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From a social perspective, the Harvard first-year experience is not unlike a November afternoon: a little chilly, but not exactly frozen either. On paper, the youngest quartile is offered a slew of exceptional accommodations, ranging from an in-house proctor to provide around-the-clock counsel, to a Prefect Program that presents an upperclass perspective, to frosh-only dining designed to engender class cohesion. In reality, however, advising is wholly hit-or-miss, study breaks are largely unattended, and the charm of Annenberg wears thin long before it has ever been appreciated. But the Freshman Dean?...
Harvard may not explicitly endorse time off as a treatment, but the practice is glorified in Harvard’s administrative halls. In 2000, William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid, Marlyn McGrath Lewis, director of admissions, and Charles Ducey, then-director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, co-authored “Time Out or Burn Out For the Next Generation...
Frank McNamara, a counselor at the Bureau of Study Counsel, agreed. “Our individual and collective experience with students clearly supports the notion that time away can significantly contribute to a student’s growth and development,” he writes in an e-mail...
...part because the government has failed to adequately support research, Microsoft’s top attorney said in a speech at Harvard Law School yesterday evening. In his talk, “The Future of Software, the Internet, and Innovation,” Microsoft Senior Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith said that technology research has declined since 2000 because the current administration is not focused on supporting basic research in the sciences. “Most of our company’s best innovations started out as basic research in our nation’s research universities...
...held off the "radical and ratbag elements," Estens turned the AES into a crusade. Perhaps a non-indigenous person is the only one who can prevail in places that have competing Aboriginal tribes and a redneck underbelly. "I advised Dick not to go into it," says friend and legal counsel Roger Butler about the personal financial liabilities Estens has had to endure ever since. "It's fortunate that this mission was undertaken when his farms could stand on their own feet...