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Director of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis ’98 said he believes the popularity of thefacebook.com reflects a “generation-wide phenomenon...

Author: By Elena Sorokin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Internet Boosts Social Scene | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...shows how economics can be used very constructively to think about racial and ethnic hatred not as some historical given, but as a phenomenon instigated by political entrepreneurs who used hatred for their own ends,” says Andrei Shleifer ’82, the Jones professor of economics. “It’s some of the most innovative research in economics done in a long time...

Author: By Ella A. Hoffman and Tina Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Professors Make Headlines in a Year of Discovery | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...been studying Harvard’s early work in the sciences since her undergraduate years, said she went back into the archives this year to learn more about Winthrop and his transit observations, and came up with the idea of using his original apparatus to view the phenomenon in our own time...

Author: By Kenneth D. Schultz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Celebrates Transit of Venus | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

...huge phenomenon,” says Wilson H. Carroll ’81-82. “Everybody who went to the movie decided that toga parties must be a lot of fun. We did our best to be just like the guys in the movie...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Hit the Sheets ‘Animal House’ Style | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

...Kims are part of a phenomenon sociologists call ethnic niche business, in which an immigrant group comes to dominate an industry, often with no discernible connection to its original culture. Think Chinese and laundry services, Arabs and gas stations, Koreans and groceries. And garments too. Experts estimate that more than half the 144,000 garment workers in Southern California are of Korean origin and up to half the companies are Korean owned. Entrepreneurs of Indian origin today own 38% of all hotels in the U.S. and more than half of budget motels. Mexican Americans whose forebears worked California's vineyards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entrepreneurs: Legacy of Dreams | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

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