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Traversing city ports and fishing villages in Indonesia, and performing with a shadow puppet troupe in Cambodia: these are some of the ventures that recipients of this year’s Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship will undertake next year. This year’s recipients of the fellowship, which offers a stipend of $18,000 to graduating students for a year of purposeful travel, are Matthew A. Busch ’07 of Leverett House, Olivia H. Gage ’07 of Adams House, Emily W. Hogeland ’07 of Currier House, Kelly...
...another example of life-skills training, the school is heeding calls from corporate leaders for employees who can work well with others. "Working in teams teaches you how to interact with others, and how to be more sociable," says Lori Ismail, a junior who often collaborates with classmates to perform science experiments and solve trigonometry problems. "It's important because if you're going to work at a company you're going to have to acknowledge and work with everyone around...
...Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Doris Sommer, who has taught Borges’ work in her graduate seminar on aesthetics, wrote in an e-mail that her reaction to the news “alternates between great sadness for the loss and humor, because of course both stories perform the joke typical in Borges of purposefully confusing original with copy...
...days before he died, in a kind of atonement for atrocities Russia (and perhaps Litvinenko himself) had committed in Chechnya, although another doubted any conversion had taken place. Litvinenko's widow Marina had requested a nondenominational service at the graveside, but an imam interrupted the proceedings to perform Islamic rites. Litvinenko, a former Moscow anticorruption detective turned furious critic of the Russian government, had a talent for controversy...
...Stellar performances outshined Harvard’s few blips on Saturday morning at the Malkin Athletic Center, as the Crimson’s second opponent at home hardly presented the challenge that Tufts did last week. Both the men and women fencing squads defeated Sacred Heart by impressive margins, the men by a score of 22-5 and the women by a dominant 23-4. The Crimson’s only stumbling blocks came in men and women’s saber. The women eked out a victory after junior Alexa Weingarden won her final bout 5-4, winning...