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Liam T.A. Ford
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Killing the House System
T HOUSANDS OF ALUMNI converged on Cambridge this week to stay for a few days in the undergraduate houses they
A Liberal Pro-Life Group
"W HO ARE THEY?" "Are they serious?" "Is that a pink triangle on their banner?" "They," the members of Gays
An Open Letter to Neil Rudenstine
Editor's Note: This is the first is an occasional series of open letters to President Neil L. Rudenstine to offer
Let the Community Decide
The staff position cloaks its virulent antireligious bias none too well. Although it feigns agreement with President Neil L. Rudenstine's
The Bee Lie
B ROTHERS AND SISTERS, I'm here to talk about the Bee. Not the semi-secret social club. Not the second letter
Maus II's Provocative Return to Auschwitz
After a five-year wait, comics enthusiasts who don't regularly read Raw, the underground comics' best magazine, can at last read
A Black Mark (et)
S CENE: A Moscow street. Fruit vendors sell ripe pears and grapes to grateful Moscovites out of the back of
Morality is Not Paternalism
H ATE SPEECH; Condescension; Collaborating with Hateful People; Lending My Good Name to an Evil Publication; Paternalism; Being Patronizing; since
Not Just Because God Said So
I cannot presume to speak for Peninsula's Council. I certainly do not speak for the one Peninsula writer other than
Kill It Before It Breeds
O N TUESDAY, the voters of Washington State defeated Initiative 119, which would have legalized what proponents euphemistically termed "aid-in-dying."
Not All Men Are Scum
O K, I'VE HAD IT. Turnabout is fair play and it's time for me, as a man, to yell back
Stop Picking on Scabs
U NIONS WARM many a Harvard student's heart. Mention "union" and an image of the worker getting just desserts rises
A Poignant Catalogue of Comics
Comics aren't just for the funny papers anymore. Although profound and absurdist cartoons are as old as Thomas Nast's Tamnammy
Speaking Loudly and Carrying a Big Stick
He's soft spoken in conversation. But when riled, he becomes passionate. And his friends--and opponents--remark that he is hardly one
Tsongas's Plan for Prosperity
P AUL TSONGAS, former senator from Massachusetts and hopeful economic saviour of the good ol' U.S. of A., will officially