Rebecca F. Elliott

Ken O'Brien

Ken O'Brien

Ken looks through a stack of donated books.

Ken O'Brien
In The Meantime

Five Per Person

Ken A. O’Brien is sitting where he always sits, on the stoop in front of the Harvard Shirt Shop, lifting a cigarette to his lips.

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Some days there are home-cooked meals. Eggs, rice, bittersweet chocolate.

Student Life

Top 5 Super Bowl Commercials

Once a year, two football teams and an industry of advertisers collaborate to create an unforgettable night of American entertainment. The commercials aired on this Sunday in February are often the most innovative ones seen for the rest of the year. Here's our roundup of this Super Bowl's best.

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Harvard Square Chocolate Festival

Harvard Square Chocolate Festival
Food and Drink

Harvard Square Chocolate Festival

Harvard Square was packed this afternoon with a multitude of chocolate lovers mulling about and sampling desserts from Cambridge businesses such as J.P. Licks and Bertucci's Italian Restaurant. A few hundred individuals also participated in the Harvard Square Treasure Hunt, which took treasure-seekers to Harvard Square stores to answer questions such as "What band and candy, made in Cambridge, share the same name?"

In The Meantime

To Come True

I was four or five or six when my best friend informed me that wishing had rules.

Palestine Film Festival
For The Moment

Portraying Palestine

On a sidewalk in Palestine, a withered old man hunches over a pack of matches, striking and re-striking them but never able to produce a flame.

In The Meantime

Co-operative Living

The spatter of spinach sizzling in a wok mixes with the beat of South American rap pounding in the kitchen. ...

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Scrutiny

Nuclear Cambridge

Unless you read the yellow caution signs on the walls, the high-ceilinged chamber would appear to house a couple of ...

Film

"Gatsby" Not So Great

College Administration

Evelynn Hammonds Expected To End Tenure as Dean of the College This Summer

Science

Premeds in Search of MCAT Prep Say Harvard Classes Provide Insufficient Instruction

House Life

Anne Harrington and John Durant Named Pfoho House Masters