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...when rumors started flying in February that Eve 6 was slated to be the star attraction at this year’s Yardfest, I didn’t have it left in me to be upset. My hopes had long been extinguished. Even as I watched Animal Collective and the Decemberists climb iTunes’s rankings and MGMT make it onto the radio in the dining hall, I knew that Harvard would remain hopelessly boring...

Author: By James A. Mcfadden and Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Point/Counterpoint: Striking the Right Note | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan ’02 never dreamed of being a rock star, an astronaut, or a firefighter. While other kids were still picking their noses, Ganeshananthan was already thinking about fiction. When Ganeshananthan entered Harvard in the fall of ’98, she already knew she wanted to be a writer. This knowledged helped focus her academic career. “I wanted to write a creative thesis and the only way I could do that was in English, so I knew I wanted to be an English major and get certain grades...

Author: By Kylie S. Gleason, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...star linebacker at Harvard, Bersin took up horseback riding and scuba diving in his later years due to injured knees from football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alan Bersin: Obama's 'Border Czar' | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...course, winning an election is the main reason that Gandhi has come to Bhatinda. He has lent his star power to five young, handsome Congress candidates who are running for parliament from Punjab. All of them also come from politically well-connected families, though none with the name recognition of the Gandhis. The crowd waited under massive white awnings during the scorching midday heat to hear Gandhi at the rally, which was held during the April 14 Baisakh festival celebrating the spring harvest. He introduced each one of the candidates in turn, hailing them in his textbook Hindi as naujawan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In India, a Dynastic Heir Strategizes the Election | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...peace and friendship in order to build a safer world." Most French pundits interpret the letter as Obama giving Chirac credit for correctly opposing the Iraq war as a looming strategic and diplomatic calamity - a position Obama shared. According to French press reports, Sarkozy was livid at seeing the star of world politics reach out to his longtime foe. (See pictures of Obama's travels in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mon Dieu! Chirac More Popular Than Sarkozy | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

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