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...women make up the graduating class. Seventy undergraduates, representing about 4 percent of the class, earned summa cum laude degrees—the highest degree awarded by the College—in their fields of concentration. 85 graduates will receive magna cum laude degrees with highest honors, based upon their entire coursework and overall grade point average. One hundred fifty eight undergraduates will receive magna cum laude degrees in their fields of concentration. 470 will receive cum laude degrees in their fields of concentration, while 41 will receive cum laude degrees in general studies. Eight hundred ninety six Business School...
...Solicitor General Elena Kagan introduced herself as just a “fellow graduate” upon her return to Harvard Law School yesterday, where she served as dean from 2003 until her Senate confirmation in March, As dean, Kagan built a legacy of student-oriented reform initiatives, As the Law School’s class day speaker, she placed the final seal on her deanship and urged the graduating class to seize the opportunities that have arisen from the economic recession. In her speech, Kagan offered career advice to a Law School class whose job searches were hit hard...
...When I was considering transferring during my freshman year of college, I looked with disdain upon Princeton when I learned that it was— at the time—the only other Ivy League school that did not accept transfer students. I thought that it represented a brand of elitism that was unique to Princeton. That school remains Harvard’s only Ivy League partner-in-crime in this decision. And, outside of the Ivy League, top schools like Stanford, Duke, the University of Chicago, Amherst, Williams, and Swarthmore all accept transfer students. Harvard should be as concerned...
...While Obama plans to address the people of Muslim nations on Thursday in Cairo, his visit to the Saudi capital was confined to private meetings with the King - although before beginning his private meetings, Obama did try to connect the two. "We'll be visiting Cairo tomorrow," he said upon arriving at Abdullah's private farm. "I thought it was very important to come to the place where Islam began and to seek His Majesty's counsel and to discuss with him many of the issues that we confront here in the Middle East...
...attack (AOA) - the angle between its wings and the air flowing over them - to the flight-control computer. "For some reason, the damn computer disregarded the healthy channels," says Hans Weber, an aviation expert who heads Tecop International, an aviation-consulting firm in San Diego. "Instead, it acted upon the information from the rogue channel." The computer, responding to the faulty data, put the plane into a dive. (Read "Is There a Cause for Fear of Flying...