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...equally important lesson, though, is the ultimate narrowness of the Harvard experience I have seen. When I return, I look forward to being a round peg in a college of square holes. Despite the diversity of backgrounds and experiences that have led us to Harvard, once here, our undergraduate experiences are remarkably conformist. This may be part of the College's mission, yet the lack of acknowledgment among students of this normalization strikes me now as I leave it for a year. Look around. People gather to watch the same shows and recommend the same Cores to one another...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: And That Has Made All the Difference | 5/8/1998 | See Source »

According to Peg Fulton, administrative editor of the Loeb Classical Library at Harvard, the recent changes are "part of a process which began in 1990 to replace old translations at the rate of four a year...

Author: By Rodrigo Cruz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Loeb Renovates Classical Literature Series | 3/19/1998 | See Source »

...Fund. ?The talks were friendly enough, but Suharto has made no concrete commitments,? says Van Voorst. While he awaits the second installment of his $40 billion bailout, Suharto did promise to implement the IMF program. But he also questioned its efficacy and vowed to press ahead with plans to peg his currency to the dollar -- against the will of the IMF and Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suharto Unmoved | 3/4/1998 | See Source »

...international body had been alarmed at Suharto's plan to peg the rupiah to the dollar, which would force up interest rates and bring even greater economic hardship to a nation already in the grip of mounting social turmoil. President Clinton on Friday called Suharto -- for the second time this month -- to urge him to comply with IMF requirements for the $43 billion bailout of Indonesia. "Suharto is sitting on a political volcano," says Van Voorst, "which is why it's not easy for the IMF to simply pull the plug on its promised bailout. The collapse of Indonesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Suharto Backed Down? | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...finale in the police department was silly, and so very "Mayberry." Eisenstein and Rosalinda had an unmistakably Ted-and-Peg Bundy exchange on their way to making up. If "Die Fledermaus" has a moral at all, it's that any reconciliation is possible if both parties are sufficiently drunk. Since only Falke emerges from the third act sober, we have to conclude that, in life, the grudge-bearers have less...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ringing in the New Year With Booze, Babes and Bats | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

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