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...Harvard faculty members, including two house masters, sign a petition to President Lawrence H. Summers, calling on Harvard and M.I.T. to sell their $620 million in the stocks of companies that do business in Israel. 300 Harvard professors sign a petition that urges President Summers to continue to invest in Israel. In October, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz accuses Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson, who signed the divestment petition, of anti-semitism and challenges him to a debate on the subject; Hanson declines and Dershowitz calls him a bigot in front of a group of 200 students...
Currier House Master Joseph L. Badaracco has also become a Hough and Bardin fan, citing the musicians’ apparent ability to attract residents to mingle in the dining hall during their sets...
Last night students gathered in the home of Lowell House Master and Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck to sing, pray and feast, marking the high-point of the yearly Hindu festival of lights. In the amber glow of dozens of diya (ceremonial candles), students sat cross-legged on the carpeted floor, chanting bhajans (devotional songs), reading excerpts from sacred texts and sharing stories about the festivals they had known in their childhood...
...unlike, say, John Kerry, Obama is a master at shaping his own mythology. When he talks of his childhood, we hear little of his Hawaii years, of his fondness for bodysurfing and sashimi. Instead we hear in every speech that his mother was from Kansas ("That's why I talk the way I do") and his father was from Kenya ("He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack...
...gorgeous terrain, performing skateboard-style tricks, flips, grinds and spins. You can jump off ramps and slide along rails. You can fly through multicolored rings in the sky. Along the way, you hit targets with your hands to rack up points and earn speed bursts. With five levels to master, it could take weeks or months before you tire of AntiGrav...