Year: 2002

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    The big picture:

    He has a room named after him. And a cajun-spiced burger in the cafeteria. But Ronnie Levesque isnt a movie star, a rock singer, or any other kind of celebrity. Hes the superintendent of Quincy House.

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    John Rawls, influential political philosopher, dead at 81 :

    John Rawls, the James Bryant Conant University Professor Emeritus, whose 1971 book, A Theory of Justice argued persuasively for a society based on equality and individual rights, died Nov. 24 at the age of 81.

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    President Summers and Provost Hyman set office hours

    President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:

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    Police reports

    Following are some the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 30. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

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    This month in Harvard History

    Dec. 6-7, 1941 – Harvard faculty, government officials, and labor delegates convene at the Business School for a conference on Labor and National Defense. It is believed to be the first meeting of its kind in the nation.

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    ‘Disparities in Minority Healthcare’ is topic

    The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations will present a daylong conference on Saturday (Dec. 7) from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Harvard Hall, Room 202, titled Disparities in Minority Healthcare: Reaching Out to the Community. The student-directed conference will address a wide range of health-care issues facing impoverished American communities, including Native…

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    Faculty Council notice for Dec. 4

    At its sixth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed recent free speech issues in the faculty. The dean of the Faculty, Professor William Kirby (history), and the dean of Undergraduate Education, Professor Benedict Gross (mathematics), also updated the council on the Curricular Review. Additionally the dean of the College, Professor Harry Lewis (DEAS),…

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    Clarification

    The Harvard University English Department resolved on Nov. 19 to renew its invitation to Tom Paulin to give a poetry reading, under the Morris Gray Lectureship. The faculty members present, constituting nearly the entire department, approved this decision with no opposing votes. There were two abstentions.

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    Yes, Virginia:

    Stenciled graffiti on Mt. Auburn Street is clearly designed to ease the nagging doubts in this strollers mind.

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    Geographical information systems conference showcases the future

    Begun as a mapping software decades ago, geographical information systems, known as GIS, today functions to manage different time- and place-dependent data and allows different variables to be projected together,…

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    Bottle-feeding before bed time may increase risk of childhood asthma

    Nearly one in 13 children in America has asthma. The National Institutes of Health reports that the prevalence of asthma around the world has doubled in the last 15 years,…

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    Study predicts risk of prostate cancer death

    Researchers followed 381 people to “identify predictors of time to prostate specific death following external radiation therapy.” “The results of this study give us a better understanding of what form…

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    Researchers shed light on genetic defects that cause diabetes

    New findings by researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center visualize the protein that is mutated in most individuals having a form of diabetes called Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY).…

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    Nuts lower diabetes risk

    Women in a study who reported eating nuts at least five times per week reduced their risk of type 2 diabetes by almost 30 percent compared to those who rarely…

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    John Rawls, influential political philosopher, dead at 81:

    Author of ‘A Theory of Justice’ was James Bryant Conant University Professor Emeritus

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    Forum will be dedicated in fall 2003in honor of John F. Kennedy Jr.

    The ARCO Forum at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government will be renamed the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, it was announced on Monday, Nov. 25. The forum will be renovated during the summer of 2003 and dedicated in the fall of next year. On Monday, Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. (left)…

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    Robert Clark to conclude serviceas Harvard Law School dean

    Robert C. Clark will conclude his service as Dean of Harvard Law School at the end of the 2002-03 academic year, he announced today (Nov. 25).

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    Protein predicts heart disease better than cholesterol

    C-reactive protein’s claim to fame is based on its power to predict a woman’s risk of developing heart attack and stroke. In fact, high levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) were…

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    FDR slept here

    The toilet runs, there’s graffiti on the windows and a former resident left behind some belongings in this historic Harvard dormitory.

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    Harvard College Early Action reaches record levels

    The number of applicants for Early Action admission to Harvard College has risen 24 percent above last year’s record 6,128 to a total of 7,615. The academic quality of the pool is impressive. For example, 64 percent of the applicants average 1,400 or more on the combined SAT verbal and math test.

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    Dining Services dishes up community service:

    Harvard is dishing up another helping of community service with its annual Pie in the Sky effort. On Sunday (Nov. 24), more than 50 staff members and their families from Dining Services and the Office of Human Resources (OHR) will bake and box 1,750 pies. The massive volunteer effort supports Community Servings, which sells the…

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    Expansion to bring energy to European Union:

    The coming expansion of the European Union to include 10 Eastern and Central European countries will fulfill an age-old dream of European unification and add vitality and energy to the organization, the ambassadors of four candidate nations said last week.

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    SPH works to restore public’s trust in health care system:

    Thalidomide, DES (stilbsestrol), the Dalkon shield, hormone replacement therapy. The names of these high-profile medical blunders were enough to make the point. ABC News analyst Cokie Roberts in a few seconds captured a central factor in the erosion of trust in the health care system.

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    As part of curriculum review, FAS listens to “Views from Outside Cambridge”:

    In a recent, lively discussion in the Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall, three professors from Yale, Brown, and Columbia universities described how their schools educate their undergraduates. Their philosophies of education ran the gamut, representing different worldviews on what a college education is all about.

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    When billionaires fight millionaires:

    For a discussion on labor negotiations, this past Fridays (Nov. 15) forum at Langdell Hall on Major League Baseballs (MLB) latest round of collective bargaining was as cordial as they come. So cordial, in fact, that panelist Andrew Zimbalist, a leading sports economist at Smith College and author of Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look…

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    Jantzen wrestles with a purpose:

    His Olympic dream began decades ago, at the knee of his dad, watching the Olympics together on television. It might have been 1988, or 1992, Harvard junior Jesse Jantzen isnt sure. What he is sure of is that even at age 6, when the 1988 games occurred, he had already been wrestling in tournaments for…

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    From Law School roots, BELL puts kids on “success spiral”:

    As a student at Harvard Law School (HLS), Earl Martin Phalen did much of his learning and career building in elementary school.

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    Fall’s final Sackler Saturday

    Before the Harvard-Yale game this Saturday (Nov. 23), the Arthur M. Sackler Museum invites families to attend its final Sackler Saturday event of the fall: Ancient Entertainment: Music, Games, and Dance in Art. Children can listen to ancient Chinese bells, see Indian dancers, play games that the ancient Greeks and Romans once enjoyed, and take…

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    Internet conference examines Harvard’s digital identity:

    From the failed promise of flying vehicles to the very real presence of virtual tours on the Internet, Harvard administrators, faculty, and information technology professionals examined the impact of technology on Harvards digital identity at a Harvard Law School conference last week.

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    Third-quarter spark burns Yale, 20-13, in ‘The Game’

    An explosive third quarter lifted the Harvard football team past Yale on Saturday afternoon (Nov. 23), to hand the Crimson a 20-13 Harvard Stadium victory in the 119th playing of

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