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...victims were carrying out the banal tasks of everyday life, their last unremarkable moments juxtaposed with the killer's lightning brutality. Officials speculated thatthis could be a terrorist attack but searched in vain for any overt political message. The victims, if they were lined up side by side, would roughly resemble a random sampling of the Washington metropolitan area. They were white, black, Hispanic, Indian, male, female. There was a government analyst, a landscaper, a housekeeper, a nanny...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 agrees, having sent a letter urging incoming students to “slow down” for the past two summers in what he acknowledges is a fairly vain attempt to get Harvard students to change their habits of a lifetime. Unfortunately for Lewis, the second law of thermodynamics that everything gets colder (and thus slows down) does not seem to apply at Harvard—undergraduates whiz around, never properly pausing for breath, let alone stopping. He acknowledges as much in an e-mail message, explaining...
...other city I go, I see the same hos.” Tillery’s life, though, is less problematic—at least for now. By the end of the night, he will have been nearly brought to tears by a Tom Cruise look-alike, tried in vain to hitch a ride from the Quad to the Yard with a guy he will drunkenly refer to as “the delivery man,” and even resorted to relieving himself on the sidewalk of Garden Street. But this is now, and right now, life is easy...
...music,” she explains. The Quincy scene at 10:30 is mellow at best, despite the incessant and spurned invitations from the classy hockey jocks of room 605 (“Laaaadiiiieees, come on in!”). Fortunately, the trip to Quincy is not in vain, as it yields the company of two older men, Michael B. Firestone ’05 and James W. McPhillips...
Like Saddam, Tony is a bad dude. In each of the past three seasons he has killed his own people for personal gain. He starts turf wars. He betrays friends. And he corrupts all those who come in contact with him. Again, like Saddam, he is vain, selfish, and prone to violence. And most relevantly these days, Tony has found himself on the wrong side of the U.S. government, a fate over which he and Saddam could commiserate. They are both liars, philanderers and thieves, yet we love Tony and we hate Saddam...