Word: ward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lorrayne S. Ward '03, a Crimson editor, lives in Canaday Hall...
...what's brewing here? Tea once was regarded as a bitter-tasting second choice to coffee by most Americans. But in the mid 1990s, interest perked up when studies suggested that the drink, particularly green tea, can ward off some cancers, packs a wallop of vitamin C and even boasts fluoride for the teeth. A Harvard study this year found that a cup of black tea a day cuts the risk of heart attacks by 44%. What's more, caffeine freaks, jangly from coffee's finger-in-the-socket jolt and drop, are coming to appreciate the smoother caffeine boost...
...DANGEROUS FRIEND by Ward Just. A well-meaning American sociologist arrives in Vietnam in the mid-1960s on a quasi-official mission to help prop up the civil government. What follows is a small, tense drama that foreshadows the wartime tragedies that lie ahead. Knowing how reality turned out makes this fiction not a whit less engrossing or enlightening...
Lorrayne S. Ward is a first-year living in Canaday Hall...
...also says she was taken to a psychiatric ward and detained there until the next day, while her family and neighbor were arrested and charged with felonies. (The story says the charges were subsequently dismissed...