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...sidekick, “Shopping Period,” came to a jarring end. And while freshman Facebook statuses bemoaning its conclusion have begun to pop up across the Harvard network, I can’t help but question the legitimacy of this nostalgia. Because, to be quite frank, Harvard is populated by a group of people who were undoubtedly painfully awkward campers in childhood, and why any such camper would virtually pine for a return to the contrived, queasy confines of any camp-like situation beguiles me. Flash back to the summer of 1998. Imagine Peter, my twenty-something...
...bath." But it also makes for quick and easy implementation. "When you go to a financial institution and say, 'We'd like to buy your bad assets,' they're going to say, 'Let's sit down and talk right this minute.' " Some on Capitol Hill, including Representative Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat who heads the House Financial Services Committee, think the deal is too sweet for Wall Street and are pushing to give taxpayers a piece of equity in the companies they would bail...
...extensive list of athletes who came close to wearing crimson. This history is largely anecdotal and has accumulated over generations. It begins with James Connolly, the first modern Olympic champion, who left Harvard to compete in the 1896 Athens Olympics. The chronicle continues today with the likes of Frank Ben-Eze who rescinded his commitment to play basketball at Harvard and, instead, chose Davidson...
...presidential campaign of former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney. He currently serves on the John McCain for President Ad Council. Carrie Sheffield, a first-year public policy student at the Harvard Kennedy School, said that she was impressed by Castellano’s broad range of knowledge and his frank assessment of the heated presidential race. “I was interested in his insider perspective and surprised that he spoke so favorably about Obama,” Sheffield said...
...central conflict is the migration of Jamaican soldiers to England to fight in World War II. Unlike Smith’s sprawling epics, “Small Island” is a multigenerational work that draws its narrative lines neatly along principle characters who take turns recounting their stories. Frank and unassuming, Levy’s work introduces casual readers to more sophisticated issues of racial and cultural identity without overwhelming them. Levy does not pit Jamaica and England against each other in an artificial dichotomy that would please the lazy reader looking for an easy postcolonial conflict. Instead...