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...league play begins in earnest this weekend, with all eight teams in action, Around the Ivy League makes its triumphant return to the printed page, after slogging through a 1-3 start in the SportsBlog.Despite just making the turn into February, several teams have already found themselves eliminated from the two-month playoff that is the 14 Game Tournament. Dartmouth and Columbia, which have combined for a 1-7 start, are out of the race, while Brown and Cornell—each 2-2—have no margin for error.The three one-loss teams—Harvard, Yale...
Enough has been written about the failures of the Core Curriculum on this page, and as of late, nearly as much has been written supporting the current direction of the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR). In particular, the Committee on General Education’s recommendations, which propose that students satisfy general education requirements with departmental courses or foundational and integrative courses in general education, look promising. By increasing the flexibility and creating a competitive market for courses, the curricular review stands to drastically improve the fundamental nature of a Harvard education...
...book’s 794th and final page includes an inscription in purple cursive: “the bynding of this booke is all that remains of my dear friende Jonas Wright, who was flayed alive by the Wavuma on the Fourth Day of August, 1632. King Mbesa did give me the book, it being one of poore Jonas chiefe possessions, together with ample of his skin to bynd it. Requiescat in pace...
...February 1946, Harvard acquired the tome from a New Orleans rare books dealer for $42.50. “Clem G. Hearsey, New Orleans,” is stamped on the book’s first page. In 1992, DNA tests on the binding’s skin proved inconclusive—the genetic evidence presumably was corrupted by the tanning process. Ferris says “he has never seen a book like this on the market,” and that, without its binding, the book probably values between $500 and $1000, while the skin makes it more valuable...
...Germany's Die Welt, Spain's El Periodico, the Netherlands' de Volkskrant and Italy's La Stampa, then responded by republishing the drawings in support of the principle of free expression. "I don't really understand the fuss," Die Welt editor Roger K?ppel, who ran one on his front page today, told German television. "Arabic television has shown beheadings and staged bestial rituals involving Jewish rabbis. We're seeing double standards at work here, and it's the job of journalists to expose them." Larry Kilman, communications director of the World Association of Newspapers, says the "overreaction in the Middle...