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...subject is immobilized, so the elaborate Halloween precautions may have spurred the very attacks they were meant to protect. Back in fifth grade, I used to ride the subway to school every day. Sometimes I would be scared—there were some pretty unpleasant-looking people on the uptown IRT. “You can’t go through life being scared of the subway,” my father would tell me. “You can’t live in a city and worry about crime all the time—it?...
...HARVARD” across its front, in search of a size small. At colleges across the country, hordes of students advertise their school pride on a daily basis: Cal sweatpants litter the Berkeley campus, Chicago beanies protect a multitude of ears against infamous wind-chill, and “Uptown Girl: Barnard College” tees saunter down many a Manhattan avenue. But in Harvard’s case, such sartorial displays of school spirit are less widespread, and seem so much more complicated. An article in The Crimson once stated that people “don?...
...posse head into the subway tunnels, hoping to elude Cloverzilla and get uptown alive. Here's where the movie's one inspiration kicks in. Earlier, we saw the monster shedding parasites that had attached themselves to its hide like barnacles. These dog-size, cricket-faced, crablike creatures can bound like kangaroos, stick to ceilings and attack people without so much...
...what else does he have going on?” As his younger sister Jesse Brown recalls, “When he was eight or nine, he used to say he knew everyone on the Upper East Side.” Coming from this prestigious background, immersed in everything uptown and Manhattan, one of the hardest tasks for Brown was to come to school and actually make something of himself. As a rising sophomore, Brown spent his summer working on the set of “The Departed,” and was such a hit with the cast...
...heap if we don’t live within easy reach of Penn Station. Harvard’s worldly education only seems be preparation for a small handful of U.S. Zip codes.I’m okay with the prospect of never being part of the Ivy-encrusted Uptown elite. I’m okay with being a small fish in a small pond, not the East River. I know that if I do eventually live and work outside of this country, my classmates will probably never read about me in the papers. And for someone arrogant enough...