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...Perhaps the experience of evacuating from your dorm, leaving your friends, resettling in a new location, and creating a new normal at a school that has had to rebuild itself cannot be explained as neatly as would befit a news story or a two-year timeline. Some memories are inscrutable, and some experiences are indelible. “Harvard was a blessing out of a terrible, terrible thing,” Slattery explains. “[Harvard] has been a positive force in my life.” But Katrina...
...what makes the best of these shows effective is that they are no more about being female than The Sopranos was about being male. That is, they are about that, thoroughly, organically, but not exclusively. (The shows befit the era of Hillary Clinton, who has enough political and personal backstory that--if she were a drama lead--her being the potential first woman President would be only her B or C plot.) Their women, like most women, like most people, have other things to worry about...
...It’s a one-game season for us,” said senior wide receiver Ryan Tyler. “Yale’s a big game, whether it’s a championship or whether we’re 0-9.” As befit Senior Day, it was the Harvard veterans making crucial plays on both sides of the ball against the Quakers. Tyler had 11 catches for 177 yards to accompany Widman’s trio of scores, and linebacker Ryan Tully had three tackles for loss and a 15-yard sack.The Crimson needed...
...environs of Lowell Lecture Hall placed yesterday’s drama in a theater that seemed to befit the magnitude of the event. While Summers’ job appeared more secure heading into the meeting, his ability to effectively govern the University remained—and, indeed, still remains—an open question...
Greene’s sparsely-worded novels befit a particularly easy conversion to film—almost too easy. “Part of the attraction of translating fiction to the screen is the fact that it is all there,” Wood says. “I think that actually creates a problem because a movie is a director’s vehicle. You find that a [more suitable] novel will give the director license to do [what he creatively innovates...