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Alixandra E. Smith
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End of the Road
Sitting in the Kirkland dining hall last Thursday, I divulged to a friend (with barely repressed excitement) that I would
Hollywood Blackout
It has been 50 years since Edmund H. North, then a young member of the Writers Guild of America (WGA),
Money Talks
With the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill finally up for debate in the Senate next week, the nation's attention has
Not Easy Being Green
In a presidential campaign where the candidates were often criticized for being virtually indistinguishable from one another, there was one
Pardon Me Please?
Former president Clinton swept out of office last month in a whirlwind eerily akin to the one he deposited on
Taking the (Web) Test
In the cold light of a slushy Boston winter, the first reading/exam period of the new millennium is finally drawing
Packaging the Presidency
Ahh, wintertime. In our materialistic society, 'tis the season for conspicuous consumption. As the leaves crunch underfoot and the air
Only Ourselves to Blame
Fear not: This column will in no way attempt to lend significance to the sound and fury currently emanating from
Cooking Up A Storm
On Sunday, as the clanging of the radiators shook Harvard students from their sleep with the announcement that another brutally
Barlet for President in 2000
As a pseudo-New Yorker and an American of voting age, public television this Tuesday night should have been nothing less
Rethinking the Abortion Pill
Last Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made the landmark decision to approve RU-486--otherwise known as "mifepristone"--for use in
No Need for High-Tech Courts
Microsoft's carefully crafted appeal of the federal antitrust case decided against the company earlier this year resembled nothing so much
A Maligned, but Useful, Service
PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J.--Flipping through Time Magazine last week, I came across a headline that jeered, "Who Needs Lawyers?" The story
When Women Are At Stake
History does repeat itself: once again, the Anti-Federalists are dictating American legislative policy. From within their hallowed chambers, the Rehnquist
All Quiet on the Financial Front
The late-breaking news on Friday read like a series of dispatches from the front lines. There were horrified first-hand accounts
