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...Despite that global scope, Interpol's headquarters - with its sky-lit atrium, potted plants and sweeping views of the Rhône River - still has the air of a mid-sized company rather than a law-enforcement organization. Most of the few hundred people in the building are on first-name terms. The organization squeezes by on a budget of about $65 million a year from member countries' donations - approximately the same amount that the New York Police Department spends in an average week. Interpol's staff in Lyons joke bitterly that the organization costs little more than David Beckham...
...long on either end...it’s surprising how lasting the relationships become.” While HCAP members speak fondly of their academic experiences abroad (museum visits!), it is the social and cultural interactions that stand out in their memories. Bunking up together in the Yard (or River, or Quad) makes for closer bonding, and not just due to the bathroom sharing. HCAP member Ana M. Franco ’10 hosted two Japanese delegates, and ended up sharing late-night bonding as well as her bed. Despite the early-morning events and lectures, the three girls stayed...
...that you can use it whenever you are home. Morning hours, like evening hours, are important because those are times when students who live in the Quad are actually there. Morning hours are also the least convenient hours in the day to draw women and religious minorities from river houses that the new policy is supposedly aimed at benefiting. Why make a trek at eight in the morning when there’s a gym right outside your doorstep? Well, for us Quadlings, the QRAC is right outside our doorstep...
...skills—by becoming proficient in a musical instrument, for example, rather than taking a music class. CONSERVING TALENTSome Harvard musicians have already begun developing both their musical proficiency and their analyitical ability. In conjunction with Harvard, the New England Conservatory (NEC), located just across the river from campus, offers a joint-education program that allows a student to graduate from the college in four years with a B.A. while taking studio instruction and music courses simultaneously. A fifth year of study and performance at the graduate level is necessary to complete the program, and each graduate...
...corrode.” The sewage surfaced as the Faculties of Arts and Sciences are considering major renovations to the College’s twelve undergraduate houses, an initiative Rosen said he hoped would receive greater attention after the waters recede. “Everybody knows that the River Houses are old and at some point the University will have to do something to fix them up.” Rosen said. “I hope this flood adds some sense of urgency to the plans to renovate the Houses.” Interim Dean of the College David...