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...GUARD SITTING in a plastic garden chair in the Gem Palace garage may or may not be listening as I spell my name for the second time. "Marie-Hl??ne. I'm here to see Mah-ree Eh-len," I insist, mindful that his reserve could be linked to the millions of dollars in jewels just upstairs. His wobbly head shake becomes more vigorous. "He only knows Gujarati. He says you can go up," a male voice calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Passage to India | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...there’s l??affaire Shleifer (from which he recused himself). And his favoring some academic departments over others—have Harvard’s administrators ever preferred one branch of learning to another? For the answer, divide $250,000 by $85, vide supra. And his active participation on ad hoc committees. Didn’t he understand the use of the rubber stamp? And he locked horns with a dean, which is also, provided one steadfastly refuses to consult precedents, without precedent...

Author: By James R Russell | Title: O Captain! My Captain! | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

Back in Harvard Yard, in the rarefied confines of Harvard’s Houghton Collection, resides “Des destinées de l??ame...,” a collection of essays meditating on the human spirit by Arsène Houssaye, a French poet and essayist...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Skinny on Harvard’s Rare Book Collection | 2/2/2006 | See Source »

From a room looking out onto the Eiffel Tower, Galison wrote that he is drinking “about 10 times more coffee than is good for me” while working as a visiting professor at L??Ecole Normale Supeieure and L??Ecole des Mines...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Galison, Ulrich Nab New Titles | 2/1/2006 | See Source »

...Nike shoes cost up to $200 a pair. Seafood restaurants in town charge $10 a plate. "In America, we could go to restaurants whenever we wanted to," says the teenager Carlos. "Here, we can't afford it anymore." And the cycle of migration is self-propelling. Bartender Alfonso Mayo L??pez, 43, lost his job in the fall when the last bar in Tuxpan closed because all its customers had gone up north. L??pez now sees fewer and fewer reasons not to leave his daughter and wife and join his brother in the Hamptons. "The more difficult it gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Life of the Migrants Next Door | 1/29/2006 | See Source »

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