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...which are endangered. That's twice as many as were taken in 2000, more than even the number hauled in by Norway, which simply ignores the moratorium. Next year Japan plans to bag 50 humpbacks, the endangered giants famous for their spectacular breaches and eerie subaqueous songs. Stanford University cetologist Stephen Palumbi says their addition to the scientific catch will confound attempts to monitor poaching through the dna testing of meat, a method that has proved remarkably effective in recent years...
...professional students from Harvard go on to become world leaders in many areas. Their education and the strength of their experience at Harvard should be a central concern for the University. Including students on the presidential search committee would not be without precedent among leading American universities. In 1999, Stanford had one undergraduate and one graduate student on its 15-member presidential search committee. Princeton University, with a considerably smaller graduate student population than Harvard, had one graduate student and two undergraduates on its 18-member search committee in 2000. Finding a new president is an important task...
...choir” section with a performance from PBJ—Praise Band for Jesus, of course—and John K. Lin ’08’s testimonial of Christianity and loneliness at Harvard, during which he blamed God for sending him to Harvard instead of Stanford. “I was like, ‘God, why can’t I have, like, just two more years in the sun?’” Lin said. Guest speaker Jimmy Quach ’98 led off his speech by explaining just...
...that you can lead the Harvard student to Mexican waters, but you can’t make her have sex with anyone. The University’s policy of bizarrely timed breaks that keep students from interacting with students from other colleges worked wonders. Aside from the odd Stanford sighting, Harvard kids basically looked at each other and thought, “Even though I feel sorry for you because your ‘tan’ makes you look like a burn victim, I still don’t want to juice you. Would it be terribly rude...
Most recently, the department garnered third-place in U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of mathematics specialties as part of its “America’s Best Graduate Schools” issue, finishing behind Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley...