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Harvard’s devastating loss to Yale at this weekend’s football game is not the only bizarre phenomenon storming Cambridge this fall. Saturday’s loss, which broke Harvard’s five-year winning streak, also set the record for the warmest Game day in at least half a decade, according to national forecast provider AccuWeather. According to meteorologist John M. Pachelco from national weather source AccuWeather, the average daytime temperature in November has been 4.5 degrees above normal—defined as the average temperature from...
...counting down the hours until my flight home. It made me resent Egypt and Islam in general, but I always had the comfort of knowing that I would eventually return home. For millions, that paranoia is an inescapable daily reality, and the consequence of a sad social phenomenon that has long been due for reform. Needless to say, religion tenaciously resists change—especially a religion that is under constant political attack and has become almost reactionary in response. The problem lies in the impression that to believe, you must also adhere literally to the holy text. While well...
...what those ventures might be. IN YOUR FACEAfter graduating from Oberlin College in 1994, Rees moved to the Boston area and began to create and self-publish comics. He first sold his work in Million Year Picnic, a Harvard Square comic book shop.For years, he was an obscure, local phenomenon. Then, as the saying goes, Sept. 11 changed everything.Rees began producing “Get Your War On” (GYWO) on Oct. 9, 2001. It used a medium he’d tried before in more apolitical strips—namely, attaching bizarre and irreverent speech bubbles to public...
...example, researchers of the phenomenon of genocide will never really be able to understand what happened in Rwanda unless they analyze sociology and psychology along with history and political science. Likewise, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute brings together lawyers and public policy experts with geneticists and biologists. The benefits of interdisciplinary research have all been widely noted, but Hyman—and the Task Force on General Education—took it a step further when they emphasized interdisciplinary teaching in undergraduate liberal education...
Over the past five years, Roman Catholic communities around the country have experienced a curious phenomenon: more women, most in their 20s and 30s, are trying on that veil. Convents in Nashville, Tenn.; Ann Arbor, Mich.; and New York City all admitted at least 15 entrants over the past year and fielded hundreds of inquiries. One convent is hurriedly raising funds for a new building to house the inflow, and at another a rush of new blood has lowered the median age of its 225 sisters to 36. Catholic centers at universities, including Illinois and Texas A&M, report growing...