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Perhaps a country-themed final club—“the Armadillo”?—or secret society akin to Yale’s Skull and Bones—less psychosexual initiation rites, more hay—is the step we need. After all, Harvard students seem to love that which that spurns and excludes them...
...family of Harel, the founder of Migron, embodies that divide. Harel's father Israel was among the early settlers who crossed into Jordanian territory after the 1967 war. He says that settlers like him were driven by a collective Zionism akin to socialism. "Our motivation wasn't religious," says the elder Harel. But younger settlers, like his son, seek more "divine reasons" for spreading into the Palestinian lands. "This transition into religious nationalism is unfortunate. It makes us into a sect," the elder Harel says. "And it doesn't represent what the majority of Israelis think...
...attendance for Friday night’s women’s hockey game at Bright Hockey Center was announced at 1,211.It’s not a scientific process, these population calculations, in practice probably something akin to eyeballing the 2,800-seat facility and declaring it slightly less than halfway full. The figure represented a mood more than anything, the noticeable tension emanating from the approximate hundred dozen that encircled the rink, the excitement palpable in the arena as the fifth-ranked Crimson vied for first place in the conference.It was the biggest crowd at Harvard?...
...amount of time haggard, harried Harvard undergrads have devoted to campaigning, reporting, and generally gossiping about this election—akin to a middle-school class president election on amphetamines—is absurd. Through student publications and blogs such as Cambridge Common and Team Zebra, this year’s election has received more press coverage than the Lewinsky scandal...
Laurence H. Tribe ’62, the prominent legal expert and Harvard Law School (HLS) professor who represented Al Gore in the 2000 post-election saga, will serve as a consultant on constitutional and Supreme Court matters for the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, the firm announced yesterday. Tribe will be working with colleague Thomas C. Goldstein, an HLS lecturer and a partner at Akin Gump, one of the world’s largest legal firms. “Representing private clients in important disputes of the day allows me to put into practice the principles that...