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It seems that hardly a day goes by that there is not an editorial or a screaming poster in the Yard that decries Harvard students' evident apathy towards political affairs. To a certain extent, the problem of apathy is overstated. An impressive 700 students showed up to the Phillips Brooks...

Author: By Andrel Cerny, | Title: Harvard Pols Need Vision | 1/12/1996 | See Source »

"Just to look at the items that were taken, a very knowledgeable type of person would take these kinds of things, if they're taken for resale," Johnson said. "There's a very esoteric market for this kind of thing."

Author: By Victor Chen, | Title: African Artifacts Stolen From Peabody Museum | 4/26/1995 | See Source »

They also mixed the new with the old, adding several pieces from their esoteric 1994 "No Quarter" release, which fans greeted with thoughtful--if confused--applause.

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: Fill 'Er Up With Led | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

With Grandin and other subjects, Sacks has refined the case history into an art form. As his friend and colleague New York City neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg puts it, "Oliver has salvaged the uniqueness of patients from statistical averaging." Indeed, each essay seems like an extended house call from an old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OLIVER SACKS: HOUSE CALLS AT THE EDGE OF THE MIND | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

I feel that this decision was the result of the Core program's general desire to remain a bastion of obscure and esoteric education in which professors can indulge their scholarly impulses, often at the expense of their students. It's no secret that professors dislike surveys; they feel they...

Author: By David H. Goldbrenner, | Title: A Decision Rotten to the Core | 3/7/1995 | See Source »

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