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...weeks ago, the inevitable happened: a friend approached me and my roommates about giving to the Senior Gift. (Fear not, loyal Crimson readers. This is not another column about the Senior Gift.) Our classmate gave us the big sales pitch for why Harvard deserves our support: the incredible resources, the Faculty, the libraries and labs. And, inevitably, one of my roommates made one of the usual objections, that her friends, not the institution, had made her Harvard years memorable...
...Maureen Dowd's Pulitzer Prize-winning column can be read in 6 minutes...
...Federal Reserve Board Chair Alan Greenspan to speak at this June's Commencement has been rather quiet. None of my fellow seniors seems terribly upset by Greenspan's selection. No one denies that Greenspan is one of the most powerful people in the world today. (In a previous column, I compared his influence to that of International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch, well before Greenspan's selection was announced.) But no one seems terribly excited to hear Greenspan either. This is worrisome, given that the audience at the address-technically separate from Commencement exercises and instead the keynote speech...
...about economic policy. I hope others in my class will return after the morning exercise, give him a chance and hear what he has to say. Let's just hope he doesn't say anything about sunscreen. Andrew S. Chang '99 is a neurobiology concentrator in Kirkland House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
...there is one, I think, that applies to everyone: Spending four years in pursuit of knowledge is enough to teach you that at college's end, you have even more to learn than when you started. Daniel M. Suleiman '99 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...