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...Crimson should look more carefully at France. There are some (minor) factual errors in your stimulating piece in support of Sarkozy, but when you talk about “France’s demographic decline” you are making a serious mistake. France has actually the highest fertility rate of the European Union in 2005, even ahead of booming Ireland. Yet, Eurobarometer polls show that French are the most pessimistic of all Europeans with regards to their future. The French paradox, if ever there was one, lies here: how come so many people making so many babies...

Author: By Éloi Laurent | Title: Sarkozy Has a Difficult Job Ahead Indeed | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

Among women’s sports, representation was relatively lower according to The Crimson’s unofficial count, in keeping with national trends. The female team with the highest percentage of African-Americans proved to be basketball, at 16.7 percent—compared to a 43.7 percent national average—while fencing ranked second at 15.4 percent. This data suggests that there are less than twenty female African-American athletes on campus, in total...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How Fair is Fair Harvard? | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

Even among the biggest sports with the highest expectations, however, things didn’t always used to be this good...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How Fair is Fair Harvard? | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

Created in the early 1980’s to maintain minimum levels of academic excellence in the Ivy League, the AI combines one’s highest SAT I and SAT II scores with high school class rank in order to assign each applicant a value ranging from 60 to 240. The league then sets three main controls: first, it establishes a universal floor, below which any candidate must also possess extenuating circumstances in order to be admitted; second, it mandates that the average AI of a given year’s aggregate recruiting class must fall within one standard...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How Fair is Fair Harvard? | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...third floor main reading room with all of its motion and commotion, check out the upper-level reading room, the “quiet zone.” When you’re ready to re-gain your sanity, however, abandon the mountain-folk of Lamont’s highest floor (and the lone, miniature pine-tree that adorns the middle of the room) to return to lower altitudes. First Floor Group Study Area. Most of the 40-year-old Lammy randos that look like they could use a good shit-shave-shower combo don’t venture down...

Author: By Mark A. Pacult, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Out with Park Place, in with Pusey | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

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