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...before you wince in pain and cry out that we have already been through this, spent years agonizing over Fair Harvard’s most controversial lyrical change, rest assured: This is not a chauvinist attempt to restore the patriarchal language of our dear hymn. I simply want to suggest correcting one glaring, but easily fixed grammatical and connotative mistake in one of our university’s most cherished traditions...
...have taken a number of trips to meet with policy-makers. I visited China in the late fall and spent time with the central bank and people in the finance ministry and people involved with their development....Over the course of the spring, I spent some time in India discussing, among other things, issues related to reserve management and globalization issues more generally. I also visited Mexico where I discussed issues related to globalization and trade with President [Felipe] Calderon and the finance minister and the central bank governor...And then I’ve also been in Europe several...
...exams and papers on my mind. In the middle of writing a paper, I took a break and went down to the Lowell House dining hall. One of the House masters, Reverend Dr. Dorothy Austin, nervously asked what I thought of the campaign. I told her that I had spent two sweltering summers in Washington for Hillary; that in her Senate office and the campaign research department, I was surrounded by young, energetic people dedicated to someone they believe in; that I knew that thousands of people were in this together. It couldn’t all be over...
...course in pre-modern history, one course in Western history, one course in non-Western history, and six additional half-courses in the department or related fields), the traditional survey courses that are so fundamental to a background in historical study have a Western bias. The measly two weeks spent on European expansion and imperialism in History 10b: Western Economies, Societies and Polities from 1648 to the Present (this seems a little sparse considering the extreme force with which European “expansion” impacted the economics and politics of the modern world), require no readings from...
...sites, advised the graduates that they should always maintain their priorities. Though she has dined at the White House, attended the Academy Awards, and thrown out the opening pitch at Shea Stadium three times, Moore said that her most lasting memory has been the time that she has spent with her family...