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...past is something everybody shares. It is not a special interest. It belongs to all of us and the entire planet,” Professor of Latin Kathleen M. Coleman said. “I want to state the danger as simply as possible: a person who has no sense of the past cannot imagine the future...
Although Roxbury Latin School had tried to keep Conant out—his mother said he couldn’t spell—Harvard invited him in. Until 1953, the chemist and self-made man would promote the sciences, standardization, and academic scholarships, and often worked off-campus on the Manhattan Project. Conant’s successor Nathan M. Pusey ’28, had a strong presence at Harvard, and not just for academic reasons. An August 8, 1953 headline from the Boston Globe stated that, according to the “girls,” Pusey...
Just how silly is Google? Its search interface offers translations into Klingon, Elmer Fudd-speak, Pig Latin - even the lingo of the Muppets' Swedish Chef. On past April Fools' days the site has pitched Google Gulp, a drink to make searchers smarter, pigeon rank, a system whereby pecking order would determine search results, and Google Romance, a satirical site boasting a sizzling "soulmate search." The web giant has even playfully offered jobs on the moon...
...source of 92% of the world's heroin, Afghanistan's opium farmers are easily blamed for the ready availability of the drug on the streets of Europe and Asia (most heroin in the U.S. still comes from opium crops in Latin America). But Afghans have historically seen themselves as producers of opium, not consumers, citing a Koranic loophole that prohibits intoxicants but fails to proscribe their production...
...encourage my fellow students to do so. I cannot praise enough Harvard’s regional office in Santiago, whose phenomenal staff are absolutely committed to those of us who travel to their long, thin country to study, live, and work. Last summer, thanks to David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies’s (DRCLAS) Summer Internship Program, I lived with a local family and interned at an orphanage in the south of the city. It was truly the most exciting and wonderful experience I have ever...