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...finance,” says Bibergan, who will work at a private equity firm in Moscow next year. But he says that Harvard’s finance offerings are “very paltry.” Bibergan cross-registered in several courses at MIT to gain the pre-professional training that Harvard doesn’t provide...
...This is why it pains me to see rifts and cracks opening up within the College as well, brought on perhaps by the aggressive pre-professionalization of the College and the depletion of House life in favor of more “productive” pursuits. The good memories of openness and kindness that the House system encourages are in danger of disappearing and with them the protection and the influence they offer against less generous tendencies...
...wait any longer…” Sawlit says, trailing off. Hastrup finishes the sentence for her. “She would’ve said no.” But of course for Hastrup and Sawlit, who have been close since they first met during her pre-frosh weekend, their June 22 wedding in Foxborough, Mass., might just have been inevitable. Hastrup, a Fresno, Calif., native, had been smitten by the then-high school senior Sawlit ever since her appearance at a swim team party his freshman year at Harvard. “I saw her walk...
With most of the U.S. military's surge troops already in place, the numbers are starting to come in on how well it has succeeded in its goal of reducing sectarian violence in Iraq. And they aren't encouraging. Sectarian violence is nearly back to its pre-surge levels in Iraq - and rising. Recent weeks have seen greater murder rates. And the numbers seem unlikely to go down with so much of Baghdad still uncontrolled; U.S. commanders recently acknowledged that two-thirds of the capital remain unsecured...
...described as "extra-judicial killings" (EJKs) and involve the abduction, torture and murder of the victim, with the body usually left on the street. In May, says the Brookings report, citing Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Peter Pace, there were roughly 700 EJKs across Baghdad. While still lower than the pre-surge figure of 800 in February, that's a substantial increase from the estimated 500 in each of March and April, the first two months of the surge. So far in June, about 20 bodies have appeared on the streets of Baghdad a day; at that rate, at least...