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The recent resignation of University President Lawrence H. Summers has predictably generated waves across the country. Harvard is not just an elite university; it has a special place in American culture because of its history, its influential professors, and undoubtedly its marketing of the Harvard brand. So the fact that...
But last Tuesday, just weeks after news broke that Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby had been forced from his post, Kirby’s name had all but disappeared from the front page of this paper, as tensions between the Faculty and President Lawrence H. Summers violently resurfaced...
Halfway through the Harvard women’s hockey team’s matchup with rival Brown, a sense that the game would end scoreless surely crept into the minds of many of the 631 fans who came out to Bright Hockey Center.The story of the 0-0 final could...
Russians are known for being tough negotiators, but their decision last week to cut off Ukraine's supplies of natural gas in order to secure agreement for a big gas-price hike may have been a little too tough. The dispute was rapidly resolved. But the shocked reaction in Europe...
The “fuzzy math” fracas was not an isolated case. Assertiveness has trumped accuracy, some have alleged, elsewhere on Gordon’s campaign trail.