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America obliged. Most Harvard students are ignorant of the controversy that Spence’s admission had raised across the pond. “Most people didn’t have a clue,” she says. “The only people who had heard anything were my roommates who decided to Google me. ” Spence did generally avoid international student groups because many foreign students were aware of her situation...
...Recruit screens at 11:50 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:30 and 10 p.m. at Loews Cineplex Fresh Pond, 168 Alewife Brook Pkwy, and at 11 a.m., 1:30, 4, 6:40, 9:30 p.m. and midnight at Loews Cineplex Boston Common, 175 Tremont...
University funding. You have it and we don’t. Not a term goes by in Oxford without a disgruntled don heading over to the other side of the pond citing the abysmal pay offered by this supposedly “world-class” institution. Oxford is a primarily government-funded institution, and government funding has fallen dramatically since the 1980s. In short, times are hard, and it’s no wonder that our research ratings are slipping and we haven’t won a Nobel Prize in decades. Also, whilst Harvard possesses an endowment that...
Shortly after the Ohio penguins arrived, they jumped in the pond and began swimming rapidly in circles. Soon the others joined them. They have kept at it since, stopping only at dusk, when they stagger out to sleep. "We've lost complete control," says Jane Tollini, the penguins' keeper...
...penguins have come so unhinged is not clear, but simulated migration is only one answer. Penguins are exceedingly social and suggestible; a flock at a New Orleans aquarium once went into a similar swimming frenzy when they were moved to a temporary pond. It's possible that the trip to San Francisco triggered similar behavior in the Ohio birds and that the longtime residents just followed...