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Jim Cocola

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Facing the Grave

Recently I was looking at a picture of myself taken before a spring House formal I attended last year. My


Only a Door

Four years ago, when I decided to attend Harvard, my friends and relatives fully supported my choice. Smiles and nods


Why I Ump

Now that the clocks have been turned ahead and the sun will be sticking around well past dinner time, I


Earn Your Stripes

The contents of my closet haven't changed much in the last four years. I still own a wide assortment of


Billy the Kid

At age 43, Bill Paxon appeared to be one of the youngest and fastest-rising politicians in Congress since Al Gore


Redefining Love

I adore you. I feel an intense adulation for you. I am affectionate toward you. I am extremely attached to


IOP Panel Discusses Keith Richburg's 'Out of America' Book

More than 100 undergraduates, graduate students and Cambridge residents gathered last night at the Kennedy School of Government to hear


Out From Under the Rug

A s college students, we are exposed to and expected to live up to the conventions of adulthood on a