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...bait used to lure students to his talk at Leverett House might have seemed surprising: booze. Travia, director of Harvard’s Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services, staged a question and answer session on drinking in the Leverett Senior Common Room last night, underlining his frank and pragmatic approach to undergraduate alcohol use. “We are not prohibitionist by any stretch of the imagination,” said Travia, as he engaged a dozen students in a discussion about drinking, its health effects, and Harvard’s alcohol policies. “Telling people...
What will the overturning of former Wall Street dealmaker Frank Quattrone's conviction for obstruction of justice have on the Enron trial? It has certainly heartened the attorneys who are defending Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, the two former Enron executives facing charges of fraud and conspiracy...
Editor’s note: Former Harvard hurler Frank Herrmann ’06, a prospect with the Cleveland Indians, reported to camp in Winter Haven, Fla., in early March. This is his diary. Things are starting to heat up down here in Winter Haven as we approach the unofficial halfway point. Until recently, spring training had been light and cordial, full of “get to know you” meetings and explanations of what was to be expected. Now, it’s no longer the 80-degree days that are making players sweat but the fact...
...leading writers, with a novel that caught the mood of the nation. Hoyo Kazoku, or Embracing Family, sold briskly, won the prestigious Tanizaki Junichiro Literary Prize?and then, much like Kojima, sank into obscurity. Now, 41 years later, the book is being published in English. It offers a frank look back at a pivotal moment in modern Japanese history and at the author who helped define...
...take a lunch only if it's a Happy Meal. But politics stops at the bedroom's edge. Post-Abramoff Sudden Virtue Syndrome has yet to result in a ban on the world's most obvious conflict of interest, one that is, in the words of Public Citizen director Frank Clemente, "way up there on the unseemly scale." "We live in a different world than we did 30 or 40 years ago, and people should recognize it," a would-be reformer told the New York Times...