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John L. Larew
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Author! Author! Wherefore Art Thou, Author?
H ARVARD COMMENCEMENT guests, you are about to witness something remarkable. You may never again hear speeches as special as
Oy, Vey! Dershowitz Has a Lot of Chutzpah in Chutzpah
A LAN DERSHOWITZ WAS the only Harvard professor I had heard of before coming Harvard. I avidly read his syndicated
Why I'm Skipping AWARE Week
T HE ARRIVAL OF AWARE Week (Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism) '91 reminds me of two things. The first
An Amoral Equivalent to Peace
I T IS A COMMONLY noted paradox that war, perhaps the basest of human activities, seems to bring out the
Beyond Good and Evil: The Foolishness of Demonstrators
I DON'T have any problem expressing support for the troops in the Gulf. Some of my best friends, as they
What Jack Kemp Could Teach PBH
I T MAY not be the Straus Cup, but the just-launched "Ecolymplics" is a house rivalry that all students should
Bring Back the Draft
A S SADDAM Hussein's rhetoric becomes more bellicose and President Bush's trigger-finger grows itchier, many Harvard students have come to
Cow-Tipping is a Load of Bull
M Y FAMILY lives 40 miles from the nearest movie theater and the nearest McDonalds, on a farm in a
Glasnost 'til the End
T HE staff position advocates openness and student input in the search for Harvard's next president, but then abandons those
Who's Afraid of United Germany?
R OWDY fans cheered wildly as they disembarked the train from Rome, many of them proudly waving the tricolored German
. . . Only if You Want a Civil War
F REE South Africa... Nelson Mandela... ANC ... Desmond Tutu... Soweto... Steve Biko... The blue poster on a house bulletin
An Open Letter to Seniors
D EAR Senior: Tomorrow: You graduate from Harvard. You're in the hock more than $10,000 in student loans. You take
College for All: Here's How
W ITH the announcement that their tuition will increase by 6.7 percent, Harvard undergraduates can expect to owe the University
Totalitarian Quiz
I N THE spirit of final exams, please match the following quotations with the leader who uttered them. Some answers
It's a Great Place to Start
D URING high school, my buddies and I thought nothing of using anti-gay slurs. After graduation, most of my friends
