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...Indian Airlines. "The people from my village thought I was a very big man and could show them the aircraft," he says. "But due to security I could not." In 2003, he bought a 20-year-old Indian Airlines plane "that had met with a small ground incident," cut it into parts and reassembled it in Dwarka, a fast-growing neighborhood of laundry-draped balconies, weed-infested sidewalks and burgeoning middle-class aspirations. Because space is limited, the plane has been cut down to about two-thirds of its normal length and is held in place by thick concrete pillars...
...orchestra’s early days.As well as providing a valuable outlet for musicians with other academic interests to pursue a treasured hobby—most of its current members are concentrating in fields other than music—the HRO has also serves as a professional training ground. Many current and past members of prominent American and international orchestras have played in the HRO, according to Yannatos.John D. Kapusta ’09, a trumpet player as well as a vocalist in the five-year joint degree program between Harvard and the New England Conservatory, is serving as assistant...
...hard. You can’t eat half the entrees in the dining hall and Felipe’s is sort of a let down. But non-beer drinkers have it even worse. Imagine being veg and going to a party to toss ping pong balls into cups of ground beef, or doing a handstand over a keg of steak, or entering a lottery to win a stein of foie gras. It’s simply outrageous...
...Harvard defense has been like the yellow layer of this Halloween standard, the bright bottom-most component. The Crimson is best in the league and fifth in the country against the run, allowing just over 85 yards on the ground per game. It’s second in the league in total defense and scoring defense, and leads it in sacks and interceptions (including a nation-best six picks from senior corner Steven Williams). Most impressively, the unit hasn’t allowed a second-half touchdown since Week 1. Last week’s 37-point showing versus Columbia...
...rest of the University as a top concern. We see no way that Expository Writing in its current form could be anything less than a second class program within FAS. Consequently, we hope Expository Writing will be discarded and replaced by a new system designed from the ground up.We hope that the defining feature of this new system is that it would be mandatory only for students who fail to demonstrate basic competency on a beefed-up writing placement test given during freshman week. Most students who stake Expository Writing in the spring do just as well in writing-intensive...