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...professor committee spends four or five months devising the 12 problems, which are arranged in order of increasing difficulty. It's an all-day affair: two three-hour sessions with a two-hour break. No calculators, no notes, no mercy. "There certainly is a mystique surrounding the exam," says Ravi Vakil, co-author of a book about the exam. "I think awe, respect and terror all apply...
...Staff writer Ravi P. Agrawal can be reached on agrawal@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Ravi P. Agrawal can be reached at agrawal@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Ravi P. Agrawal can be reached at agrawal@fas.harvard.edu...
Lately she has developed an appreciation for jazz, thanks in part to the chart-topping debut album of her 23-year-old half-sister, Norah Jones. They only met five years ago - Jones' mother distanced herself and her daughter from Ravi after he married Anoushka's mother, Sukanya. Though the belated sibling relationship was a bit rocky at first, the sisters have become close and even have similar tattoos on their backs of a stylized lotus Anoushka designed. Will they ever collaborate? Perhaps. "We've tried to mess around a little. We just started laughing and gave up," says Anoushka...