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...We’re not running around desperate for content. We can be selective and get things that are really good and really new,” says design board member Joseph B. Morcos ’12, contrasting the Advocate with younger and less prominent publications on campus. “Our history actually contributes to the magazine’s ability to find ahead-of-the-curve things...
...Spanish after my devoted and careful teachings, I would embark on a lesson on how to use the appropriate preposition and verb and then consider the question of how to properly translate the image of a scorching heart into Spanish (which would lead us into the terrain of poetry). B. I would teach the student the verb "coquetear" (to flirt), and ask for its conjugation in the future tense, with a no in front, of course. C. I would reply: Mi coraz?...
...social events around campus. As a member of the Student Activities Office staff and College Life and Activities Group, Sidwell will work closely with the College Events Board to plan events such as Yardfest, the annual welcome-back celebration, and Harvard-Yale weekend festivities. Sidwell will succeed Jason B. McCoy ’08 to the position on July 1. For her, getting the position is “a dream come true.” “I can’t wait to start working with students to plan the most exciting and fun events that...
...gather on the Capitol grounds for Easter Egg rolling in the 19th century, but lawmakers grew so peeved at the damage to the grass that in 1876 they passed the Turf Protection Law banning the practice. Bad weather nixed egg rolling the following year, but in 1878 President Rutherford B. Hayes opened the White House grounds to the displaced youngsters and a tradition began. It has continued steadily ever since, interrupted only by inclement weather and hiatuses during World Wars...
...That's far less than the $7 billion stock-market valuation Satyam, India's fourth-largest I.T. company, once enjoyed before the scandal. In January, Satyam founder and chairman B. Ramalinga Raju confessed that accounts at had been fudged for years and that assets and profits to the tune of $1.6 billion did not exist. The government subsequently stepped in, appointing a board of directors to try to stabilize Satyam until a buyer could be found...