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Could I just do a big self-promotional column about how everyone should check out my new website (check it out, please)? No, I decided, I couldn't. If someone else proposed to take up space in the Indy promoting their website I wouldn't let them, and it would be an abuse of the mighty powers that the 2000-2001 Executive Board bestowed upon me as Lord of All Content to do it myself. Then again, the genius of being Editor in Chief is that you get to employ shady end-around tactics to avoid your own rules.
By Matthew Yglesias in Backspace

2. Patriot games
Published Thursday, February 07, 2002

Yes, it's Thursday when you're reading this. The game was Sunday. Presumably, all the hungover and happily dazed Patsies fans have roused themselves from the gutters of the French Quarter and taken the red-eye flights back to Worcester, Mattapan, and Beacon Hill. Presum- ably, they have cleaned up that patriotic blizzard of confetti from the Superdome carpet and are now preparing for a gathering only slightly less American than the Super Bowl, namely a car dealer convention.
By Andrew Ujifusa in Sports

3. Boston reborn
Published Thursday, February 07, 2002

The Boston sports fan has lived in a weird state of post-1986 hangover and frustration for 16 years. In 1986 the Bruins had a good year and made the playoffs, the Patriots and the Red Sox made it to championship games and the Celtics capped off a dominating season with a World Championship. Since then, the only team to even make it to a championship game was the Patriots in 1996, and that was between two significant stretches of seasons which could be categorized as mediocre at best. In short, Boston fans have had it kind of hard over the past 16 years.
By Devin Cole in Sports

4. Hanging around
Published Thursday, February 07, 2002

Coming into the season predicted to finish 6th in the Ivy League, the Harvard men's basketball team has surprised doubters by opening its season 4-2 in league play. With the graduation of superstar Dan Clemente '01, many believed Harvard would enter a rebuilding year. While the Crimson have not been a better squad than they were last year, they haven't been worse. And each week, the Crimson go out and prove that they belong in the league's elite. With wins over league favorites Penn and Brown, the Crimson have emerged as a potential dark horse for the Ivy League crown.
By Sam Roddenberry in Sports

5. A perfect ten
Published Thursday, February 07, 2002

What's one of the first things you do after watching a game like Super Bowl XXXVI? I mean, besides recover from your hangover or call up your bookmaker in Las Vegas to plead foranother week. Like Albert Einstein, you think in terms of relativity. How does a game like that stack up to other Super Bowls? Or, even more grandly, how does a game like that stack up to other games regardless of the sport?
By Andrew Ujifusa in Sports

6. Pleasing PSLM
Published Thursday, February 07, 2002

A semester after the Living Wage Campaign saw its climax in the three-week occupation of Massachusetts Hall, the campaign and its parent organization, the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), are hoping to find a new role in campus life.
By John Raskin in News

7. Reading Woes
Published Thursday, February 07, 2002

Although we've survived them yet again, reading and finals periods took their usual toll. The organizations that exist to support Harvard students watch every year as students wrestle with January and make special efforts to care for them during that stressful time.
By Susan Ashley in News

8. Disappearing Acts
Published Thursday, February 07, 2002

Throughout January, Harvard was in the national news almost every day regarding controversy in the Afro-American Studies department. But here on campus, student recognition of the events is very different.
By Robin Kachka in News

9. Liner Notes
Published Thursday, February 07, 2002

liner notes
By SHAUNAK DEEPAK in Arts

10. Hope Springs
Published Thursday, February 07, 2002

It is a little disturbing when you read a novel and you get the distinct impression that it was written with the intent that it be made into a quirky, romantic comedy.
By Susan Mathai in Arts