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Students Give DNC Good Reviews
By PRATEEK KUMAR
"The crowd was just electric, and you could feel how much this meant to everyone in the audience," said Harvard Dems President Jarret A. Zafran '09. "I was sitting next to two African-American women, and when [Obama] finished, one of them turned to the other and said, 'I'm 57 years old. Did you ever think we'd see this?' They were both crying."
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 2008 Democratic Convention Blog
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Patrick Talks Up Youth Vote
Harvard Tops Princeton, But Students Dismiss Rankings
By BONNIE J. KAVOUSSI
For the first time in a dozen years, Harvard won an unchallenged first in the U.S. News "Best Colleges" ranking, an achievement that knocked Princeton off of the pedestal on which it had sat for the past eight years.
Spaepen To Serve as Interim Dean of Engineering School
By ALISSA M D'GAMA and JUNE Q. WU
Frans A. Spaepen, an applied physics professor who served as director of Harvard's Rowland Institute, will become interim dean of the University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) as of September 15, Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith announced last Friday. |
University President Drew G. Faust talks with university administrators, including Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds, during Saturday night's electrical surge. Click here to read about Saturday night's power failure.
Harvard Endowment Posts 9 Percent Return in 10 Months
By CLIFFORD M MARKS
and NATHAN C. STRAUSS
Harvard's endowment posted returns of approximately 9 percent through the first 10 months of this fiscal year, according to data from the University. The increase puts the endowment's value at around $38 billion as of this April, up from $34.9 billion last June.
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China's Forgotten People
Counting Sheep in Inner Mongolia
By CHELSEA L. SHOVER
ERDOS CITY, China — Am I really here? The question that has so far defined my time in China never felt so apt as the morning when, bouncing along in the back seat of an old grey van through the winding dirt roads of Inner Mongolia, I realized that here, among the wide open grasslands and majestic mountains with air blowing through the windows and every bump throwing me up against the roof, I felt at home.
Salud!
Speaking Spanish Is Hard When Speaking English Is Easy
By VICTORIA B. KABAK
BARCELONA, Spain — On the first night of my summer study abroad program, our teaching fellow led 15 jet-lagged Harvard students through the narrow streets of Barcelona’s Old City to a restaurant off La Rambla, the city’s touristy yet iconic nucleus, which slices through the original part of the city. Brought to a long table on the roof deck of the short building, we met our professor and his family. The sun was setting, the wine flowed freely, and it felt like we could have been in the countryside rather than overlooking a bustling street.
Breakfast in Cantonese
The Most Important Meal of the Day Is Also an Important Lesson in Linguistics
By LINGBO LI
HONG KONG — I know where to get the best dim sum. I've printed out listings of swanky restaurants. I'm dreaming of street meat and cheap pastries, Portuguese egg tarts and piles of fresh seafood.
An Inescapable History
Dismantling the “New Paradigm”
By JOANNA NAPLES-MITCHELL
NEW YORK — The recent parade of current and former Bush administration officials through Congress has offered each ignoble public servant a peculiar swan song. I have had the privilege of watching this parade at close range—well, within close range of the live feed on my computer screen—as part of my work this summer.
A Walk Past the White House
Unexpected Photo-Ops in DC
By RACHEL A. STARK
WASHINGTON — A small group of kids curiously approach a poster of maimed infants entitled, “Children of the Gulf War.” Donning a large black wig and a "Bush Lies" pin, a small, elderly woman holds the poster while dutifully standing outside the White House in front of her makeshift shelter. The poster-bearer looks at the children and slowly says, “President Bush…bombs the children. He. Bombs. Them.”
Finance in the Third World
A Month of Microfinance in Southeast Asia
By CHARLES LaCALLE
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Maddox Jolie-Pitt and landmines. That was pretty much the extent of my knowledge about this exotic Southeast Asian country before I arrived. Now, after living here, working in the microfinance industry, and traveling extensively throughout the provinces, I feel a deep connection with the people and the history of Cambodia.
COMMENCEMENT 2008
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