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...stage is definitely set for the impossible to happen again. The two teams will square off at the Harford Civic Center in Hartford, Conn., located just a short drive away from Cambridge. Harvard could possibly have a slight home-court advantage on Sunday, a privilege the Crimson has yet to enjoy in any of its trips to the Big Dance...
...Eisenstein ’10, who lives on the same floor as Kobiljar, her friend stayed up until 3 a.m. perfecting her proposal. “The most difficult part of the application process was coming up with the idea—thinking of something substantial that could happen in one summer,” Kobiljar said. In high school she organized fundraisers to benefit a Bosnian orphanage, and she spent the past two summers working for Friendship Without Borders at a camp in Sarajevo designed to help children traumatized by war. “From comparable projects...
People in Japan and everywhere need to understand what really happened during WWII, that the world may take measures to assure that such events never happen again. As such, Japan (and every other country) needs textbooks that portray the events of the WWII period accurately, as well as a frank and open dialog about the horrors of WWII both among academics, and between academics and the general public. But the current government of Japan represents a constituency in which the majority of individuals were not of adult age during the Second World War. As such, although it is their duty...
...Moorcroft referred to this theory in his class Biological Sciences 55 but says he’s not necessarily a proponent of it. “There have been simulations that support this,” he says. “There has been a prediction that this will happen by 2050.” But he also says that other predictions directly conflict with this assessment. When pressed for his personal opinion, he is firm. “If you asked me whether I believed that theory, my answer would be no,” he says...
...Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies Sheila Jasanoff ’64, the uncertainty about what the future holds in store is a motivating factor behind the teaching of these theories. “We don’t know how fast these climate changes are going to happen,” she says. “The margin of uncertainty about any of these problems is great enough that we could be very badly surprised.” The fact that our lens into the future is cloudy provides an impetus to teach these ideas in a cautionary...