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...audience responded with light applause, and Amy B. Diaz ’08 and Class Marshal Joshua C. H. Sharp ’08 presented the Fed chair with a gift of rock glasses for his home or office. Sharp cautioned against on-the-job use, saying, “We’re counting...
...School followed suit in May. Here the university acted to free information rather than to control it. Harvard defied the predatory monopoly of journal publishers. Bravo, fair Harvard. “To thy children the lesson still give,/ With freedom to think …/ Be the herald of light …/ Till the stock of the Puritans die.” Harry R. Lewis is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and the author of “Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future?” His book with Hal Abelson...
...Boston fans were just a little bit entitled (imagine that!), unbearably smug and boastful when their teams won, and sulky and defensive when they didn’t.It was earth-shattering, to learn that outside my safe, championship-filled Massachusetts bubble my people could be viewed in such a light. But as difficult as it was to learn that not everybody thought like me, soon something even scarier happened: I learned that some of the people who didn’t think like me might be right—at least about some things. It’s true...
...benefit of athletes when the situation demands it.When the Athletic Department shuts down a major facility without informing coaches or players—or, for that matter, almost anyone on campus—college journalists can stress athletes’ grievances and shed a critical light on the poor administrative decision-making that took place.When that same Athletic Department starts to cut off funding to junior varsity programs, essentially forcing those teams to switch to club status, we can bring those shady dealings to the attention of the college administration, working to mitigate what will be a difficult and costly...
...mettle in key Ivy games as well. She outshined eventual league Player of the Year Diana Matheson in Harvard’s 4-2 win over Princeton. With a Rookie of the Year award already under her belt, the Crimson’s lightning flash will look to light up the Ivy League yet again in 2008. —Staff writer Emily W. Cunningham can be reached at ecunning@fas.harvard.edu...