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Laurence H. Tribe ’62, the Loeb University professor at Harvard, was scheduled to judge the moot court but had to leave upon notice that his dog, Chloe, had been found “shaking like a leaf” on the streets. The traumatized Chloe had fled the sound of a fire alarm in Tribe’s house, jumped a fence, and raced down Brattle Street, where a passerby waited with her while Tribe dashed the mile to the rescue...

Author: By Erin F. Riley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Desegregation Case Argued at Law School | 11/20/2006 | See Source »

...terrible, but this stuff is minor. Pick your battles, I guess.” HISTORY OF A STEREOTYPELike Jews at the turn of the century, Asians in America and at Harvard often come from immigrant families. Many Asian students cite the experiences of their parents or grandparents, who often fled politically unstable countries for a more secure life in the United States, as a significant factor in decisions about career paths. Lisa S. Pao ’08, an English concentrator and second-generation immigrant, identifies that mentality as a source of the stereotype. “You watch what...

Author: By and Alwa A. Cooper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Fighting for Depth | 11/15/2006 | See Source »

...college football’s powerhouses. The region’s most recognized program—Joe Paterno’s Penn State Nittany Lions—has long neglected East Coast competition to tackle the Midwest’s finest in the Big Ten. Even Boston College fled the inappropriately named Big East...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Game Can't Top Oklahoma Football | 11/15/2006 | See Source »

...Baker aide calls "the orderly transition and exit from Iraq." Someone who has worked with him describes Gates as "serious, subtle, reflective, never curt or abrupt." Departing CIA directors are flooded with offers of corporate jobs and strategic intelligence posts. Instead, when Gates left government in early 1993, he fled to Washington State, where he spent the next few years in a library working on his memoirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for an Iraq Exit Strategy | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...flooding localized to the D, E, and F entryways, but, unfortunately, not to their bathrooms. Congestion from deep in the bowels of Eliot caused water, that made the Charles River look potable, to spring from the shower drains and fill the rooms of a few unlucky souls. The inhabitants fled to not-so-nearby Dunster House as their infected common rooms began to be decontaminated. An event such as this can only be interpreted as the will of a higher power for us to say something cute: Perhaps this is a clear reason why being Quadded isn?...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Smell of Irony | 11/7/2006 | See Source »

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