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...tournament is concentrated into the first four days, when 64 schools get whittled down to 16. For basketball fans, there is the orgy of games, with starting times carefully choreographed so that each ends a few minutes apart, allowing CBS to show every buzzer beater or near miss. (It's the least the network could expect for the $6 billion it has ponied up to broadcast the event for just over a decade.) But for secular audiences, those first few days are also when March Madness is at its maddest, when little schools get their one shot at Goliath. Most...
...institutional advising, students like Kwong are left to learn mostly through trial and error. “I never get grants from The Weatherhead Center [for International Affairs] because they’re looking for certain types of applications,” he says of the hit-or-miss system. “I always pay attention to their research presentations and the topics that they go for…to make sure [my proposals] are attractive to the committee.” 24-CARAT GOLD While advising remains inconsistent, the application process for summer thesis research grants is starting...
...sure enough that I wanted to go into medicine, that [premed] classes were worth the sacrifice of what I could be exploring,” Gelfand says. “I think that people who do spend their time in the normal [premed] system…miss out on interdisciplinary learning...
...Harvard community. Although the policy will not go into effect for another two weeks, some students have already expressed concerns. “I fully do not support it,” Taylor M. Owings ’08 said of the change. Owings added that causing students to miss class would be “rather silly.” “I frequently leave my ID in my room,” she said. Mariel L. Wolfson, a second-year graduate student, said that the library should look up photos of students instead of turning them away...
...Filkins, reporting about “human drama” has become another casualty of the war. Journalists, isolated from everyone but the U.S. military, miss the perspectives of Iraqi civilians and insurgents in the reports that reach the American public...