Word: coldness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Much to their chagrin, the Crimson has weathered the storm the past two years. Harvard has emerged victorious in its last two contests with the Big Red on the road, snapping an 0-5-1 cold streak at Lynah...
...only words that registered were "not guilty," drummed out again and again, 24 times by the time the last defendant was fully cleared. About 140 miles to the south, in New York City, where the killing took place, where it was deemed too explosive to hold a trial, a cold, dull rain deepened the numbness brought on by the news. Anger could muster only brief marches through the Bronx neighborhood where the shooting occurred. One man raised his infant son in the air and pointed to the color of the child's skin. "Shoot him now!" But mostly...
Everyone knows the taste of sweet and sour, but what do hot and cold taste like? According to scientists from the Yale School of Medicine, temperature has its own flavors. Writing in the current issue of Nature, they report that warming the front of the tongue induces a suggestion of sweetness, and cooling it produces a salty or sour taste; chilling the back of the tongue, by contrast, creates a sour or bitter sensation. No one knows if these false taste sensations affect flavor, but experts suspect they are too faint for the brain to discern in the sensory...
Maria Hsia sat stoically as a Washington jury convicted her on five counts of illegal fund-raising Thursday; it's not hard to imagine Al Gore cringing at the news of the verdict. With the economy in good shape, the Cold War a distant memory and impeachment hearings a not-so-distant one, candidate character consistently ranks near the top of voter opinion polls in this year's presidential race. And Gore's connection to the Clinton-Gore Asian fund-raising muddle is one of his most prominent pressure points. While prosecutors argued that Hsia, the California immigration consultant...
...than everyone else and by taking a short one-time break to help someone out, we can realize just how much better we are. But it makes me sick to think that just because we are Harvard students we are above or separated from the rest of society. The cold and insulting nature that Fahrenthold takes toward everyone who is not as fortunate as we are is an extension of the pompous attitude that has come to be associated with Harvard over the years...