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Coming to Harvard, brilliant scholars, star athletes, talented virtuosos, and innovative humanitarians aren’t necessarily a rare find. Yet between freshman move-in and spring Commencement, certain students manage to become campus icons. FM presents our annual list of Harvard’s 15 most interesting seniors, profiled below...
...It’s rare to have people like that available to advise you,” he added...
...Google and its backers - which include industrial partner Sony as well as libraries in the U.S. and Europe - argue that the company brings rare books often only obtainable by students, scholars and researchers to the general public online for free. It says it's also setting aside funding to pay to unknown copyright owners who step up and ask for remuneration, or remove works by those who don't want to be in Google's archive. (See pictures of Google Earth...
...bitten," says Bruce Klingner, a senior fellow at Washington's Heritage Foundation and a former CIA official. "Their attitude now is, you had your chance, and you blew it. The senior Asia people in the Administration have shifted to a much more skeptical lane in the road." (See rare pictures inside North Korea...
...Islamist group since late 2007. And in its most recent attack, a suicide bomber disguised as a veiled woman killed three Somali government ministers and at least 16 others attending a med-school graduation ceremony at a Mogadishu hotel. The Dec. 3 bombing killed several doctors and medical students, rare professional caregivers in a battered nation that needs them desperately. (Read "Suicide Bombing Marks a Grim New Turn for Somalia...