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...Nick revived polo, one of Harvard’s oldest sports, by battling the bureaucracy and garnering alumni funds. A former hockey player, Nick has interacted with a wide variety of students and understands the diversity in feelings towards Harvard social life...
Most people don't have anything on Somalia. It is a hot, poor swath of desert and swamp, sparsely populated by camel herders, mango farmers and fishermen. But in the mental map of Islamic militants, it looms large. The oldest al-Qaeda training camp in Africa, Ras Kamboni, is perched on Somalia's southeastern tip, surrounded by swampy jungle that makes it as inaccessible as the hill caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan. Radical groups like al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, funded and trained by foreign militants supplied by Osama bin Laden, have been in Somalia for years. The same...
...oldest and only male child in his family, Dani bears much responsibility. His father, Bashkin, now 57, has been unemployed for the past two years. It is Dani who supports the family on the $1,070 a month he makes as a translator for Irish peacekeeping troops, while studying sociology at the local university...
...Consisting of several Harvard undergraduates, the cast of “John Harvard” started rehearsing two and a half months prior to the two days of filming in April. The movie was filmed primarily at the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House at the Cambridge Historical Society, the second oldest house in Cambridge. Alex R. Breaux ’09, a psychology concentrator interested in pursuing acting after graduation, donned breeches and stockings for the lead. In order to prepare for the role, Breaux read up on Harvard’s historical background. “It was good...
...oldest continuous chapter of the national organization, Harvard’s Alpha Iota of Massachusetts elects students in three sets: twenty-four are selected during junior spring, forty-eight during senior fall, and approximately ninety at the end of senior year—totalling nearly 10% of the graduating class...