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...Harvard student is her lack of experience in the country in which she attends college. Speak to some students admired for being well-traveled and culturally aware, and you will be surprised at how many of them have gleefully globetrotted, proclaiming their status as a “cosmopolitan scholar,” while never having set foot beyond the coastal enclaves of the United States. Over spring break, I did Harvard Habitat for Humanity in the Mississippi Delta, not for Katrina relief, but for people who are simply poor. It would have been an amazing experience for East...

Author: By Emma M. Lind, | Title: The New Provincialism | 4/27/2006 | See Source »

...Cover) In 1946, Dr. Hans Thirring, a Viennese scholar without access to secret information, read certain published reports that could be found in any physics library. Going about the scientist's business of mating known facts to breed new facts, Dr. Thirring made and published calculations leading to the conclusion that out of lithium hydride could be constructed a bomb many times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. At the end of his austere equations, Dr. Thirring's scientific article flamed up into a prayer: "God protect the country over which a six-ton bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: The Road Beyond Elugelab | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

...languages and literatures, Chadbourne looked to teach a course on Irish fairy lore for the Expository Writing program. Expos asked her instead to teach a much broader course on storytelling more generally. Rather than upsetting her plans, this request led Chadbourne to approach the medium differently, and opened up scholarly and creative worlds to her. She considers her ever-changing relationship to academia and the arts, saying, “I used to wonder, am I a scholar or an artist? Now, I don’t worry so much.” Chadbourne?...

Author: By Zoe M. Savitsky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kate Chadbourne | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

...it’s about coming together in our mission of sisterhood,” Alford said. Alford’s words about outreach set the stage for two of the night’s most hotly contested races. The chair of ABHW’s Alberta V. Scott Scholar Program, a mentoring program currently operated in conjunction with the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School that could undergo a critical restructuring in the next 12 months, went to Abimbola O. Orisamolu ’08 in a four-woman race. With a large ABHW alumni weekend planned next year, another...

Author: By Nicholas A. Ciani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alford ’08 Steps Up to ‘Mission of Sisterhood’ | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...Lawrence Lessig, a prominent intellectual property scholar at Stanford Law School, also said that plagiarism and copyright infringement are different concepts...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani and David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Soph Says She's Sorry for Overlap | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

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