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...realized we could get what we needed without having to sell, and the Bee could get what it needed with a long-term lease,” he said...
...before they had done much more than arrive. The Greatest Generation—our grandparents—only got that label decades after they had earned it. Some have tried to call our generation a “Lost Generation,” echoing Gertrude Stein, who coined the term in reference to the original Lost Generation of the 1920s...
Many Harvard students speak of going abroad as an item they wish they’d gotten to on their list of things to do in college. The percentage who actually spend a full term abroad, though, barely pushes double digits. It may often have left me feeling like nothing beyond a more invasive tourist, but studying elsewhere taught me to take that tourist’s eye to my own surroundings in a way that no stack of books on deconstructing social norms can compel...
...journalist learned, this term, which has for the past decade symbolized women’s oppression by intolerant Islam, is a misnomer for the “integral veils” that are now being legally targeted in France, not to mention Belgium and Italy as well. Although pointed to by politicians as a dangerous new social problem, the practice is extremely rare. Even those who speak in favor of banning what the proposed law calls “public facial dissimulation” admit that the phenomenon is extremely marginal. Initial government intelligence reports named 367 documented cases...
...participate in a vibrant undergraduate community. This summer, about 120 PRISE Fellows will be working with Harvard faculty at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and other Harvard-affiliated institutions. There is good reason for focusing on summer research. Term-time research, while valuable, does not replace the intensive experience of working on a project full time for more than two months during the summer. Students typically spend six to 12 hours per week working in the lab during the term, perhaps less if the lab is located off-campus. During...