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...those of you non-seniors who might be reading this column and asking yourselves whether you should choose to write a thesis, I refer you to a helpful list of "Dos and Don'ts" written by former Crimson columnist Geoffrey C. Upton '99 on this page (Column, April 21, 1999). Read it and think about whether a thesis is the way you want to cap off your Harvard career (instead of doing independent research, taking a couple of seminars, or spending more time on your extracurricular of choice). The only advice I'll echo here is the importance of picking...
Former O.J. Simpson lawyer Barry Scheck joined the co-authors of his new book, Actual Innocence, lawyer Peter Neufeld and columnist Jim Dwyer, in a panel discussion about the possibilities for DNA to exonerate the wrongly convicted...
...students on this campus dream up convoluted application processes for extracurricular organizations and then shove them down their peers' throats. Equally mystifying is the reason why the members of the student body not already a part of these 'in' groups are so eager to participate in what one Crimson columnist has called an "illusion of meritocracy...
SARAH VOWELL, a columnist for Salon.com and a contributing editor to This American Life on Public Radio International, is usually grabbed by topics that, as she puts it, are not very girly: guns, the Godfather movies and goth culture. Yet in reviewing Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, she was surprised by the strong reactions the book provokes, which range from worshipful to wary. "The book's strength is basically how sane it is," says Vowell, who adds, however, that reading the 884-page manual had her "completely, overly aware of the state of my bathroom." Vowell...
...their part, Fallahian and Rafsanjani have denounced Ganji's writings as lies. Even some of Iran's liberals, fearing a hard-line backlash against the reform camp, believe he goes too far. "We need to make sure that our approach is measured," says Morteza Mardihah, a columnist for the Tehran daily Asr-e-Azadegan. "With Ganji, it is like passing a car accident. Sometimes reality is too harsh--and unnecessary to look...