Word: visitations
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...During his time at the Lampoon Conan O’Brien told Burt Ward, the man known for his role as Robin in Batman, that he represented a security firm retained to protect his Robin costume during Ward's visit to Harvard. By masquerading as a security firm O’Brien stole the costume, allegedly one of Ward's few sources of income, and took it back to the castle where members of the Lampoon repeatedly tried it on until the police forced them to return it. But at 6’5” O’Brien...
...Twelve,” when he was still in high school. Now, seven years later, the novel is being adapted for the big screen. In the meantime, he reported for Time and Harper’s from Iraq and Sudan, wrote two more novels, and found time to visit the Harvard Bookstore last week to read excerpts from his recently published third novel, “An Expensive Education.” FM separates fiction from fact and finds out if the author is as bad-ass as his spy characters...
It’s been a rough start to the year, what with the loss of hot breakfast and that full week before classes. Feeling down, FM decided to visit Annenberg to remember a time when we also had hopes and dreams (also, for the hot breakfast). We surveyed some freshmen about their expectations of Harvard; they revealed that the “I’ll-explore-Boston” delusion is alive and well, the mere prospect of meeting a professor is exciting enough to warrant three exclamation points, and that it’s not worth even...
...Take the Dalai Lama episode. The opposition DPP invited him to Taiwan in order to put Ma in a spot - he'd be damned by his own people as a mainland lackey if he did not okay the visit and condemned by Beijing if he did. Ma took a gamble: he approved the trip - and bet on China's leaders appreciating his dilemma. They did. Their censure was directed solely at the DPP, with no mention of Ma whatsoever. Far from harming cross-strait relations, the Dalai Lama's visit revealed how mature those relations have become...
...Palo Alto native chose to leave her hometown for Cambridge, much to the chagrin of her friends back home, who had hoped to continue to watch her play in California. Evans, however, knew Harvard was the right choice after her official visit in October of last year, when she met the coaches and other players. Evans, a prospective biology or bioengineering concentrator, felt Harvard would give her a better chance to focus on academics...