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...League squash was thrust into the national spotlight. The Harvard men’s and women’s teams traveled to Hanover, N.H., where they were greeted with a barrage of profanity-laced abuse from a section of the Dartmouth crowd. An article in the Valley News, a local New Hampshire paper, described the episode, and the story blew up from there. The match received so much attention that Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim issued an apology to Drew Faust for the incident...
...lead. Many of The Crimson’s boards ask their newly elected members to accomplish optional good-natured “missions” as part of the fun of elections day, which often include scavenger hunts, love poems to editors, and song-and-dance routines. The news board, in what most would consider fairly harmless fun, asked some of their members to get Hallmark greeting cards signed by someone in the registrar’s office...
Earlier this month, news broke that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology would become the first university to contribute intellectual property to the GlaxoSmithKline patent pool for “neglected tropical diseases,” diseases that predominantly or exclusively affect people in developing countries. The MIT announcement is part of a growing movement among universities to focus on gaps in a drug-development system that too often neglects the needs of patients in the developing world...
Gabriel J Daly ’10, an inactive Crimson news writer, is a social studies concentrator in Dunster House...
...speech to a Development Economics Seminar at the World Bank, “When one takes into account all its benefits, educating girls yields a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world.” A 2010 World Bank “News and Broadcast” article in honor of International Women’s Day corroborates Summers’ declaration, noting that a “one-year increase in the schooling of all adult females in a country is associated with an increase in GDP per capita of around...