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...Sitting in a crowded lecture hall while another evolutionary science professor tries to tackle the age-old religions, David M. Silvestri ’07 is biting his tongue...
Finally, the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub has solved an age-old problem: where’s a senior to get a drink in this place? Last Friday, hundreds of students flooded the Queen’s Head Pub to partake in the first ever “Upper Hall.” According to Loker Commons Project Manager, Zachary A Corker ’04, the term “Hall” alludes to social gatherings at the Oxbridge Universities that we Harvard students unceremoniously call a dinner or drink. Now, Harvard has its own distinct...
Toys with a Made-in-China provenance aren't always cheap, mass-produced bits of plastic. In Beijing, a smattering of artisans is keeping the age-old traditions of handcrafted toys alive, and their intricately painted kites, colorful cloth animals and hand-painted clay figures are more than mere objects for children's entertainment-they also showcase delightful aspects of China's enduring folk culture...
...from the administration’s perspective, the answer to this age-old problem of depleted funds is to instead re-evaluate the importance of these embattled student groups...
...Preaching Tolerance re your report about the age-old divide between Sunnis and Shi'ites [March 12]: It never ceases to amaze me that people kill one another over trivial religious differences. Religious wars will be with us for a very long time. Isn't the Shi'ite-Sunni battle the same religious trivia as the Northern Ireland Protestant-Catholic mess that has been going on for so many years? How could these issues be so important that one can kill one's neighbor over them? Jeff White, Kilchberg, Switzerland...