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...Crimson finished a close third behind Princeton and Yale, effectively missing the Grand Final for only the second time in coach Harry Parker’s 45-year tenure. Harvard finished second behind Navy in the Petite Final.“This year, there are a lot of fast teams out there,” Medioli said. “I’m sure we’ve been racing against a tougher field than normal. In my experience, we work very, very hard all the time. I can’t look back on the season...
...Harvard in 1983. In a place where being called “idealists” carries the implication “naive”. it may at first seem odd that a group of students should protest Harvard’s ties to South Africa by means of a fast. But the week-long hunger strike is neither idealistic not overly impractical. The fasters have already dramatized on an international scale the indifference of the Harvard Corporation to repeated demands by faculty and students for divestment from companies operating in South Africa. Corporation members Hugh Calkins...
...human population grows by billions. All are agreed that the conservation movement of the future will need to be as inter-connected as the Earth's climate itself, because in a crowded, warmer world there will be no islands. Regardless of what we do, the changes will be coming fast - a report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on May 27 said that global warming was already having "profound effects" in the American West, and that the future would bring increased drought, heat waves, rainstorms, extinctions and more. We need to begin cutting our carbon immediately, but we need...
...approach creative and interesting, but it was also demonstrated remarkable foresight,” Levintin said. “She recognized the growing role of the media in international affairs 30 years ago, a time when most information still came from diplomats on the scene instead of lightning-fast CNN updates...
...move opened a debate that had until that point been kept behind closed doors. Vorenberg held fast to Harvard’s longstanding position that it could not find qualified tenure-track faculty members because the pool of such scholars was limited...