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...tangent about how an alarming number of people—Harvard undergraduates included—don’t know why we have seasons. Gould’s many books and essays, including The Structure of Evolutionary History, also follow this fascinatingly digressive, metaphorical route. His famous monthly column in National History magazine began in January 1974 and ended in January 2001, upon the “fortuitous” publication of the 300th essay. Gould calls them “popular, conventional…essays, mostly dealing with evolution in one way or another.” Evolution...
Meredith B. Osborn ’02 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays...
...some incomplete coverage in the fall, an excellent account of the issues by Richard T. Halvorson ’03 appeared in February (News: “Protests Targets Course Diversity,” Feb. 13) and a thoughtful opinion piece by Stephen E. Sachs ’02 (Column: “A Different Ethnic Studies,” March 5) followed. These pieces notwithstanding, some older and some more recent reporting and opinion pieces deserve a few words of clarification. In addition, this occasion presents an opportunity to suggest where ethnic studies may be headed in the future...
Robert J. Fenster ’02 is a biology concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...
Earlier this year, in September, I wrote a column declaring that Boston sports had reached an all-time low. Never, I claimed, had Boston sports teams been worse. The Patriots had just lost to Cincinatti in the team’s football opener, the Celtics and Bruins finished up miserable seasons and the Red Sox had fired, ridiculed or pissed off anyone associated in the organization...