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...Harvard’s plan to eliminate all fun also includes the following programs: cable TV, party grants, the Girl Talk fiasco, inviting Insane Clown Posse to YardFest 2009, appropriating Nazi gold, not admitting any hot girls, the Lamont Burrito Disaster of 2005, lethargic calendar reform, Vanserg, serving squash at 78.3 percent of meals, and the Core...
...Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, in North America. Rumor has it that Corbusier came to see the building when it was completed in 1963, only to accuse the contractor of building it upside down. Others insist that Corbusier never even saw the Carpenter Center in person.WIDENER, LAMONT AND PUSEY LIBRARIESThe lore surrounding Widener is familiar to many: namely, the bibliophile Titanic victim whose mother donated a boatload—pun intended—of money to the school, premised on the condition that Harvard instituted a swim test as a requirement for graduation.This rumor is partly true...
...teach a junior seminar this spring, left to head the President’s National Economic Council. Professor David M. Cutler ’87 departed to work with Obama on health care policy, and Professor Jeremy C. Stein joined Summers at the NEC. Visiting Professor Owen A. Lamont and Professor Raj Chetty have replaced Stein and Cutler, respectively, but department members said they are still anxious about the hiring slowdown. “If economics is going to remain as popular as it has been for the last 20 years, we need to have more faculty resources in order...
Bleary-eyed students reaching for a midnight snack in Lamont Library may have more pressing concerns than assignments and deadlines: as late as last Thursday, the library’s café still stocked nutrition bars that had been recalled during a nation-wide salmonella outbreak. Clif Bar & Company announced a voluntary recall of various CLIF and LUNA bars on Jan. 30, citing “concerns that the recalled bars contain peanut products that were manufactured by Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), which is the focus of an ongoing Salmonella investigation.” Clif?...
...Lamont, who did his doctoral studies under Stein at MIT and previously taught finance at the Yale School of Management, said he was prepared to take on Stein’s duties and that the University would be able to weather his older colleague’s absence...