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...discovered when Ben-Shahar and teaching fellows Jessica Glazer and Shawn J. Achor ’00 arrived at the Science Center to wish the students good luck—only to find the proctors empty-handed. Harvard’s Xerox machines were already being used to copy today??s exams, so Ben-Shahar, Glazer, and Achor raced to Gnoman Copy to quickly print the 10-page final 1,100 times. When the exams finally reached students’ hands, the multiple choice questions were still warm. “It was obviously a really stressful situation...
...that it really can solve problems. Not only comparatively little problems—computationally intense questions in theoretical physics—but really big ones as well: A non-profit organization called “One Laptop Per Child” started by an MIT professor aims to use today??s technology to distribute robust $100 laptops to the world’s poor as a step towards improved education. If we’re going to make progress on the difficult problems we’re going to face as we leave Harvard, we?...
...move on to more lucrative lives. With their Harvard diplomas, they are shoo-ins for the upper middle class, and many will climb even higher. So what’s the problem? With all this upward mobility—as a matter of statistical certainty—many of today??s residents of the Kremlin on the Charles will wake up not too long from now as (gasp) Republicans...
...Inherit the Wind,” which goes up this weekend in the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics (IOP). For the show, the first-ever student production at the school, organizers wanted to choose a script that was still relevant in today??s political climate. “The Forum is a great space used for ideas and political controversies and we thought, what a great space to have ‘Inherit the Wind’ here,” says director Edward F. Byrne ’07. The cast includes...
...symposium is divided into three modules that will examine parallels between the U.S. Civil War and today??s political polarization, ask students to consider the likelihood of civil war, and, if students do think a civil war is likely, conclude with a discussion of how to avoid that situation...