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Jared M. Markowitz G, a graduate student in the Deparment of Physics, finished 47th place at the Boston Marathon on Monday. His official time was 2:27:16.

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Swede Noomi Rapace gives a stunning performance as computer hacker Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Your typical hero story, but with cuter characters.

Philanthropist, Microsoft co-founder, and Harvard dropout Bill Gates speaks to students in Kresge Auditorium on Wednesday about global health, poverty, and education. He encouraged students to apply their talents towa...

As Bill Gates looks on, Christopher A. Moses ‘10 explains Sana (formerly Moca), an organization that helps connect patients, doctors and nurses using cell phone technology.

A group of MIT Gates Millennium Scholars assembles to meet Bill Gates during his visit to MIT on Wednesday.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a...piano? As a Baker House tradition on drop date, President Andy Wu ’12 released the cumbersome musical instrument off the roof into the courtyard on Thursday evening.

The Mark Wood Experience, featuring Mark Wood, former member of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, was the main act of Concert for a Cure hosted last Sunday at Club Oberon by MIT’s Sigma Phi Episilon fraternity and Harvard...

Felicia Zhang and Taylor Toth, junior national champions in pairs skating, perform at An Evening with Champions, Harvard’s annual ice skating charity event last week.

Lamine Touré of MIT Rambax, a Senegalese drumming ensemble, leads a group of more than thirty MIT students during the group’s concert in Lobdell on Sunday.

Stephanie C. Leger ’11 leads the charge against Williams College on Thursday last week. The Engineers lost 12-5.

Jacob T. Bredthauer ’11 of the MIT Cross Products closes out the Break it Down Boston concert last Saturday night. Ten Christian acapella groups from New England schools performed at the event.

Ethan F. Gillett G throws to Brian J. Munroe G in the Metro Boston sectionals. With the win, the men’s ultimate frisbee team secured a bid to the New England regional tournament in May.

Oh snap! After narrowly avoiding a collision with Princeton’s boat, whose steering cable had snapped, the men’s heavyweight crew team came in second at the Compton Cup last Saturday.

After falling more than six stories, nothing remains of the piano except a jumbled mess.

Early Wednesday morning, hackers installed a bottle of “MIT Edition” Axe body spray on the ledge of Building 10. The hack was apparently a comment on the recently passed Undergraduate Associate Senate bill to provide ...

Singer-songwriter and YouTube star Kina Grannis performs during the 13th annual AAA Grains of Rice culture show last Saturday in Walker Memorial. Several MIT, Harvard, and Boston-based groups performed a piece of Asi...

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano speaks in the Emma Savage Rogers Room (10-340) last Friday. Napolitano met with the heads of Boston-area universities at MIT to discuss how national security can be aide...

Cimarron J. L. Wortham G adjusts the rear derailleur of a bicycle brought to a free bicycle repair clinic held on the steps outside of the Stratton Student Center on Thursday. The clinic, held every year on Earth Day,...

Minister Patrick Delatour, Chairman of the Presidential Commission for Reconstruction and Minister of Tourism of Haiti, spoke to the MIT community about plans for the reconstruction of Haiti Friday morning in 6-120. M...

(left to right) Marie C. Mcgraw ’12, Emma C. Jeffries ’11, and Catey L. Harwell ’11 of the women’s lightweight crew team race early Sunday morning against Stanford. The Engineers lost both varsity races to the No. 2 r...

Jeffrey Y. Warren G, Nathan Cook, and John P. Murphy ’10 prepare to launch a helium balloon from McDermott Court on Tuesday as part of Microdot, a temporary autonomous nation bounded by the circular lawn. The balloon ...