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...Boston area descended upon the CGIS South Building on Saturday, armed with ideas on how to revitalize the economy of their native island. The symposium was part of a two-day conference, “Restoring Economic Growth in Puerto Rico,” presented by the Harvard-MIT Puerto Rico Caucus. The caucus held the conference so that professors, businessmen, government officials, and students could exchange their proposals for economic reform. “We wanted to create an intellectual forum,” said Luis A. Martinez ’08, the lead Harvard representative in the caucus...
...look at other jobs.” At the moment, the founders are relying on word of mouth and advertising on Facebook.com to attract users. They plan to make on-campus visits in the fall semester. GetConnects draws its students from the Ivy League as well as colleges like MIT, Stanford, Howard, and Spelman. Terry said that GetConnects provides access to minority students that many businesses could not get on their own. “When you lack that visibility, that network, it becomes very difficult to just show up at a career fair with some fliers and convince people...
...forget universal values,” said Maki, speaking in a packed Gund Auditorium at the GSD. Maki’s projects now include Tower 4 of the new World Trade Center in New York City, the new United Nations building in Toronto, and the Media Lab Extension at MIT, among others. In Tokyo alone, he has built 30 works, including the Spiral, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, and the TV Asahi. “His work is grounded in modernist tradition, but it is always in its time fresh and contemporary,” said Toshiko Mori, chair...
...first time in the series’ history that they had done so on the Charles River. This weekend, however, on a day of smooth waters and light winds on Lake Carnegie, N.J., Harvard won all four races of the morning in a clean sweep over the Princeton and MIT boats...
...body of a fifth-year undergraduate MIT student who had been missing for nearly two weeks was found washed ashore on Cape Cod last Thursday, according to news reports. The body of Daniel J. Barclay, 22, was found by a woman walking on Scussett Beach in Sandwich, MA., and was identified by Barclay’s mother on Friday, according to the Boston Globe. The cause of death was drowning. Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe told the Globe that the way in which Barclay drowned was still unclear. “There are no indications...