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When I sat down alone last Sunday at Annenberg, I spotted the behemoth that is the Sunday Boston Globe lying nearby. I wasn’t going to turn down any opportunity to seem busy in the eyes of judgmental passing freshmen, and I found a piece on a common, yet intriguing, subject of the Globe: trashing Harvard. In the opening paragraph of Christopher Shea’s article “Secret Societies: Can the Ivy League’s Big Three live down their history of discrimination?” Shea relates an anecdote about bigoted Harvard admissions...
...based Space Adventures is now offering suborbital flights?that's just beyond our atmosphere, 100 km above the earth?from 2008 for those who have racked up 20 million points with American Express, or 10 million air miles with U.S. Airways. That's equivalent to 400 times around the globe. Until then, for 275,000 air miles and $8,000, would-be space adventurers can take a flight on a MiG-25 jet fighter, which gets you 25 km high?you can see the earth's curvature. Or trade in 250,000 air miles and $2,000 to get weightless...
...based Space Adventures is now offering suborbital flights - that's just beyond our atmosphere, 100 km above the earth - from 2008 for those who have racked up 20 million points with American Express, or 10 million air miles with U.S. Airways. That's equivalent to 400 times around the globe. Until then, for 275,000 air miles and $8,000, would-be space adventurers can take a flight on a MiG-25 jet fighter, which gets you 25 km high - you can see the earth's curvature. Or trade in 250,000 air miles...
...Like It,” that “all the world’s a stage.” This heightened competition put pressure on Shakespeare to write plays that would be recognized above the other companies’ productions. Moreover, Shakespeare was a shareholder of the Globe Theatre—an unconventional position for a playwright of the time. This partial ownership allowed him more control over what shows his company would put on stage. The combination of these factors inspired and challenged Shakespeare, and spurred his writing to be better than it had ever been. Shapiro?...
...unique and valuable ways it can help as an institution of higher learning.Harvard is not a charity. Instead, the $25.9 billion the University has invested across the world in its endowment is earmarked for a similarly noble purpose. The educational and research efforts that Harvard sponsors around the globe are making this world a better place. Harvard grants allow low-income students to attend the College with no parental contribution. They sponsor groundbreaking medical research (which, among other things, has made Harvard the premier place for stem-cell research in the U.S.), and they sponsor initiatives to solve longstanding health...