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...course it failed. The kindly philosopher-king quickly turned into a petty bureaucratic dictator, and a period of darkness fell over the realm of Harvard College. Students were imprisoned in hyper-specific studies of obscure topics. Cramped in overpopulated and under-taught classes, wails of bondage arose from the people. Finally, University Hall lent a kindly ear to the cries of the oppressed. And after years of internal debate, they released a grand plan to usurp the tyrant. “Let them have civics,” they cried, in a tone befitting Marie Antoinette...
...unpublished Cornell University study, which will be presented Friday at a health economics conference in Cambridge, Mass., is constructed from an analysis of reported autism cases, cable TV subscription data and weather reports. Yes, weather reports. And yet, it all makes some kind of sense in the realm of statistics. And it makes sense to author Gregg Easterbrook, who stirred the blogosphere this week with an article about the study on Slate, provocatively (and perhaps irresponsibly) titled "TV Really Might Cause Autism...
...former MIT standout—has encountered the same problem. Although she was a member of nine national teams, Muri never made it to the Olympics, simply because there were not enough seats available.“Lightweight women get the short end of the stick in international realm,” Muri says. “People ask why I wasn’t in the Olympics — there are not enough opportunities for lightweight rowers.”However, at the moment, Kharrazi is more focused on this season than a future in international rowing...
...party lines, Golis and Green said they plan to implement a pool system—similar to those used during March Madness—where users would be able to compete against their friends to see whose predictions are most accurate. Green and Golis are no strangers to the realm of online interactive social media or politics. While at Harvard, Green took time off to work for the campaign of Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) in Arizona and to found essembly.com, a non-partisan social networking site. He also worked on Facebook.com with his Harvard roommate, Mark E. Zuckerberg...
...gender and sexuality into one program, doing so has the potential to force superficial connections between topics whose relation to each other is tenuous at best. In particular, on the women and gender studies end, issues such as women’s suffrage and female contributions in the realm of wars, politics, and science have little, if anything, to do with sexuality, and instead are primarily concerned with the historical influence of gender roles on larger society...