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...Some students are advised by senior faculty, others by graduate students. Some concentrations teach the senior tutorial as a course with regular meeting times and loose assignments; others leave students to shape their work more autonomously. In some concentrations, advisers grade the thesis; in others, theses are read “blind” by professors, lecturers, or graduate students less familiar with the thesis writer’s work and topic...
...great time together. Winning just helps make it sweeter.” The next step for Harvard is to make it to elite status in college tennis. “When you get to the next level, everybody’s tough, everybody’s in good shape, everybody will run forever,” Fish said. “There are certain points where you’re climbing a mountain, and you have to jump over a crevasse, and it’s dangerous and you’re nervous.” For Clayton and crew...
...from Richard Portes, an economist at the London Business School. In March, after he published a favorable report on Iceland's economy, Portes says a senior figure at a major hedge fund phoned him. "He spent half an hour trying to tell me the Icelandic banks were in terrible shape and that the country was a disaster area," he recalls. "Apparently I was risking my reputation by saying anything different." But not everyone responds to Iceland's plight with sympathy. Eileen Zhang, an Iceland expert at ratings agency Standard and Poor's, says cries of "Foul!" mask the country...
...former painter, Lux, 38, brings her images to life with the attention to form, shape and color that she learned at the easel. The artistry begins at the photo shoot, but her signature style--the brushstrokes of her new medium--comes later, at the computer. First she strips out the background and replaces it with a quiet setting--a grassy field, an abandoned building--from her personal stash of paintings and pictures. Then she erases any object that crowds the picture, like a tree or toy, so the child appears to be part of a dream. "I don't care...
...College David R. Pilbeam and Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman '67 met on a biweekly basis to "consider the first-year experience in broad terms" in order to propose a series of recommendations relating to social, extracurricular, residential, and academic life of students that would help shape the outcome of their college experiences...