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...Webster's social pecking order, these kids are rock bottom. "We are definitely the outsiders," says junior Adam White, 16. "Not a whole lot of the 'popular' people give us the time of day"--a generalization confirmed by popular senior Adam Wise: "I don't know how to put it...but they...
...blackmailed must struggle to shape for themselves normal, fulfilling lives. At the center of the play is Carter, the mastermind of the nefarious scheme, played with passion and subtlety by David Modigliani '02. Carter is the only character to have profited from the blackmail scandal, but Modigliani is wise enough to show that his success and power are as much mental creations as they are facts of reality, and they are capable of being shattered at a moment's notice. Vinnie, Carter's less fortunate partner in crime, is harder to get a handle on. He is pathetic and clever...
Walking Chipper Jones after Williams' double was understandable. And walking Brian Jordan to set up a force at any base would, in any other situation, be a wise move...
...fast and large-scale response is telling of Harvard's location in one of the best-protected areas, fire-wise, in the country...
...suggest that Helfer would be wise to expand his sample size. Such casual empiricism is not warranted in light of available evidence. In 1954, 41 percent of adults in the U.S. thought that smoking is one of the causes of lung cancer, compared to 66 percent by 1964. Similarly, awareness has increased over time of the link between tobacco use and 25 or so other diseases. The causality is not rationally challenged today. In the '50s, however, the harmful effects of smoking were certainly not, as Helfer glibly declares, widely perceived...