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...official cellars remaining on campus is tucked away in the “O” entryway of Eliot House. It belongs to the renowned Society of Fellows, a select group of legendary Harvard luminaries such as Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen and Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Elaine Scarry. The cellar has about 700 to 800 bottles, and has in recent years turned more towards Australian and Chilean wines, rather than the traditional French, according to Diana Morse, the society’s administrator...
...creationism. He believes there should be no law against it, and feels teachers should be free to present it. The liberty in the classroom he supports is no doubt a result of his own flexible education. Homeschooled by his mother, each year he and his siblings were allowed to select several courses which interested them, along with the rest of the normal subjects. He took few tests, and wrote only a few short papers during his senior year of high school. His mother allowed her children to plan out their own schedules but insisted they finish the entire textbook...
...SELECT THINGS FOR YOUR PERSONAL COLLECTION? Everybody has to set some guidelines in order to limit what you collect. I'm drawn to objects with humor and with innovation...
Ever since Alan Shepard became the first American in space in 1961, NASA has controlled our mission in space. It became a sacred place, untouchable, a museum open only to select government employees. Fewer than 500 people have reached space since Shepard; Branson plans to double that number in Galactic's first year. NASA's idea of progress is to return to the moon, nearly a half-century later. Last year the agency spent nearly $5 billion sending highly trained astronauts to the ISS, largely to ferry supplies and fix the AC and other sputtering plumbing. The new generation...
...help address possible challenges of the lottery system when ensuring the availability of gender-neutral housing. Housing forms will also be revised. Students will not be limited to identifying themselves as “male” or “female” and will be able to select “transgender.” “Using inclusive language, which will allow students to identify as transgender, will allow us to make good housing decisions,” McIntosh said. Katherine E. Smith ’10, the public relations chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian...