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...house soldiers.Apparently, soldiers and freshman share a penchant for slobbery. Legend has it that while housed in Mass. Hall, soldiers set back the University nearly 50 pounds in damages. Considering that the whole building cost 3,500 pounds to design and build, the soldiers must have had a pretty serious party.Today’s Harvard Hall is actually the third Harvard Hall to exist on campus. The original Harvard Hall, completed in 1644, was the first building that Harvard ever commissioned for construction. After thirty years, the building began to rot and was deemed uninhabitable, but the University waited...

Author: By Synne D. Chapman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: If These Halls Could Talk | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...Whaling Commission is set to meet in a few months, and Japan and its allies will once again push for an end to the commercial ban - an appeal the Science analysis significantly undermines. But one fact of the Japanese argument is undeniable: the world's commercial fisheries are in serious trouble, and they're getting worse. In new research presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Feb. 12, the marine ecologist William Cheung announced that climate change would have a devastating impact on the world's commercial fish and shellfish populations, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Killing Whales Save the World's Fisheries? | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...confused and sloppy, save for the entertaining newborn baby kickline at the end. Supported by the jazzy sounds of composer Alex B. Lipton ’11 and the HPT band, “Acropolis Now” is a rare Greek life spectacle in the generally serious landscape of Harvard theater. In the words of Brometheus, “Pound it.” (That’s what she said.) —Staff writer Beryl C.D. Lipton can be reached at blipton@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Acropolis' Gives Laughs Now | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...surprise that she had made her life’s work to uncover the human rights abuses in the world. Susan E. Shepard ’65, who lived in Comstock Hall (now part of Pforzheimer House) with Des Forges, said she remembered her as a smart and serious student, as well as “kind and gentle.” “She always went out of her way to be nice to me,” Shepard said. Karen L. Worth ’64, Des Forges’ close friend, echoed those sentiments, saying that...

Author: By Manning Ding, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Humanitarian Dies in Buffalo Plane Crash | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...before Valentine’s Day, she serenaded the audience with sweet songs of young love. The audience responded in kind, laughing at her stories and intentionally cheesy lyrics. While Traoré’s endearing performance was often light-hearted, some of her work has a serious tone. She paused before singing “Tounka” to express her reasons for writing it. “I would prefer to see Africa more respected...like a rich country,” she said. “Tounka” explains that “migration can?...

Author: By Rebecca J. Levitan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Traore a Natural Performer | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

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