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...Harvard Kennedy School professors will receive grants of up to $100,000 after being named 2009 Carnegie Scholars yesterday by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for their research on Islam and dedication to public outreach and understanding...
Approximately 30 students attended a panel discussion on the current drinking age policy and its effectiveness on college campuses in Harvard Hall yesterday evening. “We were going for a more nuanced discussion than just ‘the [current] drinking age sucks’,” said Anita J. Joseph ’12, the chair of the National Campaign Committee, the group within the Institute of Politics that sponsored the discussion. Joseph is also a Crimson editorial board editor. The discussion featured guest panelists from several walks of University life, including Ryan Travia, director...
...publisher of Rolling Stone magazine vehemently denied that print media was becoming obsolete before a crowd of eager students yesterday afternoon. “Let’s talk about the idea that print is dead,” the publisher, William Schenk, said. “I think it’s ridiculous.” While many periodicals have gone through a difficult period, Schenk said that magazines would ultimately survive because of their tactile nature. “When you put a beautiful glossy advertisement in a magazine, it creates an emotional connection that no other media...
Sasha and Malia Obama's long awaited puppy, Bo, has finally made his White House debut yesterday amid the cattle herd that is the White House press corps. But wait, a dog named Bo? As in Barack Obama's initials? With all the Harvard heavyweights manning the ship of state, no one could come up with a more creative name than Bo? FlyBy thinks B.O.'s claims to membership of the academic elite are seriously undermined by his utterly unimaginative choice of name...
...Finally, yesterday, Pyongyang threw out monitors from the International Atomic Energy Agency and said the so-called six-party talks - the forum in which the U.S. and its key partners in East Asia (South Korea, China, Japan and Russia) have tried to talk Pyongyang out of its nuclear-weapons program for the past six years - were over. Not only would the North no longer participate, it would no longer abide by anything that it had previously agreed to during the talks, which includes the dismantling of the Yongbyon reactor. (See pictures of North Koreans at the polls...