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...Georgia and No. 6 California, among other teams, the Crimson made its presence known and dramatically rewrote the school record board with a third-place finish. The sophomore class provided the Harvard firepower, with Pickard claiming five records and Mills four.Mills got things started on Friday in the 500-yard freestyle, winning the B final in 4:44.52 and stripping nearly three seconds off junior co-captain Alexandra Clarke’s previous record. Clarke was 13th in the event, and sophomore Christine Kaufman was 11th. “Every single person at this meet did something amazing...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Records Fall as Crimson Soars | 12/7/2008 | See Source »

Sugata Bose, a History professor and a native of India, set the tone for the evening with a personal reflection: “The lamps that you have lit here in Harvard Yard will help to dispel the darkness that has been threatening to envelop us in South Asia...

Author: By Mac Mcanulty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Candelight Vigil Mourns Terror Victims | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...really of two minds about this,” says former New York Times food editor and current Wall Street Journal Eating Out columnist Raymond A. Sokolov ’63. “I went to a meeting a year or two ago in the Radcliffe Yard honoring [food historian and author] Barbara Wheaton, and there was a lot of discussion about an academic food studies program. I got up and asked everyone, ‘If suddenly Melinda Gates came and offered lots of money for a chair in food studies or food history, would you really want...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cooking the Books | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...problem, to his mind, was a failure of the College community. Harvard was outgrowing life long centered around the Yard. Yet in bursting the Yard’s bounds, something essential was being lost: the physical proximity and social interaction with faculty and fellow students that not only enriched the College experience, but which were an integral part...

Author: By Drew G. Faust, Evelynn M. Hammonds, and Michael D. Smith | Title: Renewing a Venerable Experiment | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...America needs to deliver a Marshall Plan to the Arab world - not in the form of money to rebuild war-torn cities but in the form of ideas to rebuild violence-torn minds. We have no alternative. In my yard there are stubborn patches of crabgrass. It's tempting to take a weed whacker and chop them down, but the crabgrass comes back twice as strong unless you get at its roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Prevent Another Mumbai | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

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