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...biological sciences, are generating a great deal of excitement. Yet White House antagonism may threaten the realization of practical progress. In the current budget proposal, submitted by President George W. Bush and now appearing before congress, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would be provided nominal funding at last year??s level. With inflation, this effectively represents a decrease in the real value of funding to the NIH. This perverse budgetary approach to American science has come at terrible time, considering the great potential in biomedical fields. Harvard—among other preeminent research universities?...
...cannot help but feel the pangs of sadness as this bias becomes more and more clear. Ferraro, once labeled “something that rhymes with rich” (to quote Barbara Bush) did in courageous failure pave the way for this year??s historic primary. Now, older, off her game and embroiled in the vitriolic message warfare attached to that primary, she appears to have debased her own iconic legacy in an attempt to sully another—Obama’s—which is still being shaped...
...likelies,” this year to try to attract students who will or already do have offers from other schools. ‘EXPLODING OFFERS’Though the Ivy League maintains a single reply date for regular admissions—March 31 this year??colleges can offer students the next best thing to an official decision with a proverbial wink, under the theory that an applicant who has more time to consider a college will be likelier to attend.Harvard isn’t the only school to follow this practice. Other Ivy League schools that send...
...study abroad. Sophomore concentrators will also have the opportunity to take a new course—HAA 100r—that will culminate in a trip overseas. Katherine L. Blackstock ’10, a current member of the HAA 100r seminar, says that the goal of this year??s course specifically is to “look at how excavations are conducted, and then...look at the relationship between the excavations and architectural studies.” Faculty in HAA stress the importance of this early access to fieldwork. “Right from the very beginning...
...this year,” he said. “It’s been an amazing season.” Certainly the breaststroke and the individual medley specialist has a point, as winning the Philip Moriarty Award for the most outstanding swimmer at last year??s meet did not translate into a team victory. Still, Rathgeber enjoyed the best of both worlds in 2008, sharing the award while contributing phenomenally to the team’s success. Along with freshman Jordan Diekema, junior Bill Jones, and senior Pat Quinn, Rathgeber set a pool, meet, and EISL record...