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...campus, which could explain the larger number of thefts.”Aside from a dip in the winter—when campus bicycle use drops dramatically—there are no clear temporal trends, either. Even during the summer months, when campus is filled with students who are unfamiliar with Cambridge, the rate does not increase significantly.“The Summer School does a pretty good job of getting the word out,” says Catalano. According to Catalano, likelihood of theft doesn’t even rest on the brand or quality of the bike...
...Facts: A Harvard-only fellowship with a Harvard-only name, the Gardner sends one graduated senior abroad for a year of travels “in an unfamiliar culture with an unfamiliar language.” So don’t try to go to Germany if you have a German grandpa. And don’t make a play for Australia if that is where you were born. Those two situations would not be ideal for this grant...
...proposed system of general education would enable driven students to select the broad education that fits them best, but has the inherent danger of enabling some students to avoid challenging or unfamiliar academic territory. The extent to which the Faculty would be willing to risk such flexibility stands as the greatest question surrounding general education’s future at Harvard...
...they know what to do so I’m glad they’re starting to take control.” But it wasn’t just about intangibles for Raimondi this weekend. She managed to pad her stats as well. On Friday night, against an unfamiliar opponent in ECAC newcomer Quinnipiac, Raimondi notched four assists in a 5-3 victory. Then she turned around against the Tigers on Saturday and poured in Harvard’s first two scores—the crucial game-tying and go-ahead goals. Her first strike, a lethal long-range slapshot...
...Unlikely too is the investigator, Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, a woman caught between the native Greenland culture of her hunter-tracker mother and the well-appointed world of her Danish father, a physician and scientist. Like Ross Macdonald in his Lew Archer novels of darkest California, Hoeg creates an unfamiliar but palpable world that steadily envelops the reader...