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David A. Fahrenthold

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To the Dearly Departing

He swished the ribbed plastic glass, and the reconstituted orange juice (more bitter than Tang and without that cool futuristic


A Vision of the Future

This was supposed to be a column about my first experience with streaking last week, sprinting stark naked at midnight


Content To Be Bitter

What's a good metaphor for a Harvard student? A talking, gold-plated pile of manure, wearing a fleece. What joke should


Jesus Week for You, But not for Me

Well folks, it's Jesus Week at Harvard. Sounds funny, doesn't it? Like Fresh Vegetables Month at Charlie's Kitchen or Bill


There's No Place Like home

MADRID--Flying standby is a lot like finishing a LSAT review class--you wish a lot of good people a lot of


With Friends Like These...

This is a column about my parents, two lovely people from Houston, Texas whom I thought I knew well. We


Join the Harvard Corps

Today is the last day of February, and across campus the World's Luckiest Kids are griping with a superhuman zeal.


Harvard Can't Have My Change

For those of you not familiar with it, let me briefly explain the Senior Gift. Harvard has $14 billion in


Restaurant to Host Burger-Eating Race

A Beverly, Mass., restaurant has put out the call for college students to participate in a hamburger-eating contest this Saturday,