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To woo kids back, the American Embassy in London is promoting the country's diversity and popular culture as reasons to understand it better. Encouraging people to study the country "furthers our mission to explain America to the world," says Liza Davis, the Embassy's cultural attaché. The embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Studies: Stars and Gripes | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

In school, mathematics just isn’t cool. Long division, standard deviation and the hypotenuse seem be, at the very least, a source of ennui for most students. Sadly, this harmful contempt for math has produced an educational culture that lacks both the enthusiasm and foundational support to produce...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: We Love Math! | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

Both men have shown they will do what's necessary to win. For Obama, that meant trimming positions on offshore drilling, gun control, nafta, Cuba, public campaign funding, fisa. And in choosing Joe Biden, he acknowledged that when it comes to making change happen, a working knowledge of the old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Temperament Factor: Who's Best Suited to the Job? | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

Antonio C. Baclig ’09, a chemistry and physics concentrator who lives in Leverett House, said he found the alumni advice useful.

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Yuying Luo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Alumni Reunite After Thirty, Forty, and Forty-Five Years | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

The whole plan got afoot last fall when Thomas A. Dingman ’67, the dean of freshmen, took several upperclassmen to a theatrical essay toward racial understanding, “Nigger Wetback Chink.” While the group found the show useful as a point of departure...

Author: By Roger G. Waite | Title: Black Mischief | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

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