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...1960s through this decade brought similar admissions and accusations of failure and subsequent attempts to review, renew, and reorganize. In fact, in June 1980, the now-famous Susan C. Faludi ’81 begins her Commencement issue editorial by saying that “it has become a Harvard tradition of sorts to report periodically on the failures of advising.” Indeed...

Author: By Monique Rinere | Title: Are We Deluding Ourselves? | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...similar innovation came in fund raising. Normally, it is only the big donors who get quality time with a candidate. But Obama devoted far more of his schedule to small-dollar events. In Kentucky, the month after he announced his run for President, the first such effort quickly sold out all 3,200 tickets at $25 a head - and produced the beginning of a local organization. "It's the difference between hunting and farming," says Obama moneyman Matthew Barzun, 37, the Louisville Internet-publishing entrepreneur who arranged the event. "You plant a seed, and you get much more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Did It | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...same “mesh” technology powering the Square network is also being used in San Francisco, a city that experienced similar delays after announcing its intention to deploy wireless...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Square Unveils Free Internet | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

Stanford Law School officials announced last Thursday that the faculty will reform its grading system in order to adopt an honors, pass, restricted credit, no credit grading system. Since Yale Law School has had a similar system for decades, the move means that Harvard is the only one of the top three law schools that has not moved to such a grading system, which has proved to be more popular law among students and has been praised for deemphasizing competition. With talks beginning as early as last year, Stanford Law School Dean Larry D. Kramer said in a telephone interview...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stanford Law Ends Grades | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...sure, but in a way that can lead, paradoxically, to the emergence of groups that are both large and stunningly homogenous. Or consider student organizations. Harvard has a remarkably large assortment of groups, often consisting of like-minded people. Many students (and graduates) are surrounding themselves with people of similar political views, social backgrounds, and career interests...

Author: By Cass R. Sunstein | Title: The Architecture of Serendipity | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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