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Elections closed Monday at midnight, and the HAA has sent out the results to contenders for the Marshal position—which involves planning senior class activities, helping pick the Class Day speaker (please, God, don't give us Bernanke again), and interfacing with the Harvard Alumni Association to plan events in the years after graduation. 16 17 seniors made it past the first round of voting and will duke it out for one of the eight spots in a second round of balloting that begins tomorrow...
Glamour Magazine’s September issue features their annual pick of the country’s Top Ten College Women who they believe are going to change the world, and inevitably, a Harvard gal usually makes the cut. This year, Pforzheimer resident Marisa S. West ’10 joins the fold. FM caught up with past Harvard finalists to ask them about life after the feature. For Nancy A. Redd ’03, life has been pretty glamorous since she made the list in 2002. After being crowned Miss Virginia two weeks following her graduation, she went...
...country. According to news reports, Nabhan was killed when up to four U.S. helicopters fired on a convoy carrying suspected al-Qaeda targets in a village in southern Somalia on Monday. The reports said the helicopters attacked a vehicle, killing some people inside, then circled back and landed to pick up the bodies and any survivors for identification. Further clarification of Nabhan's death came on Sept. 15 from Abdi Fitah Shawey, deputy mayor for security affairs in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. "Our security-intelligence reports confirm that Nabhan was killed," Shawey told the Associated Press. (See pictures...
...Tuesday. Roughly three hours later, an unexpected fire alarm sounded, and the research facility was quickly evacuated. There is no record of Le leaving the building based on footage from some 75 security cameras stationed around the building, though Yale officials have said it could be difficult to pick out Le, who is 4-feet-11-inches, from the crowd during the evacuation. Her ID, money, credit cards, and purse were found in her office in the Sterling building. Le was to be married yesterday to Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky at the North Ritz Club in Syosset...
...were to pick the least likely Senator to help Barack Obama win a major legislative victory, Alabama's Richard Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, would be a fine choice. Once a "boll weevil" Democratic opponent of Bill Clinton, Shelby became a Republican in November 1994, helping the GOP cement its hold on the Senate at a crucial moment. He has had a near perfect record of conservatism on social and foreign-policy issues since then. The tall, drawling former prosecutor questioned Obama's citizenship this past February, and when Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner first unveiled...