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...Someone overheard someone in the crowd saying "I think maybe content is making a comeback," and that's something I really liked a lot. It's because there are so few people thoughtfully addressing an issue, and these four men are not pundits--they're men who think in long paragraphs and very long and complicated ways, and my experience in New York was that a lot of people were hungry for that...
...rate, personality matters most. Or does it? C. E. Ted Wright '01 claims, "Behind perhaps a mask of academics, there are plenty of people who are easy-going, interesting, et cetera." Despite overheard cries of "What men?!" and "I wish I were a lesbian because there are no guys here," (conceivable alternatives) most Harvard women will concede under pressure that there are attractive men somewhere on campus. After some prodding, men will admit likewise about the female classmates. So why do students have such trouble finding and maintaining healthy relationships, when in so many other aspects of their lives these...
Hoover ordered telephone taps that he hoped would tie King to communist conspiracies. Disappointed with the results, the nation's official blackmailer then bugged the Washington hotel room where King was overheard having noisy extramarital sex. "King is a 'tom cat' with obsessive, degenerate sexual urges," gloated Hoover. It is an odd comment coming from a man whose own unconventional private life was one of the FBI's top secrets...
...roommates are the people they know the best--and the people they like the best too, despite the fact that they were randomly assigned. Chances are you would have hated your power-hungry roommate if you knew him from a student organization, or your loud-mouthed roommate if you overheard her in a dining hall, or your grade-grubbing roommate if you met him in a class. But when we live with these people, "power-hungry" becomes "dedicated," "loud-mouthed" becomes "outspoken," "grade-grubbing" becomes "conscientious"--not because we're blind to these people's habits, but because we understand...
...case Harvard needed any more incentive for tonight's game, reliable sources have informed The Crimson that a B.U. player was overheard saying that the Terriers would easily defeat the Crimson when the teams...