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...acknowledging the contributions of its four players that will graduate after this semester. Caitlin Cahow, Laura Brady, Jessica MacKenzie and Brenna McLean were all honored in a post-game ceremony.Besides Cahow, a member of the United States Olympic squad, the Crimson’s senior class has seen limited action this season in a year where younger players have stepped up to take playing time. But in Saturday’s game, where Harvard rested on a lofty 5-0 lead in the third period, the rest of the seniors got a chance...
...that we are among the first generations to be raised in a society saturated by the mass media (and the often jarring images they convey), and this cannot be understated. How else can we explain our capacity to bear witness to such terrible things without ever taking political action? We seem appallingly able to witness devastating crimes on the television and then go back to pleasant dinner conversation, almost without blinking...
...from worrying about torture to worrying about textbooks, our raised awareness has degenerated into desensitization to violence. Maybe we’ve lost the ability to care in the conventional sense. Documentaries on current humanitarian crises like the genocide in Darfur have been made with the intention of inciting action from the viewers, often falling back on simple shock value. But even that effective activist tool has lost some of its resonance for our media-minded generation: it takes a lot to shock us. We’ve been pushed to a new extreme at which even genuine instances...
...other friends to serve as dancers and vampires. “That was the easiest part,” said Lawson, an actor who is making his directorial debut with the film. “They’re all our friends.” The crew spent two action-packed days shooting the film. “The whole experience was pretty memorable,” said Shirey, who also played Shelly, one of the vampires, and performed as a backup singer. “I guess being there until five in the morning in vampire makeup is memorable...
...Army officials have made it clear they believe they can trim the 15-month deployments back to 12 months even if the troop level in Iraq remains at 130,000 for a period of time. That will give Petraeus and the Bush Administration, which wants to avoid any action that could jeopardize the past year's gains in Iraq, leverage to suspend the pullout for a time. Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island and a former Army officer, asked Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, at a hearing last week if doing that wouldn't break...