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...tour guide for Unofficial Tours, Inc., the saavy Harvardian could earn $12 per hour. As a tour guide for the Crimson Key Society, students work for free. In exchange, though, they receive perks as valuable as unsought dating advice, marriage proposals, and international travel. Though the Crimson Key Society??s policy prohibits soliciting tips, that doesn’t prevent some fortunate Keysters from scoring cash, gifts, and the occasional experience of a lifetime. Perhaps the luckiest tour guide is Jason B. McCoy ’08. He gave a tour to a group from the SIAS University...
...charmingly mistake-filled early correspondence of John Quincy Adams, Class of 1787, will be available for free as well. The Founding Families project, run by the Massachusetts Historical Society in conjunction with the Harvard University Press (HUP), is working to make 45 volumes of documents available on the society??s Web site by June 2008. Adams was the second U.S. president—and the first of seven with a Harvard College diploma. He graduated 14th in a class of 24—though class rank at the time was determined by a student?...
...According to the Oxford University professor, the current “society??has accepted the preposterous idea that it is normal and right to indoctrinate tiny children in the religion of their parents.” Simply put, Dawkins believes religious indoctrination is nothing short of child abuse...
...However, the novelty of the book is not Dawkins’ attacks on religious fundamentalism (which most reasonable people would agree with), but rather, his distaste for society??s tolerance and reverence of religion in general...
Economists, political scientists, public policy experts, architects and designers, lawyers, and scientists—all of these members of the Harvard community study energy and society??s dependence on it. Yet they do so with too little cooperation or communication. Indeed, in most cases, at least at Harvard, they only see each other when they trek to Tercentenary Theatre in academic garb each June. Such division is unnecessary and inefficient. Given the profound impact the academy can have on defusing potentially cataclysmic situations involving the global use of energy, Harvard should bring these scholars under one roof...