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Brian R. Hecht
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Hurricane of '38 Nearly Got the Best of Harvard
The members of the Class of 1992 had just moved into their sophomore rooms when the storm struck. They had
Turning Soft on ROTC
S OMETHING STRANGE has been going on in the decision-making circles of the Harvard administration lately. Don't get me wrong--on
Rosanne's Vomit
Married With Children is often called the epitome of the Fox "anti-sitcom"--the Bundys are everything the Bradys were not. But
The Mario Scenario
When a politician says he has no plans to run for president, we say he is "sitting this one out."
Lowell House Bungles Bernstein
There is a recurring image in popular culture--perhaps from cartoons, or maybe sitcoms--of a mother dragging her son to an
Nice Choice. Why So Secret?
T HE FIRST TIME that Harvard's student press encountered Neil Rudenstine, he was slipping out a side entrance of Boston's
Deli Day for Afro-Am
T HE MAIN HEADLINE of last Thursday's Crimson trumpeted that notoriously hip filmmaker Spike Lee would be teaching a one-semester
Itinerary
It is difficult to imagine an itinerary which would take an enterprising traveler from the Grand Tetons in Wyoming, through
In Poland, It's Sachs Versus Socialism
Few Harvard professors can claim that they have been compared to Indiana Jones, John Kenneth Galbraith and Herbert Hoover. True,
Bulgarian President Seeks Harvard's Aid
The first non-communist president in Bulgaria's post-war history visited Harvard yesterday, meeting with President Derek C. Bok to discuss ways
Garber Named to Faculty Post
After being selected last spring, Professor of English Marjorie Garber has begun her one-year term as Associate Dean for Affirmative
On the Fringes of Pop With O-Positive
Sitting in his dressing room after an early performance at Cambridge's Nightstage last weekend, Dave Herlihy sounds like a man
Radio Cold Warrior
I T ALL BEGAN at age nine with an AM radio. By ten, it was an air mail letter. And
Is Bush Courting Disaster?
F OR GEORGE BUSH, the resignation of long-time Supreme Court justice William Brennan is a gift of historic proportions. The
Looking Back at '89: The Berlin Wall, the Magic Lantern, And the 'Refolutions' That Changed the Face of Europe
In the past few decades, a logical pattern by which writers translate historical events into the written word has evolved.
