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...year can be attributed to students interested in economics as a secondary, but not primary, concentration, according to Stock.The Faculty’s Educational Policy Committee has yet to examine non-departmental proposals, including ones for archaeology, global health, health policy, and mind, brain, and behavior. The EPC will begin reviewing these proposals in early February, but secondary fields in those areas will not be available for June 2007 graduates.“We don’t necessarily want students to be planning their lives around this,” Kenen said of secondary fields. “It?...
...experience pales in comparison to the Greatest Game. So what? That Blue Devil was so cool. We need something cool like that. But way, way cooler.Let me be the first to start the debate. Let me be the founder of the great mascot rally of our time. I will begin at the beginning—John Harvard. Did you know he is technically our mascot? But he would never work: not enough pizzazz, remember? I mean, he died of pneumonia. We need something invincible.Then there rumor turned mascot—the Cantab. Many people claim this is the true Harvard...
...Over the past four years I've graphed searches for "diets," and, not surprisingly, the yearly pinnacle occurs during the first week of January. What is surprising is just how fleeting an interest Internet users have in losing weight. By the second week of the year, diet searches begin a precipitous fall, dropping 32% within the first few days of the New Year, only to briefly recover in the summer months for swimwear season. The collapse then resumes until diet interest reaches an all time low on Thanksgiving Day. Diet searches remain in the trough in the weeks between Thanksgiving...
...good for 21st on the Crimson list. Now, however, that career is over. After the game, Cusworth sat for the last time in front of his locker, its contents packed into a gym bag open at his feet, and faced the prospect of leaving school, and his teammates, to begin preparing in earnest for a future in professional basketball. “Putting the nametag in this bag is probably one of the hardest things I’ve done since I’ve been here,” Cusworth said. “It’s tough...
...room. Outside, the temperature is below freezing, but inside the air is thick and pungent with the heavy scent of perspiration. A small microphone is turned on, and a middle-aged man with a face creased with grief began chanting a mournful dirge. The penitents, sitting in rough circles, begin to pound their chests in a powerful rhythm amplified by a hundred chest cavities. Deep and as resonant as a heartbeat, the sound gradually changes tenor as thin cotton shirts split with the force of repeated blows and palms slap bare skin. Men wail...