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Joshua Derman

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What I Saw at the Senior Bar

Someone has taped a lime-green slip of paper to the door of my New Quincy suite, redeemable for one does


Deconstructing the Plan File

You are about to read the shortest senior thesis ever written at Harvard. I am submitting it to the English


Put on Something Sexy and Hit the Stacks

Harvard lacks a social center. Or so the pundits say. Earlier this week, the Undergraduate Council pledged $25,000 toward the


A Hawk's Eye View of Harvard

As I returned home to Quincy House a few nights ago, I saw a large skunk scurry across Plympton Street


OH, HOW SWEDE IT IS

KENT/THE CARDIGANS From Sweden With Love At The Roxy February 6 The Cardigans and Kent-two of Sweden's most popular bands--played


Running the Recruiting Gauntlet

You might have seen me walking around campus in a suit last week. Then again, I was probably difficult to


FROM SWEDEN WITH LOVE

KENT At the Roxy February 6 Kent is Sweden's most popular band, but they're hardly heard of outside the land


Stranger Than Fiction

MARK LEYNER Author of The Tetherballs of Bougainville In person, Mark Leyner barely resembles the fictional persona of his novels,


Plasma Meets Politics in 'Shedding Life'

Czech history is full of political polymaths--the nation's first president, T.G. Masaryk, was trained as a philosopher, while Vaclav Havel