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While Bostonians once poured tea over the side of a ship in defiance of British rule, four Harvard seniors will soon serve tea in England as ambassadors of Anglophonic solidarity. Four undergraduates—Joey M. Hanzich ’06, Sylvia W. Houghteling ’06, Om L. Lala ’06, and Jonathan A. Blazek ’06—were awarded Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships last Saturday, which will send them in October across the Atlantic to study at Cambridge University.Hanzich, Houghteling, and Lala plan to pursue Masters of Philosophy (M. Phil) degrees and Blazek...
...that U.S. students' math and science scores are plummeting. Since 1995, fourth-graders have maintained their scores, and eighth-graders have slightly improved theirs, according to the 2003 "Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study." But other places, like England, Hong Kong and New Zealand, are improving faster, and some, like Singapore and Japan, are miles ahead. Even eighth-graders in much poorer countries like Estonia and Hungary outperformed their U.S. peers, who came in ninth of the 44 nations on the science portion of the test...
Folk the world over have been journeying to sacred sites since the Bronze Age, and a new exhibition could tempt latter-day pilgrims to make the journey to Oxford, England. "Pilgrimage: The Sacred Journey" runs at the Ashmolean Museum until April 2. It includesa 15th century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and the 13th century casket that once held the relics of Canterbury's martyr St. Thomas Becket, as well as rare objects such as a 5th century sandstone head of the Hindu god Shiva and a 13th century Buddhist plaque from Burma, above. Pilgrim mores...
...DIED. CORETTA SCOTT KING, 78, widow of Martin Luther King Jr. and advocate for civil rights; at a hospital in Rosarito Beach, Mexico. After breaking free of rural poverty in Alabama, King met her preacher husband while she was a graduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music. Following the Rev. King's assassination in 1968, she sought to sustain her husband's legacy-largely through the King Center for Non-Violent Social Change, which she founded in Atlanta-while pushing for gender and racial equality under the banner of the civil-rights movement...
...going out there trying to push it to get back into peak condition.” Harlow may not even have a chance to continue her rise next week, as snowfall counts remain low and conditions for skiing remain poor across New England. “We’re looking forward to a very historic Dartmouth Carnival [next week],” Graves said. “But right now we don’t know where the cross-country competition is going to be held.” On the men’s side, sophomore Matt Basilico...