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Within days the President is expected to name a longtime public health expert, Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, as FDA Administrator. Dr. Hamburg, 53, known as Peggy, would be the latest in a string of high-achievers to join the Obama administration, with double degrees from Harvard and a successful run as New York City's youngest health commissioner under her belt...
...Before the Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum was founded in fall of 2006 as an undergraduate organization, there had been a string of similar organizations that disappeared after their founders graduated. “Entrepreneurs are hard people to mobilize and you have to create a lot of value to get them to come, so it’s hard to build something sustainable to serve,” says S. Travis May ’09, one of HCEF’s co-founders...
...metamorphosis from her more raucous indie-folk inspired early albums to a more mature singer-songwriter niche, but it’s not clear that the softer spirit allows her to express her full potential. The occasional ominous rumbling of drums or the wound-up melodrama of vibrating string sections hint at powerful release, but Mirah tends to fall back onto lovely but less memorable softness. Mirah’s restraint seems set on driving home the pessimism underlying so many of her songs, as when she sings on “The World Is Falling?...
...pitchers this weekend.After the team’s bats struggled to shake off the cobwebs in Game 1 on Friday against the Gamecocks—a 4-1 loss, and the Crimson’s first live action outdoors this year—the Harvard offense came alive to string together 26 runs in the final three contests of the series.The Crimson’s pitching and defense couldn’t hold up its end of the bargain in a 12-10 loss in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday, falling apart in the fifth and sixth...
...encounter with the so-called real world. “I Box Up All The Butterflies” shows this fairy tale collapsing under the weight of its own puerility. The narrator sneaks away from his friends and family to set traps “with fishhooks and string,” capturing a butterfly to bottle and bury in the yard as he listens to “the beat of its little heart / and its wings / struggling from under an upturned glass.” Why does he do it? When faced with the perfection and innocence...