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Ho Leaves Harvard Legacy After Career-Ending Injury

<p>With all the odds Cheng Ho’s already overcome, the senior running back deserves better than to watch his Harvard football career end with a lisfranc (mid-foot) sprain suffered last week during practice.</p>


Last Thursday, Harvard professors and lead actors from “The Wire” led a panel that addressed the hit television series’ realistic and comprehensive portrayal of American society. The event called for Harvard students to lead the way in taking productive action in urban communities.


‘The Wire’ Lays It On the Line

Sprawled on a couch, bloodshot eyes fixed on the screen, five hours into the third season: this is not the ...


Reaching the End of the Silk Road

The phenomenon of multiculturalism in today’s world often becomes so muddled and clichéd that the cultures represented become vitiated and ...


High School Gets Gleeky

I didn’t want to like “Glee.” It first entered my consciousness last May when a friend told me about the ...


Looking A‘head’ to the Egyptian Afterlife

In 1915, when a team of archaeologists from Harvard and the Museum of Fine Arts cracked open a tomb in ...


Organizations Use Art for Accessibility

Finance and astronomy may not be completely incomprehensible, but in some ways, the technical jargon and inherent speciality of these ...


Kucharczyk Welcomes Challenge of Two Teams

Nina Kucharczyk puts a new spin on being busy, even for a Harvard student. Aside from balancing classes, clubs, and a social life, the New York native is competing on not one, but two varsity athletic teams. Officially recruited for lacrosse, Kucharczyk recently joined the field hockey team as a walk-on after participating in a few practices with the Crimson squad. The key to her success—love for sports.


Coaches Descend on Lavietes

Harvard men’s basketball may not carry much weight in the sporting world, but its head coach certainly does. Coach Tommy Amaker held his third annual coaches clinic Sunday, welcoming to Lavietes Pavilion over 100 hoops coaches from across New England. Clinic participants—each involved with basketball at the high school level and below—were privy to a typical Crimson practice as well as a lecture from former NBA player and coach Doug Collins, who currently works as a broadcaster for TNT.


“Semele,” which ran this weekend in the New College Theatre, tells the tale of classic lovers Semele and the god Jupiter. Through flawless performances and moving its setting forward to the 1970s, the production delightfully updates the eighteenth century opera.


HRO Goes Back to the Future

New conductor Federico Cortese leads rousing annual debut


HRDC Panel Supplies Advice to Theater Hopefuls

Recent alums give enthusiastic advice, sobering realities of theater business


Uma Gets Personal with the Joys of ‘Motherhood’

“I think it’s interesting that people assume that motherhood isn’t worth a complex portrait in film,” says Katherine Dieckmann. The ...


Turning Over an Old Page

Looking to the past, a recent publication by HU Press tells new story of America's literary history to no one in particular


‘Semele’ Takes a Modern Tone

New production of 18th century opera brings Greek myth into 1970s


Kirwan Returns to Harvard

In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Massachusetts Port Authority fell into chaos as revenue plummeted across ...


Sophomore Makes Waves In Many Athletic Pursuits

As a teammate, Nigel Munoz commands enormous respect from his peers thanks to his track record—he already holds two of the Crimson heavyweight crew’s erg records for 2000 and 5000 meters—and his ability to exude a quiet dedication to his passions.


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