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...reported in the Yale Daily News last Thursday, a committee of Ivy League athletic directors will submit a report to member schools’ presidents recommending a reduction in the number of athletics recruits. Such a reduction, if implemented, would superficially alter a policy that needs much more radical change. What Harvard—and the Ivy League—needs is either an increase in athletic quality of athletic recruits or no athletic recruits...

Author: By Zachary S. Podolsky, | Title: Meritocracy 1, Harvard 0 | 2/26/2002 | See Source »

...movie Planet of the Apes.) But instead of platform leather boots, pancake makeup and pyrotechnic stage shows, Oyamada would go on to vent his wild side through his uninhibited, almost childlike sonic stylings. This obsessive fascination with music as an aural portal to his (and our) more Dionysian alter egos made his 1998 album Fantasma an international breakthrough. The charged orgy of crunchy metal riffs, mutated Disney-like anthems and psychedelic vocals propelled the album to the top of America's college charts and prompted an 80-city tour of the U.S. and Europe as well as appearances at England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supreme Ape Leader | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...discover it in The Gates of Janus. Nor will they find many insights in his lengthy double-speak. Perhaps the real surprise about this book, first published late last year, is that it has sold enough copies to warrant a reprint. Brady holds that the "serial killer is ... your alter ego, that facet of character you strive so hard to conceal and repress." He may believe it; but readers of this ugly, unpersuasive book certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scene of The Crime | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...choice, intellectual stimulation and at least eight electives. That to secure these rights, curricular guidelines are instituted among Faculty, deriving their just powers from the consent of the student body. That whenever any Core Curriculum becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the Students to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Curriculum, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Intellectual Freedom and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Curriculum long established should not be changed for light...

Author: By Lauren E. Baer, | Title: A Declaration of Intellectual Independence | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

Even Nobel Prize-winning scientists fail to become superstars or media darlings, nor does the Nobel improve their chances of getting a choice table in a New York City restaurant. But a scientist who can make a discovery with the potential to directly save millions of lives and alter the path of a disease ravaging the globe will not just be remembered—he will also be a hero...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blinded By Science | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

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