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...still heavy with the stink of charred wooden buildings and trees, and is lined on both sides with smashed houses and the odd gutted church. Apart from a few desultory looters?just about everything that could be moved has already been carted away?the only human presence amid the utter destruction is a handful of local Muslim men checking traffic for any Christian foolish enough to return...
When The Fellowship of the Ring was first released, literary critic Edmund Wilson assailed Tolkien for creating polarized characters—characters that were either good or evil, and nothing in between. Sauron and his servants are the utter embodiment of evil, with no goal other than to dominate the world under a pall of darkness. Frodo, Gandalf and Aragorn, the protagonists of the novel, have no wish other than to see Middle Earth live in peace and are willing to sacrifice themselves to attain that goal...
celled before as Gilbert and Sullivan’s tragic jester, Jack Point, but Oussama Zahr ’04 makes it difficult to imagine that the part could have been created for anyone else. With a knack for showing utter despair while flashing a bigger smile than a hopeful at the last punch event, he is the driving center of the most entertaining Gilbert and Sullivan show in recent Harvard memory...
...love of my Mommy and Daddy’s life,” she says, noting her parents’ utter pride in the fact that their only child is graduating from Harvard. “I’m the first person in my family to graduate from college. I’m gonna be one of those people with eighty people at graduation.” And they’ll be cheering her on the entire...
After the Warm Fuzzy Debacle, I basically abstained from participating in the standard, forced social interaction events of early freshman year. But more importantly, I became suspicious of other Harvard students. Seeing the utter vacuity to which some could stoop for even the most insignificant of goals, I began to mistrust anyone who would even casually accost me. Often such interactions would uncover a networker red-handed, as I watched their interest wane with satisfaction as I divulged my concentration (“Physics?! What do you do with that?”). I’d be damned...