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Falling in love is, in which case you should head right away to the exotic Cafe Algiers on Brattle St. for mint tea, falafel and Arabian music. Whether you sit outside or in, pretend it's wartime Casablanca. For a more Occidental experience, veer to the understated Cafe Pampiona where you'll want to be seen...
Some time between sunset and moonrise, against a blue-white autumn sky, seven geese head south over the Detroit suburbs. They sweep low by a bowling alley and veer purposefully toward the pond at Hazel Park race track...
...matter what you think of Evans's pomposity and historical inevitability, you've got to appreciate the special perspective he has given the first session of the new student government. At a time when student government is seeking to veer from its ineffectual, do-nothing past. Evans is one of a very few talking in fresh terms. His grund designs for the Undergraduate Council are only a part of his larger conceptual model--for the planet. "I believe in a unification of the planet within in the U.S. system," he says, with all seriousness. "I see it as the only...
...carrying coded messages vital to the proper deployment of the troops. If I am caught, the enemy will try to break the code, but it will not succeed. The messages are written in a rarely used cipher called Multiflex--entailing a lot of Kings write and 38 Veer and 34 Dive and Able Baker Charlie, play-pass, hide the QB, flee-flicker type stuff--which only a small circle of friends known as the Harvard football team can turn into ordinary English. I will never tell the secret. They may torture me, but they will only get name, rank group...
...late 1920s. Most student administrators and faculty members agree with Dean of the College John B. Fox '59 who calls student involvement at Harvard "stunning." Yet participation in students government has been abysmal. Put simply, Harvard classes of class presidents and other high school stand outs traditionally veer away from the government roles they played in high school and often expect to play again...