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...most Harvard students, intersession has already begun: their remaining responsibilities include planning vacations and gloating to unlucky roommates with dreaded Monday and Tuesday exams. But a fortunate few have been laughing for some time now—students who, through a combination of term papers and December exams, have gone through January fully final-free. Thanks to serendipitous scheduling last winter, Amy C. Stebbins ’07, a History and Literature concentrator, finished all five of her courses without sitting for a single final exam, ending up with perhaps the longest intersession of any student. The combination...
...people of France agree on very little, but for decades one touchstone of national feeling has been respect and love for a frail, bearded, beret-wearing force of nature named Abb? Pierre. The death on Monday, at the age of 94, of France's "voice of the voiceless" has inserted a pause in a divisive presidential election campaign as France pays homage to a man of unerring courage and compassion; a man who embodied the best of French traditions...
During the lifetimes of most Harvard undergraduates, Richard A. Musgrave—a founder of modern public sector economics—was in retirement.Musgrave, who died Monday at age 96, also came from an era preceding current economics faculty. But his ideas about the state’s role in the economy left a lasting impact felt by Harvard faculty and alums today.Having taught public finance at Harvard for about two decades, Musgrave had been an emeritus professor since 1981.“The training I received well after he had retired was different because he was around...
...says John Woodward, the Film Council's CEO. "But if you can build confidence and persuade the financing community that, going forward, things are going to be stable, you're in a good position." Hollywood already adores Brits: Helen Mirren and Sacha Baron Cohen picked up top awards at Monday's Golden Globes, while a bunch of their compatriots are tipped for Oscar nominations on Jan. 23. Now Britain's film industry is a main attraction again...
...holy grail of crossword publications, the Times, is every cruciverbalist’s dream. In the Times, puzzles get harder as the week progresses from Monday to Saturday. Although Saturday puzzles are the hardest, Sunday’s is bigger than the others, clocking in at about a Thursday in difficulty—it’s the peak of crossword writing. And one Harvard sophomore has made...