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...generally agreed-upon turning point in the incident--the point at which the attacks escalated from lighthearted water-splashing into violence and sexual assault--was when a young woman who'd just been splashed playfully lifted her shirt and flashed the crowd. People in this city are too politically correct to say it outright, but many New Yorkers I interviewed for stories on the attacks implied it: This girl was to blame. In that brief, careless act--or so the train of thought goes--she single-handedly tipped the balance of the male spectators' conception of women...
...through your first year and find your place on campus, you can look forward to seeing your home in a new light upon your next return. As is often pointed out, it takes a trip away to make you appreciate what you once found familiar. If you are coming to Harvard from the West coast or overseas, you will learn to appreciate those old friends who make an effort to stay in touch, who take the time to check in with you and to update you on all the latest happenings back home. As visits home appear scarce, you will...
...revolution. He towered over me and confounded me, teasing everyone and calling me "girl" and cackling in the dining hall without an inhibition in the world. I drank in their confidence and self-assurance. When I walked back to the Yard late that afternoon I looked smugly upon the other first-years, who didn't know anyone and who looked confused when I said I had spent the day in Eliot ("Is that one of the Union dorms?"). They were still struggling to establish themselves. But I had a connection, a built-in community, a dining hall where I didn...
...configurations, the one a countercultural enviro-saint and the other an old Nixon gunslinger, the two now, oddly, working the same side of the economic street - would bring authenticity, a depth and passion of thought, to what will otherwise be dimensionless debates, turning, as in the past, upon such fatuities as "I paid for this microphone!" and "Where's the beef...
...them into the forms you want. Nanotechnology is, by contrast, bottom-up: stacking individual atoms into useful shapes. We know that the bottom-up approach is possible because that's what biology does, assembling proteins from individual atoms and molecules, putting them together to form cells and layering cells upon cells to form large, complex objects such as sperm whales and giant Sequoia trees...