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Benjamin N. Smith

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Those Back-to-School Blues

E VERY YEAR around this time, I have to live through an ordeal. I am sitting at the lunch table,


A Fatal Mistake

V ERY RARELY CAN a person recall the exact moment of the life-shattering mistake which ruined his or her life,


Square Ordeal

O NE DAY I was walking in front of Holyoke Center, minding my own business, when something extraordinary happened. I


Trouble With Tables

T HE OTHER NIGHT, sulking through my dining hall, bouncing from the Spanish Table to the Hebrew Table, avoiding the


A Section in Hell

T HE OTHER DAY, spurred by a fear that I had heard something moving around inside, I cleaned out my


Professing Some Hatred

T HE OTHER DAY at lunch, as I sat there trying to figure out what kind of sea creatures, if


Brazil's Flying Circus

Brazil Directed by Terry Gilliam At the Harvard Square Theatre and the USA Copley Place T HERE HAS ALWAYS been


Harvard Health Plan Settlement Averts Strike

Three hundred and fifty non-medical employees of the Cambridge and Kenmore Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP) remained on the job


Thanks for the Blues

I HAVE TO ADMIT that it seemed like a good idea at first. I had never had the opportunity to