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Thus was born The Harvard Global Peace Project,Inc., a project that aims to bring 300 youngleaders from 45 war-torn countries around theworld to a Moscow conference in July 1999.According to Burke-White, the project is "myinitiative, with some of [Gorbechev's] visionsthrown...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eight Days A Week: Students Do It All | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

...land, the former home of the MacNamara Concrete Plant, is part of the land secretly purchased during the past eight years by Harvard through the Beal Company. Since it acquired the land several years ago, Harvard has cleaned the area. The building currently occupying the plot will be torn down, McCluskey said...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Harvard Donates Land for Library | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

...floor shakes and deafening curses fill the air. Is this a scene straight out of war-torn Eastern Europe? No--the setting is Harvard's usually peaceful undergraduate common rooms. The cause is not bad grades or even upcoming midterms. It's much more important than that: procrastinating students are playing video games...

Author: By Susana E. Canseco, | Title: The Cult of the Video Game | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

...very least, we owe it to the brave Harvard women who have so silently picked up the pieces from their experiences and put their lives back together. And at the very least, we owe it to the women who, before the year is over, will have their lives torn apart by the recklessly stupid actions of others...

Author: By Edward G. Smith, | Title: Recognizing Your Faults | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...such is the cunning magic that sometimes hides out in the Olympics--America had its turn. Picabo Street, the supercharged performance artist from the Idaho hamlet of Triumph, streaked through the super-G course in 1:18:02. A few months ago, Street too was a spectator, having torn a ligament in her knee; in only her fourth race back, 11 days before, she had knocked herself out while whizzing through a course at 75 m.p.h. Now, like Satoya, she stood at the bottom of the course and, unlike Satoya, delivered an irrepressible commentary as one, two, three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Hear Them Roar | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

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