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...deadlock over how to prioritize the broadly defined benefits outlined this spring, the Allston Brighton North Neighbors Forum yesterday presented the task force with a three-page document outlining community benefits that Harvard should provide in conjunction with building the science complex. The list includes a kindergarten through eighth grade school and the reconstruction of a local community health center. The neighbors forum was created earlier this month with the goal of giving the community a powerful and united voice in negotiations with the city and with Harvard. But Ray Mellone, who chairs the task force composed of mayor-appointed...
...envisioned a grand environmental-education park in the depressed southwestern English county of Cornwall--with the world's biggest greenhouses as its centerpiece. All he needed was the money. Smit turned to private funders and gave them a professional pitch. "I told them, 'We are going to build the Eighth Wonder of the World in a clay pit west of Cornwall, it's going to be wonderful, and you'll want to be a part of it,'" he says. "'Also, we have no business plan.'" Amazingly, the line worked. Smit scraped together more than $100 million, and after a final...
...quarter: Polhemus drops back and throws ANOTHER INTERCEPTION TO STEVE WILLIAMS. That's Williams' eighth of the season, setting a new single-season Harvard record, and tying the career interceptions record for the Crimson. Harvard takes over at the Yale...
...discussion with author and University of Michigan professor Ruth Behar. The meal drew a “really excellent” turnout, according to Associate Director of Harvard Hillel Michael A. Simon. Elena C. Castañeda ’08, co-president of CAUSA who herself is one-eighth Jewish, noted the plethora of “non-traditional Hillel students eating here.” Susana Bejar ’08, CAUSA historian and a member of Harvard’s Sephardi Society, a club affiliated with Harvard Hillel, helped organize the event. A self-proclaimed...
...Yale’s most recent big mistake—not ending early action. We hope their admissions office enjoys reading those extra thousand early applications they’ve just received. Stressed much? Take comfort in knowing that all those extra applicants probably consider Yale their second (or eighth) choice school and will be applying to Harvard in the spring, regardless of what you offer them. But alas, come spring, over 1,000 naïve high school students will still make the mistake of matriculating at Yale. Of course, since only people prone to make bad decisions would...