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...Don’t Tell,’” said Brooks, administrative chair of the Harvard College Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Political Coalition. But Brooks also expressed his desire for more sweeping changes in the relationship between the military and the gay community. “We hope to one day see [Faust] speak at the ROTC commissioning service in which openly LGBT students can also participate,” he said. —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...
...ADAY)!” has become the cry to rally support among Canaday Hall residents who hope to dispute the Freshman Intramural (IM) staff’s decision to change the format of its spring tennis tournament. According to Brad M. Paraszczak ’11, a Canaday IM representative and leader of the protest effort, “the last-minute change to the tennis competition and unfair multiplier that puts bigger dorms at a disadvantage” has resulted in “mortal combat” with rival Apley Hall. According to the Frosh IM Web site...
Imprecise measurement has long crippled efforts to find Earth-like planets that may represent scientists’ best hope at finding extraterrestrial life, but Harvard scientists say a new laser-based measuring tool could bring the universe into sharper focus. The astro-comb allows astronomers to discover Earth-size planets, which are most likely to support extraterrestrial life because larger planets tend to be entirely gaseous and inhospitable to organisms like those on Earth. The laser provides a way to measure the near-imperceptible changes in a star’s light that are induced by orbiting planets. Planet gravity...
...films online, mentioning that he had seen a posting describing “The Visitor” as “liberal propaganda.” “Liberal Propaganda!” McCarthy said. “I’m going to read it now! I hope they’ve seen the movie!” The audience laughed in response. Despite the heavy subject matter of the film, McCarthy seemed to move from serious issues, such as immigration, to lighter topics with relative ease. Whatever the political nuances that viewers may draw from his latest...
...Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama tells an amusing story about his first tour through downstate Illinois, when he had the audacity to order Dijon mustard on his cheeseburger at a TGI Friday's. His political aide hastily informed the waitress that Obama didn't want Dijon at all, and thrust a yellow bottle of ordinary-American heartland-values mustard at him instead. The perplexed waitress informed Obama that she had Dijon if he wanted. He smiled and said thanks. "As the waitress walked away, I leaned over and whispered that I didn't think there were any photographers around," Obama...