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Moving from a Harvard Law School lecture hall to the U.S. Embassy at the Vatican might seem to require a major leap of faith. But Glendon, considered one of the top American Catholic thinkers of her generation, has long been at home along the banks of both the Charles and Tiber rivers. Officially installed on Feb. 29 as the new American Ambassador to the Holy See, she is a longtime Harvard Law professor, author and international expert on human rights and legal theory. But her resume also includes stints as a visiting lecturer at the Gregorian Pontifical University in Rome...
...qualifies her for the NCAAs. Co-captain Sally Stanton and senior Clara Blattler cleared 3.55m and 3.85m, respectively, in the pole vault, while senior Danielle Mirabal finished eighth in the 60-meter dash. Senior Brittan Smith led the women in the field events with a second-place leap of 6.00m. Co-captain Alex Lewis finished sixth in the men’s heptathlon with 5112 points. All in all, the women supplied 11 ECAC qualifiers and the men added eight IC4A qualifiers, including the 4x800-meter relay, which bodes well for the upcoming outdoor season starting...
Last Friday, the Bach Society (BachSoc) Orchestra rang in Leap Day with a dazzling showcase of talent that featured their own members, as well as two guests: composer Elizabeth C. Lim ’08 and pianist Charlie Albright ’11. Music director Aram Demirjian ’08 led the orchestra with great poise, but Albright stole the show when he led the orchestra through Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1”—a notoriously difficult piece—with great polish and professionalism. The evening began with Igor...
There are signs of improvement, if not a quantum leap. Four years ago, the team lost by an average of 60 points, dropping games with scores like 108-16 and 127-32. This season Caltech lost by 29 points per game, took two league opponents into overtime and, for the second consecutive year, won a nonleague game (the team bounced Gallaudet in December). "We've had two straight winning seasons," brags Haussler, before correcting himself. "O.K., two seasons with a win." He laughs. "The paradigm is just different around here...
...Like leap years and the Summer Olympics, Ralph Nader’s presidential bids appear quadrennially with unfailing reliability. In every presidential election since 1992, Nader has thrown his hat into the ring, hoping his long-shot candidacy will reshape the American political landscape. Last Sunday, we found out that 2008 will be no exception, as that esteemed elder statesman of presidential politics (at 74 years of age he makes John McCain look youthful) announced that he would enter the fray once more...