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...these specialized collections have left the building, the serious research needs of outside students and scholars have been met in buildings other than Widener,” writes Battles. Widener’s reduced function makes its preservation as the center of scholarly research increasingly symbolic and less actual. In view of this, it might well be worth losing some space in Widener for the benefit of a visiting public. Guided visits might lead tourists to the memorial room, the reading room and part of the stacks. Current tours which halt on the steps outside provide tourists with frivolous stories...
...million for the two-year period ending in mid-2002) even when the value of the endowment declined. These bonuses have been based on a committee-contrived formula, never publicly disclosed, that pays bonuses based on performance “benchmarks” tied to market indices, not actual gains in value. One financial consultant at McGill University wrote us last year arguing that at least one of Harvard’s benchmarks had been chosen because it was notoriously easy to beat. Bottom line: Being a fund manager at Harvard gives a person a near-lock on a multimillion...
...actual restroom,” said Steven G. Catalano, Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) spokesman. “He poked his head under the shower stall so that his head was actually looking up into the shower stall. He saw that she saw him and he fled the area...
...someone who has never quite managed to not do theater any semester since coming to Harvard, I can tell you the idea is not a new one. However, growing student and faculty interest as well as the currency of the Curricular Review have set the stage for actual change. And while one might assume that the theater community would whole-heartedly support such a move, the hour-plus debate on the topic at the last Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) open meeting demonstrated that while the original push for a theatrical concentration may have come from the theater community...
...Hassan's killing but declined to air it to protect the sensitivities of viewers and of hostages' families, according to spokesman Jihad Ballout. Al-Jazeera has shown parts of other executions before, censoring the gore. The network did air the unedited Marine shooting repeatedly. U.S. channels blacked out the actual killing...