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Nikki Usher

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Breaking the Curse, Chicago Style

CHICAGO—They’re saying hell will freeze over if it happens, but Chicago is hoping it will. A Red Sox-Cubs World Series


Caring For Our Future

My friends who have left the Harvard womb and actually have jobs are pretty much all aspiring yuppies now, at


Aztec Emperor ‘Richard’ Begins Mainstage Reign

The Aztec temple, bongo drum and headdresses made of pheasant feathers do not immediately bring Shakespeare to mind. But in


Powerful Words

After writing her 610-page indictment of the American government for ignoring instances of genocide around the world, Lecturer Samantha J.


Just Moderates

There was a walkout yesterday at12:30, and I wasn’t sure what to do with myself. Throngs of peaceniks were rallying


The Real World of MTV

Die-hard Justin Timberlake fans should abandon any plot to finagle their way onto the set of Total Request Live. Last


The GOP Goes Gargantuan

The buzz word is “reorganization,” but the creation of the Department of Homeland Security is actually an expansion of the