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Joe Mathews

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How to Succeed in Local Politics

Name: Anjan Mukherjee Where he lives: Mather House Hometown: Lexington, MA Does he spend much time there? "Sophomore year, kind


Parents' Optimism Is Today's Apathy

The day my parents graduated from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges in 1967, they walked over to the First Congregational Church


Hoyte Has a Plan

Anyone with a strong opinion about affirmative action could have learned something from a sparsely-attended but thoughtful talk given last


Not Too Late For Grant

Harvard's campus is about to become significantly less safe. That, at least, is what the University's police officers and security


Admit Gina Grant

If ever there was a case for affirmative action, it was Gina Grant's. By now, the story is familiar to


California Dreaming

L OS ANGELES--Like rush hour traffic on the southbound Santa Ana Freeway on those days when Al Cowlings and O.J.


Historians Decry Harvard's '50 Year Rule'

In the spring of 1954, a Harvard graduate student named Sigmund Diamond received a visit from agents of the Federal


Benefits Crisis Unsolved

Drop the qualifiers. The University's benefits review process has now been all but officially labelled a failure. Harvard administrators have


Panels Highlight Human Rights

Approximately 200 students, faculty and interested visitors attended various parts of the first ever University-wide conference on human rights Saturday.