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...History were a final club, History 10a and 10b would be one hell of a yearlong punch. Rough in practice but with marked reward, these two classes are the hazing in the History concentrator’s academic experience. Required of all concentrators until the 2006-2007 school year, both are Western history survey courses that cover thousands of years–in just one year. Much like the curriculum and readings, the makeup of the classes tends to be composed primarily of white males. History 10a is the paradigm for many students’ larger intellectual gripes about Harvard...
...you’re unlucky (or lazy) you will wind up with a disgruntled, underfed grad student who’d rather heat his apartment with your paper drafts than read them. Senior year is when “Hist and Lit” turns into “Hell and Lit”—or a book deal, depending on the quality of your thesis. “How does one select a successful topic?” you ask. There are three questions to keep in mind. Is your topic extremely obscure? Does it have...
...what are you going to do with your life?”) But ignore all those Ec majors and pre-meds—you’ve made a supremely wise decision, even you made it because you don’t know what the hell else to study. Because while they spend hundreds of hours a semester in the unflattering fluorescent lights of a lab or scribbling out equations on their so-called “midterms” that occur on a weekly basis, you’ll be relaxing quietly in a dark lecture hall looking...
...living artist ever to launch an album at No. 1. Notoriously reclusive, Dylan lately even seems to be enjoying his public, publishing a memoir, deejaying a show on XM Satellite Radio and endorsing a Broadway musical. "They say, 'Dylan never talks,'" the singer told Rolling Stone. "Well, what the hell is there to say?" How about, Welcome back...
DIED. Guy Gabaldon, 80, who as an 18-year-old Marine in World War II earned the Navy Cross for persuading more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians to surrender during the Battle of Saipan, a feat depicted in the 1960 movie Hell to Eternity; in Old Town, Fla. Relying on adrenaline and a few Japanese phrases, Gabaldon convinced his enemies that the alternative to surrendering with dignity was a more violent capture by awaiting U.S. forces. "I must have seen too many John Wayne movies," he later wrote. "Because what I was doing was suicidal...