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Wilson’s environmental concerns are not all overseas. “One of the biggest issues I’ve noticed at Harvard is the waste of electrical energy needlessly,” Wilson says. At his request, the windows of the Jefferson/Lyman science building at Harvard were changed to double-paned in order to be more energy resourceful, and many other buildings soon followed suit...
...July, every incoming first-year receives a thick envelop full of information about advanced standing, Expos and other relevant aspects of life at Harvard. Mixed in with this mailing is a Religious Interest Card, which allows students to request information from College religious organizations before arriving on campus, but the list is not exhaustive. Organizations not affiliated with Harvard’s United Ministries (UM) do not make it onto the card, are not listed in the Harvard directory, cannot advertise on student activities day or on campus billboards and their leaders do not get any University privileges. Without...
...remembers getting a request for a book of poems that a groom could use at a wedding ceremony...
...quickly responded to the request for “something rye but not insulting, light but serious,” by thumbing through works by Ogden Nash and Dorothy Parker...
...modern campaign: focus groups, photo ops and brutally negative ads. She resists their suggestions as "phony American tricks." (One of numerous ironies is that many former subjects of the "evil empire" are more idealistic about democracy than the Yanks.) But eventually she accedes even to the brazen request that Yeltsin give a speech sober. "Perhaps we should schedule the speech early in the day," she offers...