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It was established in 1655 to fulfill Harvard’s pledge to aid in “the education of English and Indian youth,” as outlined in the Founding Charter of 1650.

Author: By Joy C. Lin, CONTRIBUTINGWRITER | Title: Indian Tribe Back in Yard | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

Friends doubted the roommates’ pledge of absolute consistency, but, so far, rain, sleet, and snow have not deterred them.

Author: By Britt Caputo, CRIMSON CONTRIBUTOR | Title: If You Can’t Smoke Inside... | 4/7/2005 | See Source »

That inclination expressed itself early, in his suppression of liberation theology, a Marxist-tinged philosophy that attained popularity in the '70s among the Latin American poor. Critics wondered why the Pope would fan the flames of a people's struggle in Eastern Europe while dousing a similar movement elsewhere. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defender of the Faith | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

The same activists who helped introduce the world to dolphin-safe tuna are about to take consumers on a similarly gruesome guilt trip. In an effort to abolish Canada's government-sanctioned seal hunts, in which pups as young as 12 days are fair game to get clubbed to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Save the Seals by Skipping the Scallops? | 3/28/2005 | See Source »

When Munir Said Thalib, Indonesia's most prominent human-rights campaigner, died during a Garuda Airlines flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam and was later found to have been poisoned with arsenic, his murder became a test of new President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's pledge to run an open and accountable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Killed Munir? | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

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