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Joshua H. Billings ’07, Casey N. Cep ’07, Brad M. Smith ’05, Parvinder S. Thiara ’07, Ryan R. Thoreson ’07, and Elise D. Wang ’07 were among the 32 scholars chosen from a pool of 896 candidates. The six will begin study at Oxford University next October...
...Casey N. Cep ’07, an English and American Literature and Language concentrator in Pforzheimer House, is a Crimson arts editor, an editor for the Harvard Book Review, and serves as president of The Harvard Advocate. She is currently working on a novel about the Maryland Eastern Shore for her senior thesis...
...competition to stay afloat hasn't improved ethnic tensions, either. For all the vibrant, cross-hemispheric diversity in Miami, its Latino, black and white enclaves remain segregated and mistrustful of one another. The Cuban exiles' dominion over much of Miami politics (remember the Elin Gonzlez uprising?) has bred resentment in some quarters. This showed in the outcry earlier this year when the Miami-Dade school board, whose system has a dismal 45% graduation rate, announced that it would spend tens of thousands of dollars in court to ban a kindergarten book about Cuba that it says...
...might ask, as a boredatlamont.com poster did, "WHY DON'T U JUST COME OUT ALREADY" (Nov. 12, 5:40 p.m.), but perhaps naive impatience isn't always the solution. It certainly wasn't for one Robert N. Dole '68—not the senator— whose sexual encounter with his Phillips Exeter roommate led to a complaint to the Exeter infirmary and eventually to intermittent psychotherapy during both Exeter and Harvard...
...regular Faculty meeting to discuss the October general education report was contentious and left no clear decision in sight. Some professors opposed the content-based approach of the report, wishing rather for a methodological emphasis that would introduce students to the tools of various disciplines. Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, for one, was in this camp. He raised the possibility, as reported in yesterday’s Crimson, of distribution requirements rather than a unified, interdisciplinary approach...