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...there any chance you’ll host a study break in your Mather Tower penthouse...
...Iraqi civilians killed, Baghdad was relatively calm for the vote. The quiet may be an indication that the draconian security measures that banned almost all vehicular traffic, international travel and movement between provinces were effective in curbing insurgents' attacks. Still, the night before the vote, insurgents sabotaged an electrical tower, plunging the city and northern towns into darkness. There were also reports of gun battles between insurgents, on one hand, and U.S. and Iraqi troops in Ramadi and other western towns Saturday, causing voters to stay away from the polling booths. In the capital, however, there were attacks by gunmen...
Forget the T rides to Copley Square, where, once out, you are confronted by the mirror-like walls of the John Hancock Tower. Harvard students won’t need to schlep into Boston anymore (not that we ever do) in order to see the work of architect Henry N. Cobb ’47, who in 1955 co-founded a now-famous firm with I.M. Pei. An award-winning former chairman of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), Cobb has finally built something in his own backyard—literally. Taking...
...speak of that peculiar and misguided aspect of a Harvard education so misrepresented in the brochures and misapplied in practice—the section and its accompanying TF.The section, at least as it was described to me when I applied to college, was some sort of glorious ivory tower summit between a small group of students and a professor or an expert graduate student in the field. It was to be a place to shout out crazy ideas, to debate and wrestle with complicated issues, and generally look forward to attending every week. My impression was about as wrong...
...necessary. They were about to go to a “Saved By the Bell”-themed party in Eliot House—and then, according to the night’s agenda, to a Pacific Northwest Club party in Quincy, then to the PfoHo Bell Tower, and then to the Kong, Grafton, and, finally, “late-night @ a super-sketchy Final Club.”10.8.05 EMBEDDED CAMPUS RESEARCH, the agenda read, printed on official Harvard College stationery. Apparently, some research requires heavy drinking, and why not? The administrator and his entourage—who allowed...