Word: windows
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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does not draw blood, it is perhaps because Trillin, now a New Yorker staff writer, seems to be writing benevolently with his nose pressed against the office window, looking in. For good or ill, satire requires both savagery and familiarity. The amiable Trillin has been away too long to give the shiv a final twist...
...issues, though, remain an investment for the lucky and adventurous. Warns Joel S. Lawson of Howard & Co.: "The initial public offering marketplace is like a window while it is open. But it closes like a guillotine: no warning, a rush of air and silence...
Three decades later to the month, Zhao once again attends lectures in Harvard Yard. Things are different, he says, looking out the window of his apartment in search of a memory of Cambridge in the late '40s. They use more mathematics in economics classes, and the noise in the Square is much louder. And Zhao is no longer studying for a degree. As a member of this year's class at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and the first fellow from the People's Republic, he's come to Harvard for a crash course in the modern world...
CRIMSON EDITORS still play hockey in the newsroom, but nobody plays it quite the way Michael J. Halberstam '53 did. One day in the spring of his freshman year, Halberstam got just a little carried away during a newsroom scuffle, jumped out a first-story window and landed hands-first on the concrete driveway. Re-entering the building through the front door, Halberstam said his hands hurt a little--in fact, he had broken both of them...
There have also been incidents in the Midwest. Earlier this semester two cross burnings occurred at Purdue University in Indiana. One, made of wood, was planted on the lawn of a black fraternity house; the other, shaped of computer cards, was taped to the dormitory window of two black students and set afire. At Ohio's Kent State University, black student organization material on campus bulletin boards was defaced...