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...more difficult words. At times the word difficulty seem to vary dramatically from contestant to contestant. One ousted speller highlighted this trend with the statement, “Are you serious? We went from shrapnel to Gethsemane?” As the competition reached its later stages, the field was trimmed dramatically due to the appearance of words that not even Microsoft Word’s spellcheck could comprehend, such as fomites, skookum, and sialogogue. By this point, the number of contestants was reduced to four: Mass. Hall’s Athena L. Lao, Greenough’s Steven...
...understanding is that there’s going to be very few searches in the next few years and that we don’t have a model in FAS of automatic replacing in the same field when somebody vacates,” said history professor Andrew D. Gordon, who is on the Faculty Council, which discussed the possibility of a faculty retirement incentive package at their Wednesday meeting...
...this bloody newspaper!” Globe editor Cameron Lynne (Helen Mirren) yells at her reporters in one scene. The paper is failing, and Cameron is caught in the conflict between traditional journalism and new technology—a conflict embodied in Della, a blogger, and Cal, an established field reporter. While it bemoans the current crisis in print media, the movie also hearkens back to a not-so-distant past when investigative journalism had the power to change politics. It is a view that is at once sentimental, nostalgic, and not entirely unproblematic. However, it really doesn?...
...checked his voicemail messages to learn that he was one of eight Harvard graduate students to snag the award. The fellowship recognizes new Americans—immigrants and their children—for creativity, accomplishment, and citizenship. The winners are highly motivated, focused, and committed to a particular field, ranging from public health to foreign policy. Program Director Warren F. Ilchman said that the fellowship aims to identify leaders and help them “make the contribution they are capable of making.” That eight of this year’s 31 fellows are Harvard students...
Polo fans say few things are as inspiring as watching eight majestic thoroughbred horses maneuver over a 300-yard-long field. But as anyone who was at the U.S. Open polo tournament in Wellington, Fla., last Sunday has attested, few things are as shocking as seeing those same horses stagger and drop dead. Twenty-one polo ponies belonging to the Lechuza Caracas team from Venezuela died either before, during or after Lechuza's Sunday afternoon match...