Children and adults have had Spiderman and Superman as their favorite comic heroes for years. But now, thanks to Tufts graduate Naif Al-Mutawa (LA '94), people across the globe have a new set of heroes to admire.
As most of her peers in her graduating class dreaded the potential re-election of President George W. Bush, alumna Rachel Hoff (LA '04) prepared for a career in which she would mobilize support for his party.
Is it too late to turn to a career in Major League Baseball? I ask this only because my greatest regret in life has always been that I never played Little League as a child. Not even T-ball. And that is a great shame, because I believe I could have been a great ballplayer.
When I die, people are going to be able to say two things about me: "Wow, that good-looking kid never left Medford" and "that really awesome and attractive townie sure knew a thing or two about movies." Until now, I had only appeased the first quote in my Daily Townie column and had yet to venture into the wonderful realm of movies. I'm a columnist, not a movie critic.
The Honorable Irwin Cotler, former Minister of Justice for Canada, spoke Wednesday evening to a crowd of about 90 in an event sponsored by the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL).
Before his talk yesterday, Irwin Cotler sat down with the Daily for a brief chat about legislation passed in September that changed the rules regarding who can be held in suspicion of terrorism and how they can be treated.
At the end of September, in what many have seen as a betrayal of civil liberties, Congress authorized the use of military tribunals to try suspected terrorists and consented to a degree of leeway in interrogation techniques.
The Tufts University Police Department reported today that Tufts' cannon, painted in rainbow colors to celebrate National Coming Out Day, was vandalized yesterday morning.
"We have taught the rest of the world" to view nuclear weapons as a symbol of respect..."
The men's soccer team added another tally in the win column on Bello Field last night, demolishing non-conference Plymouth State in its second straight 5-0 shutout victory. The Jumbos extended their winning streak to five games and are now 5-4-1 on the year, their first winning record of the 2006 season.
With the mid-October deadline for many study abroad programs looming, many Tufts juniors are anxiously awaiting acceptance letters and sending in visa applications.
Dewick on a Thursday night is a dangerous place. The Belgian waffle makers sit beckoning. The pizza glistens. On top of all that, it's sundae night. So how do Tufts students eat so indulgently without blowing up?
New York Yankees pitcher Corey Lidle died yesterday afternoon after his plane struck near the 40th floor of a 50-story residential high-rise on New York's Upper East Side, authorities said.
The abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko once said that "... the familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite association with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment."
The connections between a person's past and present are not always clear-cut. In the case of Lecturer Abby Zanger, a winding path of comics, magazines, and books eventually led her to the front of a crowded college classroom to speak about sexuality and gender issues.
The Deutsche Oper Berlin announced the cancellation of its performance of Mozart's 1781 opera "Idomeneo" two weeks ago, just a few weeks before the start of the fall season. Citing security concerns and an anonymous phone call, the opera company's decision was based on a controversial closing scene featuring four severed heads of religious icons, including Muhammad.
Any team expecting to waltz out of Cousens with an easy victory should think again.
