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...Crimson back Steven Williams, there is one annual anomaly that brings the Harvard student body together in the name of sports: The Game.The final whistle’s sound each November cements the memories. Thanks to a league ban on postseason playoffs, there is no chance to change history??no conference title contest, bowl game, or national championship. The memories linger with coaches, players, and fans—exultant or despondent, sweet or sour.For the Class of 2008, those reminiscences are largely happy ones. Not only did the Crimson team win three of the four Harvard...
...winners this year, requires its students to enroll in History 99, a small class that meets every two to three weeks. “I would be willing to guess we’re the most structured of any of the departments in the College,” said History??s Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies Adam G. Beaver...
...France, President Nicolas Sarkozy introduced a pedagogical emphasis on the Holocaust to his country’s classrooms. But while this attempt to address and correct one of history??s great crimes demonstrated laudable self-awareness, it also had the character of a stunt: Where was the mention of France’s more recent oversteps in colonial Algeria? Perhaps education design should be left to the educators, and not the politicians. It is, of course, difficult to ask or impel any major power to come to grips with its past errors, but the nearer states draw...
...Harvard begins construction on a four-building science complex—the first piece of the largest expansion in Harvard’s 372-year-old history??residents say that the most important factor that determines the quality of relations with expanding institutions is not what or where they plan to build. Rather, it is whether residents feel that schools are willing to include neighbors in every step along...
...frequent drama because there were cases involving abortion, voting rights, the meaning of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and more. Marshall himself was larger than life—not self-important. He was full of amazing stories about presidents and civil rights leaders and great figures in American history??many of whom he actually knew, such as the Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. Marshall was one of the world’s best storytellers and I would say that every day was a privilege to be able to interact with...