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Heavyweight Contender
Grappler Dawid Rechul may be the most flexible man in his class
After the Boom
After a decade of explosive expansion for Harvard's two fastest-growing schools, one faces a deficit and is cutting costs, while the other has...
Grade Inflation Resolved
TO: President Lawrence H. Summers FROM: Task Force on Grade Inflation SUBJECT: Findings and Recommendations Illustration by Lynne Foy...
Two Charged in Theft
Seniors Suzanne M. Pomey '02 and Randy J. Gomes '02 allegedly stole about $90,000 from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. They were due to be...
Evolution, Synthesized
Few people would have the credentials, history, background, or brazen confidence to write a book with so definitive a title as What Evolution...
Language Wars
Lest you take these English words for granted, consider this: when the United States was founded, only 40 percent of the people living within...
Catfish, Not Salmon
First poor Southern boy with no formal education or career ambitions, then writer, poet, actor, translator, cryptographer, puppeteer, costume...
All about the Details
If you arrived early Saturday morning at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) on Presidents' Day weekend, you might have been surprised...
Portrait of a Pioneer
On February 11, a portrait of astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was scheduled to be unveiled on the wall of the Faculty Room in University...
Muscle of Optimism
Most people think of the human heart as a fist-sized, valve-studded chunk of muscle, a pump bright red as Superman's cape and nearly as strong...
A Woodsplint Basket
Displayed in the "Hall of the North American Indian" at Harvard University's Peabody Museum, the basket looks like many others made in...