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Among our most prominent romanticized notions about the probabilistic iron cage is the assertion that an infinite number of monkeys, given time and typewriters, will almost surely compose the works of William Shakespeare. Rather than hold to the comforts of that theory, in 2003, researchers put six Sulawesi crested macaques to the test for a month. They turned out just five pages of text, largely filled with the letter...
...flurry of support for international programs is a testament to this The number of students at Harvard who study abroad each year has grown by 300 percent in the last six years. Former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby was a staunch supporter of study abroad and David Rockefeller ’36 recently donated $100 million to the college, 70 percent of which was intended to go towards students learning about foreign cultures through international travel...
America's first great piano virtuoso was a darkly handsome, intense young New Yorker named William Kapell. He had it all: a staggering technique, passion and an artistic instinct that pierced to the heart of every piece. In 1953 he died in a plane crash at 31. All that remained were his legend and a handful of recordings. Then in 2004 a trove of new Kapell performances surfaced, recorded at home by Australian department-store salesman Roy Preston from radio broadcasts of Kapell's final tour. A selection of those recordings is now being released in a two-disc...
Lieut. Colonel William Zemp is full of praise for the 700 Iraqi troops who have been helping bring peace to the countryside around Mahmudiya, a town 20 miles (30 km) south of Baghdad. As he leads his troops on patrol through a farming village, Zemp notes that less than six months ago, the area was prime insurgent territory and U.S. patrols routinely came under attack. On this April day, however, children poke their heads out of mud-brick doorways to wave, and two families even invite the troops to join in their modest midday meals. None of this would have...
...number of Harvard students receiving the federally-funded Pell Grant continues to rise despite a trend in the opposite direction at the nation’s wealthiest colleges. According to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, the percentage of undergraduates receiving the grant—traditionally an indicator of the number of low-income students in the College—has risen from 6.8 in 2000-2001 to 13 in 2007-2008. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last week that from 2004-2005 to 2006-2007, the average proportion of Pell Grant...