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...violent crimes in Boston this weekend left two dead—including a pregnant teenager—and seven injured, with four wounded after a fight involving a machete, the Boston Herald reported. However, conversations with a number of students indicate that Harvard undergraduates remain largely unconcerned. most say they remain unaware of the weekend’s burst of violent crime. “I didn’t hear anything,” Matthew C. Plaks ’13 said. One student, Lukas Strnad ’10, was unfazed upon hearing of the incidents because...
...difficult to walk from her office to the Science Center in under ten minutes. But Gorodentsev—now the acting Dean for Administration in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—welcomed the distractions.“I bump into ten people along the way who will say, ‘Oh, by the way...’” said Gorodentsev in an interview yesterday. “If you’re not walking around, you’re not bumping into people. You’re not hearing the valuable word on the street...
...you’ve ever been on an endless hunt for, say, a classic Elizabeth Bowen novel that hasn’t seen shelves since before 1923, then the Harvard Book Store might be just the place for you. Beginning this Friday, customers can use the store’s new “Espresso Book Machine” to select a book from millions of titles now in the public domain that will be printed and bound right on the spot, presumably akin to the way that a coffee machine instantly fills a cup of coffee. Needless to say...
...decades, the committee has expressed a concern about the quality of education 6th-8th grade students receive in the city’s K-8 schools. Critics say that the system, which lacks a traditional 6-8 “middle school” environment, does not meet the needs of students in early adolescence...
...host pays a premium. To hold March's meeting of the G-20, London shelled out an estimated $131 million - a big number for any city to absorb, and more than four times the expected cost. With fewer than 4,000 people expected to attend the Pittsburgh summit, experts say the local economy should see a boost of only about $8 million. And while the U.S. government is covering many of the city's costs, the Pittsburgh city council had to temporarily shift $16 million in funding to cover outlays that they say will be reimbursed eventually...