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Graduate students aren’t alone in their military pursuits. Although one may not peg a prestigious liberal arts school as a training ground for future military officers, a small but committed group of Harvard undergraduates would beg to differ. Harvard’s Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) is made up of students who take on a full course load at Harvard while training to become military officers. Although most ROTC cadets get to attend Harvard for free, they are required to serve at least eight years in the military upon graduation. “I think...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Soldiers: ROTC's Challenge | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...Outstanding academic achievement is necessary in order to be selected for membership into Phi Beta Kappa, but the standards differ between the three elected groups...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Accepts 24 | 4/17/2007 | See Source »

...know that, at best, you’re wasting your abilities, and at worst, you’re wasting your life. Literature, we’re told, is a nice, even necessary diversion, but it’s not real life. Roberto Bolaño begs to differ. As a young man, Bolaño gave up everything to pursue a life in poetry, believing that one should take poetry as seriously as he takes life, that if the author lived what he wrote, the reader would live it, too. This absurd, desperate, noble idea is at the heart...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wielding Knives and Words: For Bolaño, Both Cut Deep | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...this, it seems, is where we differ: where changes in a few measures of teen problems (over a very short period of years) appear to be favorable over the time period you're concerned with, I'm having trouble seeing those changes as "improvements." Meanwhile, other measures (say, of attempted suicide by teens) have seen no improvement over that same period, and still other measures (of academic performance in high school, use of inhalants, illegal and legal use of prescription drugs, and so on) have gotten worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Debate: Are Teens in Turmoil? | 3/30/2007 | See Source »

...Still, the industry faces a host of technical obstacles. Handset technology, network bandwidth and even screen sizes differ among phone manufacturers, countries and carriers, so campaigns must be tailored to individual markets. "It is virtually impossible for a brand or its agency to make a cross-carrier media buy for mobile," says eMarketer senior analyst John du Pre Gauntt. "Brands, agencies and carriers will need to cooperate or risk losing out on one of the world's most prevalent interactive platforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spam, to Go | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

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