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...said. “I’m prevented from serving my country in the most open and sincere way.” On May 24, Harvard students—regardless of sexual orientation or desire to serve in the military—will embark on a week-long coalition-sponsored trip around the east coast to protest the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. The tour, entitled “Right to Serve,” will begin in Boston and make stops in Portland, Maine, New York City...
...project, which the two co-produced, started in November 2006 when Mayer approached his former high school classmate Bethel about putting together a film about Atlanta. Both felt strongly about their home city, one positively and one negatively, and wanted to embark upon an artistic adventure devoted...
...barren wasteland of Cabot House to the “quaint” walkthrough triples of Dunster, many students currently preparing for their housing lotteries are faced with less than ideal options. In recent years, Harvard has done little to combat this problem, even as our peer institutions have embarked on ambitious housing projects such as Princeton’s construction of the $100 million Whitman College and Yale’s extensive renovation of its 12 residential colleges. But hope is on the way. Last week, University Hall announced that Harvard would embark on a $1 billion, 15-year...
...with the usual emotions teenagers feel when they're about to embark on an adventure-without their parents-that some 40 students from Elim Christian College in Auckland, New Zealand assembled on Sunday morning. Their school-holiday excursion entailed a five-hour bus ride to an outdoor center in the Central North Island, where they were to spend five days bonding with one another, developing their leadership skills and having...
...we’re told a tale of reverse immigration: “Your parents had decided to leave Cambridge, not for Atlanta or Arizona, as some other Bengalis had, but to move all the way back to India, abandoning the struggle that my parents and their friends had embarked upon,” Hema says of her schoolgirl crush, Kaushik. Hema and Kaushik’s story speaks to the mutability of possible futures and the tenuousness of forged connections. Thrown together briefly during the period of Kaushik’s childhood spent in Cambridge, when the two fortuitously...