"We'll get better at stopping the war any day now."

--Amateur guitarist Peter Desmond at an anti-war rally in Boston last weekend.

"I wish they would learn to be polite. I agree with them, I wish they would form form a quiet circle. This just doesn't work in the end."

--Cantabridgian Charles A. Reynolds.

"I'm looking at another generation of Black people gone... I don't want my black men fighting over there for you...In a democracy, from the very beginning, we come over here and freed the Indians, and then we freed the black people, then we're going over there [the Persian Gulf] to free some more people of color. I say, fuck your freedom."

--Lisa M. White '92, a representative of the Harvard Black Students Association, speaking at last Thursday's student rally against the war.

"Harvard is probably number two on Saddam's list--from the bottom."

Sabi shabtai, Los Angeles-based terrorism expert, discussing the chances that the university might be targeted by terrorists.

"There were some rude people in the studio but they were ejected."

--Dan Rather, CBS News Anchor, after 10 members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) broke into the television studio and disrupted the broadcast shouting, "Fight AIDS not Arabs."

Not quite what we wanted--Eastern Airlines went out of business last week, two years after the company filed for bankruptcy after the eastern machinist's union went on strike, and two years after The Harvard Crimson's weather slug admonished readers for several days, "Don't dare fly Eastern."

"your can't mitigate a monster."

--"Gladys P. Gifford, a member of Cambridge Citizens for Livable Neighborhood's Scheme Z taskforce, describing attempts to offset Scheme z--the 11-story highway interchange slated for construction in east Cambridge--with promises of mass transit funds and extra parks.

Talk About Tragic--Intersession plans were dashed and Harvard students were devastated after the exam for Professor Houchang E. Chehabi's course, Historical Studies A-36, "The Rise and decline of international Communism," was cancelled because the University bureaucracy lost the test. "I studied for the exam all last night," said Kelly A Bowdren '94, "and now I have this hanging over my head when I go to Washington D.C. during intersession to interview for summer jobs."

"I'm leaving Harvard because I've found a great opportunity. I've had 14 wonderful years here and I think it's time to move on."

--Dean of freshmen Henry C. Moses, announcing his decision to leave Harvard next fall to become headmaster of the Trinity School, a private school in New York City.

"I told them I wanted to stay at Harvard. Harvard presents major challenges for academic administration and I'm very pleased to part of it."

--Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs John H. Shattuck, explaining why he withdrew his name from consideration for the presidency of American University in Washington, D.C.