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...symbol of our shared sacrifice, the statue of John Harvard will be meticulously chiseled down to a smaller size in proportion to the budget cut, at a cost of $2.6 million. Since improvements like this, and all the amenities of Harvard life, do not come cheaply, we ask for your kind, tax-deductible donation...
...providing this improved support, Harvard will do a service to students who benefit from its financial aid policy that mirrors that generous, visionary initiative. We call on President Faust and the whole Harvard community to place these ideas on the front burner. We ask that alumni and alumnae join this call to action, by helping fund summer programs and donating their time for mentoring programs all around the country. We ask that student leaders and faculty advisors answer this call by joining forces to aid this increasing pool of first-generation and low-income matriculating students, to ease them through...
Nonetheless, I begin from a recent Crimson editorial deploring the loss of America’s international reputation under the Bush administration. Reputation for what? I ask. A reputation for being agreeable and nice, or for acting strongly and successfully? No foreign policy move so far of President Obama has done more for our reputation than ordering the very humane shooting, with no interrogation, of three pirates...
...work,” Jones said. “She stood in the community of whose history she was documenting.”THE PATH HOMEAfter college, Brown made what seemed to be a peculiar move—she enrolled in the University of California Los Angeles Business School.When asked about her decision, Brown said, “My parents, who were both lawyers, always encouraged me to think of banjo as an avocation rather than a vocation.” After earning her MBA, Brown embarked on a two-year stint with the investment bank Smith Barney...
...disingenuous.RR: Let’s start over. And let’s be honest this time. What will you miss most about Harvard? KS: I should have thought more about this. And about my life in general. Who am I? What am I doing here?RR: I did not ask any of those questions.KS: Hm.RR: I think I’m going to go now.KS: I’d miss my freshman year roommates.RR: So you’ll miss the people.KS: Yeah, that and the strong religious faith of the students here.RR: Okay.KS: And the institutionalized public nudity...