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...received honorable mentions. Miller also won the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize, an award given to the top scoring female competitor, for the third time. “I have friends on the other school’s teams, so I’d be happy regardless of the outcome,” she said. “But I’m so happy about Harvard’s win.” Despite the exam’s difficulty, the winners said they did not cram for the exam. “The team members didn?...
...students who had been hazed by the report’s standards said they did not think they had been hazed. The report defines hazing as “any activity expected of someone joining or participating in a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses, or endangers them regardless of a person’s willingness to participate.” Researches surveyed 11,482 undergraduates at 53 colleges and universities across the nation. Three hundred students were also interviewed. Examples of hazing include alcohol consumption, sleep deprivation, and sex acts, according to the report. “The goal...
...laws and punishments in cuneiform, the Babylonian script that predates even hieroglyphics. Although its prescriptions sound cruel today ("If a man commits a robbery and is caught, that man will be killed"), it helped him craft his image as a just ruler: the stela was displayed publicly, so nobody, regardless of status, could plead ignorance of its laws. As Hammurabi says in the lower part of the stela, "I am indeed the shepherd who brings peace, whose scepter is just...
...Regardless of the outcome of the primary, Hillary’s political career will remain intact. Should she win, I’d gladly vote for her over Grandpa McCain. On the other hand, if she does cede the nomination to Obama, she’ll obviously remain a prominent figure within the Democratic Party, and an icon to many American women...
...seems only to be a matter of time before more students sign on for similar opportunities. Overall it seems that the drive to study abroad is gaining momentum—a marked change from the traditional belief that Harvard is the end-all and be-all of education, regardless if what you’re studying happens to be in Cambridge or not. “I think [Excursions is] a fabulous idea,” says Schlozman. “As sophomores, the students may not quite be as steeped in art history or know quite as many objects...