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...absorb the mass killing of April 16 without scars. But as the students and townies here returned to classes and volleyball and walking their babies and dogs, they were, to borrow from a poet, "making the best of their way back to life/ And living people, and things they understand." Yet how strange to pass suddenly from the year-end thrill of a spirited campus to the horror of a mad gunman, to the glare of the global media and to blinking back toward something familiar. "And I don't think it's going to be any less strange anytime...
...PEOPLE, LOCKED IN THE BASEMENT OF their dankest impulses, don't know they're bad. They think they're the good guys in a world that can't understand them, and must be punished for that mistake. Villains see themselves as victims. Actors in these roles are obliged to locate the ache or delusion at the core of the character. "The danger of playing a villain," says James Franco, who as Harry Osborn has been one of Peter Parker's nemeses in the Spider-Man films, "is that you ham it up and it becomes silly." Plausibility counts...
...brought her sexual assault case before the Ad Board, in a 1999 issue of the student magazine Perspective.Another interviewee, asked what the administration could have done better concerning her case, said, “Everything. I’ll say it again: everything...the administration doesn’t understand when something like this happens to a student.”Catherine Shapiro, the secretary of the Ad Board, said the board’s procedures for dealing with peer disputes have changed since 1999 to make the system “timelier” and to give students...
...such as “reporting in a culturally competent way.” She said the school was looking for “journalism that reaches for untold stories and that is courageous and steps out there despite negative feedback from the public that is still trying to understand the role race plays in America.” Two other recent awards honor Gates’ work. On May 24, Gates will be presented with the National Arts Club’s Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in African and African American Scholarship, according to Dell M. Hamilton...
...have an abortion think that this caused their breast cancer when there is absolutely no evidence that it does,” Bernstein said. Jeffrey Kwong ‘09, vice president of Harvard Right to Life (HRL), said that while the HRL supports scientific research to better understand the effects of abortion, he finds a flaw in Michels’ study: that 93 percent of the women were premenopausal. “This means the period of study is too short to determine a link between abortion and breast cancer,” Kwong said...