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Tomorrow we will once again enter the throes of Harvard's most dreaded semi-annual endeavor, exam period--the season for primal screams, skyrocketing sleep deficits and frustrated yearnings for a midnight slice of Tommy's. In these weeks, sometimes even the brightest scholars make desperate appeals to their guardian angels...
...enormous success of the cantata series started as a grassroots student endeavor. Craig Smith took over as music director at Emmanuel in 1970, while still a piano student under Russell Sherman at the New England Conservatory. The church's choir director became ill and Smith was asked to temporarily fill in. He notes, "I sort of started one week and never stopped." At the beginning of his tenure, Smith decided to incorporate the performance of Bach's cantatas, which he loved passionately, into the liturgy...
...scientists were selected for past contributions so there are no repetitions," he said. "They have all done something different. Although it's not a unified history, it's a book to give you the idea of the unity of all scientific endeavor...
There has been a lot of undue controversy regarding the Statistics 100 project that Mark Veblen and I undertook last spring. Our endeavor was gravely misrepresented in Juan E. Garcia and Edgar Salivar's guest commentary titled "The March of La Raza" (Opinion, October 21, 1996), and in an article by Devi Sengupta, a co-president of the Minority Student Alliance in the Harvard Independent (October 3 1996). It is not surprising that both commentaries completely missed the point of our project since neither of the authors asked for a copy of the our report. One would think that...
...WARREN, N.J.; founder, the Valerie Fund When his daughter Valerie was battling cancer, Goldstein and his family were forced to take her to New York for treatment unavailable in their home state. After her death at age nine in 1976, he started the Valerie Fund, a money-raising endeavor that has spawned New Jersey's largest network of pediatric- oncology centers. "We wish we didn't have to grow, but unfortunately the disease runs rampant," he says. "We hope someday to go out of business...