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...least a dozen Harvard undergraduates and graduate students have committed suicide since 1990, although Harvard officials could not provide exact statistics yesterday...
...read only behind closed doors in University Hall and in department heads’ offices. A week later, after another Faculty meeting, professors again questioned Summers’ handling of Allston, complaining that they had not been provided with as many details as they would like on the exact breakdown of Allston expenditures...
Well, I should say first of all that I can only take Harvard in small doses – two years at a time, to be exact. I took a year off in the middle because I wasn’t getting out of it what I should have been… Suffice it to say that what I will remember most about Harvard is the people I was able to come in contact with...
Like his father, Dan’s eye is on film—he’s writing his English thesis on John Ford and is currently applying to production programs at various film schools. “I know it looks like [we’re] exact copies, but we really go about it in a different way,” Dan says of he and his father’s paths from Harvard to Hollywood...
...seconds, someone in America has a stroke; every three minutes, someone dies of one. That translates into 700,000 strokes and 165,000 deaths each year, making ischemia (the technical term for the most common type of stroke) the nation's No. 3 killer. Even among survivors, strokes can exact a terrible toll: aftereffects range from difficulty walking, speaking and carrying out the everyday activities of life to depression and paralysis...