-campus and join an unknown number of transgendered students who remain virtually invisible to students.All of his transgendered friends have experienced at least verbal abuse because of their gender identities. But it’s not the harsh words that get to him. It’s the fact that Harvard doesn’t provide institutional protection...
...Harvard was a dream,” he explains. “But at this point, I don’t want to make that decision right now. If I do end up somewhere else, and I’m really happy, is it worth uprooting myself for the unknown?”And then, of course, there’s always the fact that Cheek stands at the pinnacle of his former sport. Having reached the Olympic awards podium twice in February, Cheek is retiring at a time when he is one of the best speedskaters in the world.So...
...home,” Pepper wrote. Former Currier House Committee (HoCo) President Jonathan C. Bardin ’06 brought several paintings to the House following a Carpenter Center exhibition last year, according to Currier House Master Joseph L. Badaracco. But the origins of the famed Elmo are unknown, he added. “It was not on loan from the Fogg, however,” Badaracco wrote in an e-mail. “Before the color, all we had were long stretches of soul-destroying, institutional white,” he wrote. When Elmo was stolen last month...
...company had previously expressed surprise at the pipe's leak, but in the wake of the Department of Transportation fix-it order, BP admitted that an earlier inspection of the pipe had revealed numerous weaknesses that were, for unknown reasons, rapidly worsening. The federal order was also noteworthy because BP had previously tried to argue that the federal government had no jurisdiction to oversee the pipe in question...