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...Life Sci 1a—a ridiculously overheated review and romp through the major genres,” said Mitchell, who added that he had never actually attended an introductory life sciences lecture.The students must also all take a sophomore tutorial. In Arshad’s case, her main assignment was an ethnography of a group.“I ended up doing one of the Harvard break dancing group on campus,” Arshad said. “It was probably the best paper I’ve written in my life.”Another popular class...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Folk and Myth Breaks Harvard Mold | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...personal relationships. But though Quick’s first novel is an engaging enough read, it is also a fluffy one. Despite the narrator’s professed desire to better understand himself, his world, and the people who populate it, Quick barely manages to flesh out the main character, let alone the secondary ones. Quick endows Pat with the voice and writing style of a seventh grader. Pat expresses himself in run-on sentences, and often uses grammatical constructions that one might find in a poorly written grade-school report. One example of this can be found in Pat?...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Quick's Book Is a Few Plays Short | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...liquid blaze that she could not suppress. She knew not from whence this Irish fire came; it overflowed from some inner latent sea to fill her mouth, to seep from her nether regions, straining to burst. She hardly noticed when Frederick departed to the small sculpture gallery off the main hall. No, she was alone here, alone again with The Stable Boy.The cool stale air, the marble floors, the stone balustrades, the gilt frames, Filippo—all but The Stable Boy dissolved into a ripe sun, a voluptuous ribbon of billowing moor, a stable floor strewn with hay that...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...including the creation of a new international agency that can act as a lender of last resort to stricken banks. In Washington, Robert B. Zoellick, president of the World Bank, concurs that only a multinational solution can really work. "While American eyes are on the intersection of Wall and Main streets, there is much more to the story," he says. "The response to these crises will have to be larger and global...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Global Markets' Meltdown | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

Business School students have a lot on their plate, from case studies to recruiting events, but occasionally a troublesome turkey becomes the main course. The HBS fowl, nicknamed “Turk Turkee” by some students, has created a rift between those members of the student body who think it is a nuisance and those who think it is a harmless source of entertainment. “Although the turkey has been around since I’ve been here, I’ve never had a personal run-in with the turkey,” said Valentina...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Turkey Runs Afoul of Biz School | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

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