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...houses of Harvard College. Judging from the fact that each college was treated with such circumspection and discretion, one might have guessed that they were written by a joint committee representing the admissions office and various masters' offices. A tired litany of "diversity" and "uniqueness" soon put any casual reader to sleep...
...tenacious reader who read every word, the superficiality of the analyses failed to debunk any of the widely held negative images of certain houses. The writers of The Crimson seem to suffer from a misconception that it would be a mistake to say anything which might make waves. Those of us who pay to read this newspaper, however, read it in the vain hope that it will tell us something we would not learn from the other more self-interested branches of the Harvard Corporation...
...succession of zealous but nonviolent splinter groups, that was seized at last by a charismatic and combustible leader. The son of a single mother, Koresh was born Vernon Howell in Houston in 1959. Growing up in the Dallas area, he was an indifferent student but an avid reader of the Bible who prayed for hours and memorized long passages of Scripture. He also played guitar -- not badly by some reports -- using rock music as well as his magnetic preaching to recruit followers. Some of the spartan interiors in the Waco compound were decorated with posters of the wild man rock...
Although the reader has freedom to choose whatever route he or she wants, said Eco, the text places limits on these choices by making certain routes more "reasonable...
These gaps, aside from sparing the reader from a slow and detail-burdened story, also free the reader to make his or her own narrative choices...