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...another the flag of the state of Massachusetts, with an individual with a rifle on either side. The cadets presented arms, and the anthem played. Instead of turning to face the American flag on the back wall of Lavietes for the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner, as per usual, Harvard head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith directed her team toward the color guard at halfcourt.The four students are members of Harvard ROTC, an organization of only a dozen or so. Eric McKinney, the captain in charge of the Harvard cadets, reached out to the athletic department to facilitate the color...
...arrived on the scene in 2001, just as Radcliffe was making the transition from “college with a research institute” into a true Institute for Advanced Study. Today, fellows at the Radcliffe Institute are able to engross themselves in their research without some of the usual burdens of academic life. “Scholars work out at the boundaries of knowledge, take risks, break old patterns and are enabled to do so without the pressures so common in present day academia—[namely] to publish quantity rather than quality, and work for quick results...
Where in the world is Moqtada al-Sadr? He hasn't been seen in public in several weeks, and he has not kept up his usual practice of leading Friday prayers at the Great Mosque in Kufa. Now U.S. officials are claiming the firebrand anti-American cleric fled to Iran two or three weeks ago, along with several commanders of his dreaded Mahdi Army militia. But senior Sadr officials in Baghdad have dismissed those claims as propaganda, and maintain he is still in his Najaf headquarters...
...have served the College with distinction. The Foundation received $100,000 dollars from the University President’s Office in 2002, and was originally planning on funding ten paintings. Due to Coit’s interest in the project and willingness to charge significantly less than his usual rate, the Foundation might now be able to fund a total of twenty portraits. Foundation Director S. Allen Counter said that the portraits’ subjects are chosen by a committee of two students and three faculty members. In past months, the Portraiture Project has unveiled paintings of L. Fred Jewett...
...Harvard women’s water polo coach Erik Farrar was nervous about his team’s trip to the Ivy Championship tournament this weekend at Brown, he had every right to be. In addition to the usual opening-weekend jitters, the Crimson had to deal with an injury-filled bench and a starting lineup that contained four freshmen and just two upperclassmen. Even with these setbacks the Crimson took second place overall, going 3-2 on the weekend to take second place in the tournament. Harvard faced the Bears in the championship game after defeating Penn...