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Sue Meng
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Our Better Selves
With pre-frosh weekend around the corner and the last two weeks of classes just beginning, I have started to wax
Rethinking Diversity
It’s an interesting time to be a columnist these days: with war abroad, the threat of SARS infiltrating our borders
The Linguistics of War
Knowing that this column may appear on the eve or morning of war makes it hard to write about anything
The Poet-Activists
Poets are the new pundits. As the debate over Iraq mounts, verse more than ever is the genre of choice.
A Modest Proposal
As part of the merry band of seniors who still have a Core to go (in my case, Science B,
Imaginary Lint
On average, Harvard students will probably attend 10.5 interviews before they graduate. Not that this is an official number, by
What Is Possible
I came across something the other day that struck me: an essay by Joyce, on the subject of epiphanies. He
What Is Possible
I came across something the other day that struck me: an essay by Joyce, on the subject of epiphanies. He
The Gossip Column
I am a celebrity junkie. My favorite magazine is Vanity Fair, I occasionally make forays into Entertainment Weekly and, in
A Tale of Two Cambridges
Last semester I was on hiatus over at the other Cambridge, the one where pants are referred to as trousers
The Cost of a Living Wage
Perhaps it was the euphoria still trickling in from Harvard-Yale, perhaps it was the unseasonably high temperatures, or perhaps it
United We Remember
This past Sunday was the annual New York City Marathon. As helicopters flew overhead and police barricaded street corners, painful
The Vanishing Life of the Mind
Once upon a time the summer after senior year meant packing a Volkswagen and driving cross country with three of
A Breath of Fresh Air
Terry Gross, host of National Public Radio’s long-running “Fresh Air,” switched hats Friday afternoon as she fielded questions from a
