Word: westing
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...blue: It's only temporary. The on-going Widener construction has blocked an exit and the blue line will take after-hours bookworms out of the library via the backroads--through the Staff Lounge (which Mitchell reminds are "not open to patrons"), past the photocopying area and out the West Exit into the Yard. Bon voyage...
...alternative to the traditional church and steeple thing, the Quaker Friends Meeting (5 Longfellow Park, off of Brattle St., 5 blocks west of Harvard Square; 876-6883; Wednesday 8:30 a.m and Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.) offers new ways to explore spirituality. The Quakers emphasize peace and participatory worship. The center welcomes the Harvard community and offers courses on bible study and Quakerism and hosts discussion groups for undergrads...
...Harvard I sometimes forget about sacrifice, American idealism, true freedom. The self-important attitude of the place kind of does that to you. But when I'm at home in my New York mountains, with my brother who's a West Point cadet and my father who didn't go to college but served twice in Vietnam as a Marine, nothing seems more important than defending those things. Maybe I've just got a sentimental attachment to my brother's "Duty, Honor, Country" and my dad's "Semper Fideles." But I think it's more than that. In June...
While Wirzbicki asserts that conservatives aren't socially isolated on campus, I can't remember the last time I saw a card-carrying member of the NRA hanging out with a hippie or seeing Professor Harvey C. Mansfield and Professor Cornel West having a cold one at the Grille...
...involve a version of the virus never before seen in the Western Hemisphere. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that its review of the outbreak ?- identified at first as St. Louis encephalitis ?- has determined that at least one of the deaths was caused by the West Nile virus, found only in Africa and Asia. Like the St. Louis version, the virus is carried by birds and transfers to humans via mosquito bites. "Although it?s never been identified as a cause of disease here, that may be because it wasn?t specifically checked," says TIME medical correspondent...