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Many courses draw huge crowds because they are noted "guts." Others fill the largest lecture halls because they are required. But there are a few courses at Harvard that students flock to simply because they are "fun" to attend...
...largest University Hall shake-ups in years, Harvard announced the appointment of three new deans of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS...
There's more. Down at City Hall, Harvard has consistently used its muscle as Cambridge's largest landlord to oppose new zoning petitions designed to limit real estate development. Even when the community's best interest is at stake, Harvard has pursued its own agenda and systematically opposed height restrictions and preservation measures in Harvard Square. Last spring the University even thwarted a legislative effort to require commercial developers to build low income housing in the city...
...airplane engine that caught fire on a Boeing 737 jet in Manchester, England, two weeks ago, causing an explosion and fire that killed 55 passengers. In reaction, the FAA ordered U.S. airlines to schedule inspections of all similar JT8D-15 airplane engines made by Pratt & Whitney, the nation's largest manufacturer of aircraft engines...
...release of Black Politician Nelson Mandela, he was arrested under a law that permits the authorities to hold him indefinitely. Mandela, a principal leader of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), has been in prison for more than 20 years. In a further crackdown, the government outlawed the country's largest organization of black secondary school pupils, the Congress of South African Students. The group is an affiliate of the United Democratic Front (U.D.F.), the multiracial antiapartheid organization that has been at the center of the current protests...