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...Olivia A. Benowitz ’09) and Bernard Nightingale (Chris J. Carothers ’11), bickering academics studying the events of 1809 and looking to make big discoveries while sifting through the manor’s paper refuse. The experiences and histories of these two stories slowly begin to dovetail into each other until the present seems able to reach back in time to pull out the relevant curios its scholars need. This strange connection is mysteriously literalized by Gus Coverly (Jason R. Vartikar-McCullough ’11), the gifted but socially handicapped resident of the modern...
...expect to begin readmitting physics concentrators in the fall of 2011, when the shortage of Bunsen burners is expected to be have been ameliorated. At that point we will have utilized our massive endowment to more thoroughly organize our supply closets across campus...
...Almost as soon as freshmen first arrive on campus—in between awkward theatrical performances about contraception and date-rape, and ultimately futile, furtive searches for beer—they begin to feign an interest in baseball just as the local team wraps up its season. No matter if they are from Baltimore or Bakersfield, Bucharest or Beirut, many Harvard students—for a month at least in early autumn—are rabid Red Sox fans...
China is dealing with visible and invisible opposition in the months before the Beijing Olympics begin. The visible was front-and-center in the world media as the OIympic torch made its way through various countries on a circuitous route to the Games. Everywhere Chinese security is on guard against activists prepared to disrupt the flame's progress to protest China's human rights record in Tibet and in the enormous province of Xinjiang. In London, a protester tried to grab the flame away from its official bearer; at one point, the torch had to make its way through...
...notwithstanding, Gänswein is devoted to the administrative and ceremonial requirements of his current job. Though he tends to keep a low profile, the 51-year-old prelate did tell one Catholic newspaper last year a bit about a typical day in the papal apartment: he and the Pope begin with breakfast, often with one or two other staffers, and Gänswein prepares documents for the papal signature and lays out the list of upcoming appointments. The pair typically take a daily stroll together after lunch in the Vatican gardens...