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...turn into narrow, icy, ankle-twisting paths). Cross streets aggressively and stare down disgruntled motorists—they’re required to stop for pedestrians in cross walks. In under five minutes, you can get from the Yard to the Law School and Hemenway Gym. Just go north, behind the Science Center, and voila. The Business School is about 20 minutes away, south of the Yard and just across the Charles. In the unfortunate event that you need to rush to University Health Services emergency room, it’s accessible 24 hours a day. Take either Dunster...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland and Shan Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Getting Around Boston | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...Should you decide to visit Mather or the Quad, the exotic locales that throw most of the legitimate House parties on campus, you’ll want to use the shuttles. They leave from outside Lamont (Mather), Boylston Gate (the Quad), and behind Annenberg (both). On weekends and after midnight on weekdays, shuttles can take you all the way from Dunster to Pfoho, stopping at most of the useful points in between. When riding that late night bus with 50 other partygoers (watch out for vomit!), be grateful that the College decided against a plan to drastically reduce shuttle service...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland and Shan Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Getting Around Boston | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...Even though the Provost’s Office was created just over a decade ago, this behind-the-scenes operator is Harvard’s top academic administrator and second-in-command to the President. Former President Larry Summers tapped Hyman, a neuroscientist by training, for the Provost’s post in 2001, after Hyman had spent five years in Washington as director of the National Institute of Mental Health. He may now be a tenured neurobiology professor at the Medical School, but Hyman actually completed his undergraduate degree summa cum laude in philosophy and humanities at our beloved...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Guide to Administrators | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...Camera: Cool things happen at Harvard. You might see the Dalai Lama rolling in a stretch limo behind Lamont, you may run into Emma Watson during breakfast at the ’Berg, and the guys and gals running by your dorm during Primal Scream may be future Congressmen. Needless to say, you’ll want to keep track of your Harvard memories...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese and Amy Sun, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Must-Haves for Life in College | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

TIME: For readers who might not be familiar with it, what's the methodology behind the rankings? Morse: [They're] based on 15 indicators, [including] a reputation survey, admissions data, faculty data, financial-resources data, alumni giving and graduation and retention rates. We're not comparing all 1,400 schools. We're dividing them up into 10 categories, like national universities and liberal arts. We assign a weight to each of the variables. The peer survey, or the academic reputation, is the highest-weighted variable - it's 25%. (Read about a new college-rankings system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: The Man Behind the U.S. News College Rankings | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

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