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Crimson editors over the decades have made some memorable attempts to capture exam period in newsprint. The following op-ed, “Beating the System,” won the Dana Reed Prize for undergraduate writing in 1951. The Crimson proudly ran it every reading period until 1962, when it irked one maligned and anonymous grader enough to reply. The Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things: knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1.) flunking out; 2.) doing work; or 3.) working...
...Dana-Farber Cancer Institute announced last Friday that it had received a $16.5 million donation to fund cancer research, marking the largest gift from an individual in the Harvard-affiliated institute’s 58-year history. The institute’s chief scientific officer, Barrett J. Rollins, said the donation will be used to research proteins and their functions at a soon-to-be-created center named for the donors, Jack Blais, an optical coating entrepreneur who has been a trustee of Dana-Farber since 2002, and his wife, Shelley. In addition to Friday’s donation...
...Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCCC) and the University of Massachusetts, Boston, were jointly awarded a $4.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health earlier this week. The grant, to be paid over five years, will be used to combat health disparities in the Boston area. “This marks the beginning of a bold new effort to solve one of health care’s most troubling problems—health disparities that affect so many Americans because of their backgrounds,” Sen. Edward M. Kennedy...
...Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $38/28/23/20. (KAF)Scissorfight. Boston-based punk rockers Scissorfight, whose vocalist, Ironlung, once dislocated his shoulder in the middle of a show and spent the remainder of said show attempting to punch it back into place, team up with the Neighborhoods, Clouds, and Dana Colley for a raucous night of music. The Middle East Downstairs. 8 p.m. 18+. Tickets available from the Middle East box office or through Ticketmaster. $15. (PRC)Clandestino: Rock In Spanish Dance Party. The event will feature Lucybell, a noted, fiery Latin-American band. T.T. the Bear’s Place...
...outsourcing of torture practices to Syria, Morocco, Jordan and Egypt—all of which have been cited for human-rights violations by the State Department. A corollary to this practice is CIA operated secret prisons in Thailand and Eastern Europe, as recently reported by Dana Priest in The Washington Post. Such forays into ethically murky territory—to say the least—do no small harm to U.S. credibility abroad. On Jan. 27, President Bush assured us that “torture is never acceptable, nor do we hand over people to countries that do torture...