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...particularly unfortunate because one of the University’s most controversial (and least defensible) policies is aimed at currying favor (and funds) from alumni. That policy, legacy preference, gives a tip in the admissions process to applicants whose parents attended Harvard. To paraphrase John Stuart Mill, alumni children gain this advantage by the mere fact of being born. University officials say the legacy preference policy is meant to express gratitude toward alumni, who serve as interviewers for the admissions committee and who donate hundreds of millions of dollars to Harvard each year. But Harvard has never asked its alumni...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel | Title: Leave Behind (a) Legacy | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...undergraduates, according to the October 1957 issue of Harvard Today. By 1957, that number had ballooned to 2,955. With the funds from the PHC, an eighth house was to be built by 1959. In March of 1957, The Crimson reported that the block bounded by Mill, Mt. Auburn, Plympton and DeWolfe Streets had been chosen as the site for the new House and would cost about $5 million to construct. At the time, the site was occupied by a psychological clinic, Mather Hall—a part of Leverett House—and a row of houses on DeWolfe...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Preparing the Age that Was Coming | 6/1/2007 | See Source »

...original version of this article contained the sentence ?At one point Serra and his attorney at the German steel mill he works with thought of having the form trademarked.? In fact, Serra?s attorney is not connected to the steel mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Serra's Big Show | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...Still, even the luxury section is at double capacity. In fact, the American says, he is envious of the prisons depicted in the Hollywood movies he watches there. Just inside the second gate, where many of the shootings allegedly occur, inmates mill about freely in the hallways, far from their cells, joking around and chatting on cell phones, which are supposedly not permitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela's U.N. for Drug Traffickers | 5/15/2007 | See Source »

...Niki Finelli of the women’s basketball and lacrosse teams, and sophomore Jenny Brine of women’s hockey and golf, this is all just par for the course—quite literally.The sports these two compete in aren’t just run-of-the-mill, low-pressure athletic programs. Brine was a leading member of a women’s hockey team that battled all the way to the NCAA tournament quarterfinals, before suffering a quadruple-overtime defeat, and Finelli was a key component to the women’s basketball team?...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brine, Finelli Win Big Across Multiple Sports | 4/24/2007 | See Source »

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