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When will Harvard (and America) join the rest of the world? We cannot and should not continue with pounds-per-square-inch when we could be using the far more elegant pascals. We cannot and should not continue with drams and stones, when centigrams and kilograms could be used instead. Metric is elegant (think: the French), while Imperial is ugly, cocky, authoritarian. (Perhaps it should continue to be used in the “red states,” but not anywhere near civilized folks...
...Institute. “The field of African and African American Studies is very broad and interdisciplinary, and so we look for candidates reflective of that breadth.” She added that the Institute invites scholars at different stages of their academic careers.This year’s fellows join a list of Institute alumni that includes 1986 Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, the first African to be honored in literature, and current Thomas Professor of African and African American Studies Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. Phyllis S. Taoua, a scholar of Francophone literature at the University of Arizona who said she plans...
...began with an attempt to join the equestrian team...
...rehabilitation centers in Lira for children who have escaped from the LRA. “It’s pretty intense, when you see this kid and know that he’s killed someone,” she said. That intensity, she said, impelled her to join the Uganda Conflict Action Network and become involved with Gulu Walk. Many of the marchers at Saturday’s event said they became involved after having similar experiences. Meddie Katongole, originally from Uganda, came all the way from Albany to be a part of the walk...
...punch book” of the Isis Club, a female final club, was accessible in the public domain, and, predictably, many curious Harvard students accessed this sensitive information. A punch book contains comments about every current “punch” (the students who wish to join the club) and, as one could imagine, the comments are rarely based on any sort of merit. The Isis’ book is rife with vapid and positive evaluations, as well as harsh critiques based on punches’ accessories, shrill vocal tones, social faux pas, and dating infidelities...