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Adios, Early Admissions
Harvard College has ended its early admissions deadline. Beginning in the fall of 2007, students applying for admission to the class of 2012...
In this Issue
Yesterdays News Harvard Portrait Interim Agendas An Allston Metamorphosis? Adios, Early Admissions Money-Management Makeover Controversial...
The Ethanol Illusion
Americans annual consumption of gasoline (for both private and commercial transportation) amounts to more than 140 billion gallonsclose to 500...
Review of Daniel Golden’s “The Price of Admission”
A review of Daniel Golden’s The Price of Admission: How Americas Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
“This Craving to Fly”
In a darkened alley next to the Cleveland Public Theatre, the crowd stares up at a sprite in white suspended from two rings high above the...
Questing Eye
Each night that it has run since its April launch, the 72-inch optical telescope at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, has...
Sciences and Gender
Women are underrepresented in academic science and engineering, according to a report issued in September by the National Academies, not because...
Susanne Ebbinghaus
The recently appointed Hanfmann curator of ancient art at the Harvard University Art Museums and a lecturer on the classics, Susanne Ebbinghaus...
The status of geography
Three days before Harvards launch of the Center for Geographic Analysis, National Geographic News released the results of a survey of geographic...
Extracurriculars
Enjoy a range of offerings in and around Harvard Square this winter, from German folk dancing, Christmas carols, and a Da de los Muertos...
Bell Swap
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." From the moment they first spoke in Cambridge, in February...
Arriflex and Amber
At nightfall, the hyenas began to cry and laugh after we had eaten and were enjoying our recent successes in the art of nonfiction filmmaking...