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...beginning of Drew’s senior year, Hall unexpectedly resigned as Head of the Academy, and David Aloian took her place. His experience included not girls’ but boys?? schools, such as Exeter and Belmont Hill. Among those from whom he sought advice, Drew was one of the most useful in explaining quirky customs and rituals such as “Tripe Night”—the threat of serving tripe instead of turkey at Thanksgiving dinner, the savings to be donated to the poor—and alerting him to the surprise party...
...greater reproductive abilities. Translation? Dudes with lower voices might get more girls. FM set out to confirm this study, using a more familiar tribe. Fifteen female students listened to four equally handsome hunks try to get in their pants via a voice recording, and then attempted to match the boys?? pictures to their sultry tenors. 60 percent of the ladies matched the deepest voice to their personal pick for the hottest hunk. “What can I say? I need a man with a man’s voice,” says Phoebe Stone...
Although Daniel Radcliffe fans will disagree, “December Boys??—while easy on the eyes—lacks the originality to make it noteworthy. An adaptation of Australian author Michael Noonan’s eponymous text, the film chronicles coming-of-age trials in a familiar light. And while director Ron Hardy gracefully treats the convergence of childhood ideals and adulthood disillusionment, the final package is debilitated by scattered characterization. The movie opens at the chaste, jejune scene of an Australian orphanage home to four self-named December Boys (for their birthdays) linked...
...hostage to the ways of the past. Black students find their identity as Harvard students questioned by everyone from police to fellow students. Low-income students find themselves shut out and priced out of student life. Women find their social lives dictated on men’s terms, in boys?? clubs...
...dinner in his village in southern Sudan one night in 1987, John Bul Dau had a premonition that something was amiss. Several hours later, he awoke to the sound of gunfire and bombs going off as government troops raided his village. Dau, one of the “lost boys?? of Sudan, spoke to an audience of about 30 in Harvard Hall last night, telling stories of his flight from war-torn southern Sudan, his travels in East Africa, and his emigration to the United States. The raid that displaced Dau occurred in the midst of the Second...