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...Sunday night, a male undergraduate was threatened at knifepoint at the corner of JFK St. and Memorial Dr., steps away from Eliot House. According to a community advisory released by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) yesterday, the cunning would-be victim, asked to hand over his wallet, gave his would-be attacker the impression that he was about to comply, only to throw his backpack at the ne’er-do-well, knocking him to the ground. According to the advisory, the student wrestled the suspect’s weapon away from him while...
...unidentified miscreant left a taxicab outside Quincy House without paying the fare. Angered, perhaps, by the slighted driver’s protestations, the suspect allegedly stumbled to the House’s glass side-door, shoved someone through it, and went on his merry way. Though his victim wound up hospitalized, the details of the attack remain hazy; interim House Masters Lee and Deb Gehrke, in an email to Quincy residents, wrote enigmatically that, “the full details of the incident are not known, and may never be completely known...
...weepies are descendants of the domestic melodramas of the '30s and '40s, with Barbara Stanwyck or Greta Garbo cast as a strong-willed woman censured by a straitlaced society. In the past 20 years, when women have achieved a measure of equality (except at the box office), the hero-victim has tended to be male, and the affliction has been mental, as in Rain Man, Forrest Gump and A Beautiful Mind. They're the movie equivalent of the orphan puppy that no one will adopt--except you, dear sensitive viewer...
...looks like we are a victim of our own success,” said Nancy Walser, a four-term committee member. “We have a lot of people trying to get into the schools that don’t look like the nine years of students that came before...
...encouraged the use of child soldiers. Beah captured the attention of his audience not only with his opinions, but also with personal anecdotes from his life in Sierra Leone and after, in rehabilitation programs and the United States. When asked by Bhabha whether child soldiers should be viewed as victims or perpetrators, Beah said that the recruiters do not exactly pose the question, “Would you like to join us? Walk around the block and think about it.” A high school senior from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High, Dan M. Glanz, said...