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This year half a billion people in 175 countries marked Earth Day in a global festival of political showmanship and corporate spin. President Bush planted an oak in New Orleans (249,999 more would bring the canopy back to pre-Katrina levels). In Indonesia, activists painted themselves green (above). Bolivia...
John Winthrop, the Puritan leader and first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, was involved in the slave trade and donated books valued at ?20 to Harvard in 1658, marking the first time Harvard received money marked by ties to slavery.
It took two weeks of frustration and a serious sprint with 600 meters to go on Saturday morning, but the Harvard heavyweight varsity eight finally found its winning combination against archrival Princeton this weekend.The Crimson swept all four early morning races on the Charles River, but no victory was sweeter...
As usual, the annual series between the Harvard and Brown baseball teams had a little bit of everything.Late-inning heroics marked the nightcap of Saturday’s twinbill, as freshman Sean O’Hara drilled a bases-clearing double to put the Crimson on top for the first...
Mistaken for an Iraqi insurgent during the filming of “Dreams of Sparrows,” the documentary’s associate producer, Saad Fakher, was killed by American military troops while driving on a highway in Iraq. A scene describing his death marked the climax of the...