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...added. “Students sometimes use words a few sizes too large for their purposes,” said Harvard Bernbaum Professor of Literature Professor Daniel Albright. “In general, if you say caliginous when you mean dark, you are off the beaten track.” Complex words in student writing sometimes seem out of place, said Lydia A. Fillingham, a preceptor of the Harvard Expository Writing Program. “One thing people do a lot of is use the noun form instead of a verb. Instead of using ‘spent more...

Author: By Carolyn F. Gaebler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bigger Isn't Always Better | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

...comment on whether the professor had received any other punishments. But Claudia Goldin, the Lee professor of economics, wrote in an e-mail Thursday that Shleifer had appeared “quite content.”“Prof. Shleifer does not appear to have been whipped, beaten, tortured, or starved,” she wrote in an e-mail. “I see no evidence of punishment.” —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shleifer Stripped of Endowed Title | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

...Prof. Shleifer does not appear to have been whipped, beaten, tortured, or starved,” she wrote in an e-mail. “I see no evidence of punishment...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shleifer Stripped of Endowed Title | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

...interviews, three former prisoners jailed in the Damascus facility told Grey that they were regularly beaten by Syrian interrogators, and that they had been held in cells barely longer and wider than coffins. While in solitary confinement, they say they communicated with each other in snatched conversations through the walls, and sensed the presence of other prisoners also through their screams during torture sessions. One former prisoner told Grey that he had spoken through the walls with a jailed teenager, who told the man he had been transferred from Pakistan to Syria by U.S.agents. The adult prisoner recalled the teenager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the CIA's Secret Prisons Program | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

...close-for-comfort win over Dartmouth. Lehigh’s run defense, however, is one of the better ones around, two weeks removed from holding Dawson to a season-low 94 yards. Prediction: Lehigh 24, Yale 23CORNELL (1-3, 0-2) VS. COLGATE (2-3) Colgate has beaten Cornell in their last 10 meetings, dating back to 1992. But I’m just focusing on 2006, remember? Remarkably similar teams in name (seven letters beginning in C) and place (non-metropolitan New York) and strategy (run early and often). A showdown of productive runners in Jordan Scott of Colgate...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Preseason Picks? No Help, Says Lehman | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

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