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Last Friday night, as most students were invading New Haven to enjoy pre-Game festivities, one event on campus was still able to draw a standing-room-only crowd. I refer of course to the annual Physics Puppet Show, accurately billed this year as an “External Review of the Harvard Physics Faculty.” And this year, like the last, the puppet show did not disappoint...
Fearful wizards refer to their nemesis, the wicked Voldemort, as You-Know-Who. But for literate kids and plenty of adults, the book world's You-Know-Who for the past few years has been Harry Potter, unassuming boy hero of J.K. Rowling's fantasy series. Now that the first book--Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Philosopher's Stone in the original British version)--is a movie, true Hogwartsians will return to the source and compare written and visual texts with the care of a New Critical scholar. They will find that the book was better--richer...
Frankly, says Gordon C. Harvey, Director of the Expository Writing Program, I dont have the faintest idea what preceptor means. Harvey, contemplating the words Latin root, posits that it might refer to hitting people over the head with a pointed stick. Internal Expository angst aside, he explains that preceptor falls under a different category at Harvard than lecturer. Preceptors teach skill-based subjects such as math, music and language. They, according to Harvey, are in a slightly differently category than people who teach content-based curriculum, such as lecturers in History and Literature. The worlds authority on words, the Oxford...
...Osama bin Laden devoted much of his own speech last weekend to denouncing international dialogue through the United Nations: "Those who claim to be Arab leaders and remain in the United Nations, they have become unbelievers of the revelation that was given to Mohammed," he said. "Those who refer matters to international legitimacy have become unbelievers in the legitimacy of the Koran...
...John Harvard’s Lap. You WILL be photographed during the day. Refer to #14 for the other reason...