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The Columbine tragedy didn't start out as a front-page story about the battle between good and evil. But it has been moving there, as the trauma overflowed the argument about guns and culture and spilled into other realms. With each passing day of shock and grief you could...
I stumbled upon these quotes unaware the other day. I was cleaning out my desk drawer and found the index cards filled with words. The power of Fitzgerald jumped out at me again, differently this time. Never had I so fully identified with his lost generation, called by the tolling...
After the class of 1872 added a clock in 1897, according to Bainbridge Bunting's Harvard: An Architectural History, "Even the townspeople were beholden [to the building], for anyone who lived within a quarter mile could see the face of one of the clocks and hear the tolling of the...
Shorto's sympathies lie with the movement: a chapter on leftish clerics weaving revisionism into their preaching is far more lucid than one titled "The Case Against." Yet he is at heart a synthesizer. "The trick," he notes, involves doing "two things at once: digging into history with one hand...
For many of the students graduating today, it is most fitting that the Commencement ceremonies take place inside Harvard Yard. Returning to the Yard represents coming full-circle for most members of the Class of 1996. Like generations of Harvard students before them, they began their collage careers inside its...