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...Which might be why she forgot about the entire session until last Sunday when friends began calling to congratulate her and her husband, Ramanan Thiagarajah. "We totally thought they were joking," she says. Since then, she has been inundated with calls from around the world. As it turns out, Thiagarajah is an appropriate model for the story on the globalization of India: she's Indian but grew up in Nigeria and is married to a Sri Lankan, with whom she lives in California...
...That's because the land is actually owned by developer Ralph Horowitz. The city invoked eminent domain laws to take the land from him in 1986 to build an incinerator. Unfortunately, the city forgot to ask South Central if they wanted an incinerator. They did not. So Horowitz fought city hall, which, while not impossible, does take a long time. Meanwhile, after the 1992 riots in South Central, the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, whose offices are adjacent to the land, decided to temporarily use it as a community garden. Then, in 2003, Horowitz won his land back. Last month...
...essays has varied slightly from year to year, but the one mainstay has been Emerson’s “Self-Reliance.”I thought of that essay the other day when I happened upon “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education,” by former Dean of the College and current professor Harry R. Lewis ’68. Lewis’ criticisms run the gamut, but the one that caught my eye was his description of student extracurricular involvement. With more than 300 student groups and 41 varsity...
...make the same mistakes again.Harry R. Lewis ’68 is Gordon McKay professor of Computer Science and Harvard College professor. He was dean of Harvard College from 1995 to 2003. He is the author of “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education...
...win” in 1968, the purported strangling of real bulldogs by Harvard coaches, the Crimson’s first of six national championships 116 years ago.Its reputation had preceded it—the action on the field had begun to gain a secondary relevance.Apparently, someone forgot to tell that to the 2005 Harvard football team.In a series that had offered everything imaginable since its inception in 1875, the now-annual year-end football game between Harvard and Yale achieved new heights in 2005. It lived up to its nickname: “The Game.”The Game...