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...says. “I can see lots of experimentation within the first year curriculum without disrupting the central features of the Socratic method,” Zittrain says. Zittrain says he hopes the strategic plan, which cuts first year class size by half, could foster increased student-faculty interaction...
...well-known technology companies. His disease had ended his career as a technical adviser to Contraves, a Swiss antiaircraft surveillance radar manufacturer. In India his illness is treated more matter-of-factly, and Kohli and his wife Teresa are able to affordably manage their bustling brood of five foster children, ranging in age from 2 to 14, with the help of a driver, a gardener and two maids...
There are plenty of people, Hsu included, who view the Net's role in broadening the political debate as beneficial. "New channels of expression foster the democratic process," says Hsu. But there are costs, particularly with the kinds of guerrilla tactics that the most technologically sophisticated activists have at their fingertips. Hackers erode the fabric of political debate as much as they challenge state control, says Cancer Omega, a systems administrator at attrition.org. "The U.S.-China cyberwar wasn't about politics," he says. "It was simply a high-tech version of two dogs bent on being the last to mark...
...That season, the Crimson-led by national champion and team captain Henry Foster `51-defeated the previously dominant Yale, 7-2. Before 1951, Yale had beaten Harvard for each of the past 10 years...
...made us all come to Harvard was the other students we would meet and get to know. The reality of this school is that many people work themselves so hard that they are miserable and lonely. It is important for the University to keep reaching out to students and foster discussions of these concerns, and ask students what they need to make them happy. This is not an unreasonable concern—students will always be competitive and stressed, to some extent, but the University (and especially the Houses) can make a difference by acknowledging that students are sometimes tired...