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Harvard students live in a relatively sheltered bubble. When they encounter crime, it is more likely to be lurid, white-collar embezzlement than gritty, unromantic urban violence. But the streets of Cambridge don’t all fall under the shadow of Harvard’s ivory tower, and students rely on the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) as well as the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) to announce when serious crime happens on or near campus...
From the 12th generation at Harvard to the first-generation at any college at all, living with a legacy means having something to prove. The students profiled in the following pages each came to Harvard with a legacy of sorts: from an older sister’s shadow and a grandfather’s prestige to potential on the basketball court. These are the legacies people bring with them to school, the definitive experiences and personal histories that shape these students’ decision to come here in the first place...
...civic moment. Many architects, however, are concerned about the unintended consequences of this intensive media coverage. If architects are seen merely as a new kind of celebrity, architecture will be just another temporary form of public entertainment. The spectacle will continue while financial interest starts to cast a cynical shadow...
...really involved in the wave of terrorist bombings on the southern island of Mindanao that the government blames on Abu Sayyaf, the Islamic guerrilla group that, in its early days, had links to al-Qaeda? Or, as skeptics suggest, is the Philippine intelligence community performing a shadow dance of Colin Powell's efforts in the U.N. to convince the world that Iraq and al-Qaeda are working together...
...Chan, too, doesn't want to stop. He has been a Hong Kong icon for ages?his breakthrough film, Snake in Eagle's Shadow, opened 25 years ago next month?but he became a Hollywood star only in 1998. And dammit, he's determined to enjoy the ride, however many bumps he may take...