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On Wednesday evening the law school honored Earl Phalen '93 and Aaron Bartley '01 by presenting them with the Gary Bellow Public Service Award. The two winners were selected by 300 students from a field of ten candidates. Though the night was meant to honor the recipients, the first annual presentation also offered a chance to remember Prof.
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As anthrax scares spread across the nation, Harvard Law School discovered that it was not immune from the anxiety that has sent emergency workers scrambling to respond to thousands of incidents of letters that were suspicious enough to spook recipients to alert law enforcement.
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It'll be cold soon. The other night Cambridge Common was draped in a thick veil of smothering fog -- one of those ethereal hazes that brings halos to the streetlights and prompts that little cold gasp right near the back of your throat when you breathe it in.
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As I sat down to watch Game 5 of the American League Divisional Series between the New York Yankees and the Oakland A's, I was presented with a profound dilemma. Should I root for the Yankees? I was a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan, and to root against the Yankees was my nature, to hate them my obligation.
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Harvard students: At least they have their health A recent survey of undergraduate students reveals that students at Harvard College drink more, have less sex and are more likely to be depressed than students at other undergraduate schools. Still, students are optimistic: More than 75 percent of students described their health as excellent or very good, compared with a national average of 61 percent.
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Dear Kelly, I read with great pleasure and joy your "Coming out of Homosexuality" article. I am sure that you will be receiving a fair share of criticism for your stance, but I wanted to be sure to thank you and let you know that your article has affected at least one individual enough to become motivated to make a change in lifestyle.
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Anthrax. The word itself is chilling, harsh, consonantal. Its two sharp syllables connote fear, violence and infection. It is a disease so scary that a 1980s heavy metal band named itself after it, hoping to lend an air of mystery and foreboding. I wonder how the members of that band feel now, seeing that a name they chose for their edgy ring has now become the name of some of our darkest collective fears.
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My weekend could not have been more quintessentially "California" had I dreamt it up. Still, it confirmed what I have realized since returning to my home state: No matter where I am, I feel like an outsider. My father came to visit me on Thursday. On Friday night, we attended two parties.
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At age 26, Ryan Adams (no, not Canadian 80s-rocker Bryan "Summer of '69" Adams ...) has already earned enough praise and criticism to last a career. When he was just 20 years old, Adams' band Whiskeytown was given the responsibility of saving alternative country-rock.
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You probably were not aware, but another season of reality TV limped lamely to a close Tuesday evening. I'll spare you the bang/whimper allusion -- in addition to the moratorium on nautical metaphors I'm self-imposing, Fox's own "The Maiden Voyage" being repugnant enough, thank you -- in favor of moving quickly to the most compelling reason for patting your oblivious self on the back.
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Back in 1994, the now-legendary alternative country pioneer band Uncle Tupelo was suffering an intense schizophrenia. Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar, the two primary singer-songwriters, struggled to sustain an increasingly fractured and turbulent musical marriage, but to no avail.
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Some secrets do not keep very well. Case in point: the big to-do that is the Strokes these days. Rumblings in the English magazines -- reviews lavished in wild tones of indulgent reverence that the Brits only reserve these days for Radiohead or, on a slow Thom Yorke news day, Travis.