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This election hardly needs an introduction, but to those overly focused on the Harvard experience, lift up your head from the coursebook long enough for this one. The presidential race promises to be the closest in years, with four prominent candidates in the fray. The Democrats are gunning to take back the House of Representatives. There are a number of high-profile, high-stakes Senate races, including the historic run of First Lady Hillary Clinton. Finally, propositions round off the ballot in many states, where school vouchers and environmental protection are at stake...
...Walking through Harvard Yard, religiosity pierces the sky with the steeple of Memorial Church. The politics, hermeneutics and iconography of religion recur endlessly in the coursebook and in our coursework. But more often than not, this is as close we come to spiritual awareness. Deep inside every Harvard students, there's a spiritual self-try to find...
...Harvard's 800-page coursebook doesn't offer tactics training (needed to bomb Iraq) or accounting (essential when applying to Lazard Freres), it's damn lucky that kids of the Crimson can fall back on Boston's other academic options. Cross-registering, be it with the Law School, the Design School, the Divinity School or MIT, can present a logistical nightmare. A cross-registree must file multiple forms, with myriad signatures, by multitudinous FAS deadlines-regardless of the time table the other school uses. Moreover, only courses taught by Harvard or MIT professors are fair game. Before...
...succor came disguised as a first-year seminar. What could be better than, as the coursebook promised, a semester filled with characters such as Macbeth and Hannibal Lecter, or Joe Christmas and Huck Finn? Intrigued by the eclectic reading and the nature of the work, I applied to two seminars: one examining the relationship between crime and literature, the other focusing on the writings of Twain and Faulkner...
...Especially the American offerings get kind of spacy," says concentrator Marc T. Horger '94. "You're never sure when you open the coursebook what what you're going to find," he says...