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...seniors, for the love of God, when you’re about to gripe about your third chapter or grumble about your advisor, hold your tongue. Talk about something, anything, else instead: the Gold Medal fiasco, the hottie in your Warren Court section, Boston’s crappy weather. Even Crossroads would be a more appreciated, exhilarating conversation topic. And to everyone else out there not writing theses, resist the (incomprehensible) temptation and don’t ask about them. You know you’re not really interested, anyway, and your feigned curiosity only perpetuates the misconception that anyone...
Even thousands strong, the Harvard campus protest march has yet to affect major policy change. Things aren’t looking too promising for the 20-odd supporters of the Committee on Ethnic Studies’ certificate program who braved cold weather and total apathy toward their cause in a protest last week. Yeh, who is spearheading the certificate push, is not as glibly optimistic as most Faculty. “I do see Harvard kind of changing along with the curriculum, as other colleges do,” he admits reluctantly. But he adds...
...Sino-U.S. spy-plane incident last spring, has kept this one under wraps. "I'm interested in the dog that didn't bark here," says James Mulvenon, a China analyst at Rand Corp. "Both sides want the trip to go well so badly that they're willing to weather this storm...
...chief Betsy Carter, 56, says the magazine has no formula, most covers feature graying celebrities like Jeff Bridges, 51, and Sissy Spacek, 52. September's issue offered suggestions on how to tell your kids not to take the drugs you did yourself. December's looked at once violent Weather Underground members who came out of hiding in the 1980s to lead middle-class lives...
Douthat: I think it is possible that this could be good for the department in a way. It could of course be disastrous as well, but I think that if the department can weather something like this, can weather having two of three or four of its best faculty leave, then that would be a great success. Because it seems to me that as Tim said, right now from an exterior perspective the Af-Am department is defined by the fact that we have the best black professors in America, not by the fact that we’re doing...