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...Statistics Department celebrated its 50th anniversary this weekend with a two-day symposium, uniting professors, students, and alums with a shared passion for data sets, regressions, and standard deviations. The event kicked off on Friday morning with speeches from Department Chair Xiao-Li Meng, Dean for the Physical Sciences Jeremy Bloxham, and University President Drew G. Faust, among others. The celebration featured panels on how sectors of the field have changed over the past 50 years, and speakers sought to show the impact that Harvard statistics faculty have had within their discipline. The weekend’s proceedings also served...
...aged 30, was described by the mass market daily, The Mirror, as "a Scots-born businessman" and by its larger rival, The Sun, as a "socialite smoothie." The other was identified as Sean McGuigan, aged 40, said to be Irish and, according to his neighbor quoted in the Evening Standard, "rough...
After the dorm was preventively treated, no new cases occurred in Pennypacker. The UHS memo explained that the best diagnosis that could be given at the time was that the students had contracted scabies, and following standard procedure, they treated the entire dormitory...
...taking Expos would allow Expository Writing to hire fewer, better teachers (for instance, there are only 109 students enrolled in Expos 10). Placing only this small group of students with demonstrated writing need under the tutelage of trained writing professionals would bring every student at Harvard up to a standard writing level.The preceptors for expository writing would then serve as writing tutors part time in the fall and full time the rest of the year, providing a professional and expanded staff for the currently-underutilized Writing Center. Those students who no longer have to take Expository Writing would be encouraged...
...like everything else in Iraq, it's not that simple. There is, for starters, the perception problem of an apparent U.S. double standard with regard to Kurdish insurgents. The Bush Administration, in its effort to force Iran to give up its nuclear weapons program and stop arming and funding disruptive Shi'a parties in Iraq, has not attempted to hide its sympathy for Iranian Kurds - the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan, or PJAK. The PJAK operates from Iraqi Kurdistan and reportedly has been making regular forays into Iran, attacking Iranian army units, and returning to Iraq. The PJAK operates...