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Nation & World
Chidambaram talks about ‘rich poor’ India
At 60 years old, India is a young nation. It is also a country that is both rich and poor.
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Nation & World
Mayor Bloomberg receives HSPH’s Richmond Award
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City has been named the 2007 recipient of the Julius B. Richmond Award, the highest honor given by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).
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Arts & Culture
Remembering with the Memorial Church at 75
When the 11th hour struck on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the four-year nightmare of World War I — “The Great War” — officially ended. The world awoke to find some 22 million dead and a like number physically wounded. Never before had any generation witnessed such concentrated death and destruction.…
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Arts & Culture
The hunger for live theater
Harvard President Drew Faust was about to cut the giant ribbon stretched across the stage of the New College Theatre when a shrill voice called out from the back of the audience:
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
October 1836 — In the “North American Review,” Henry Russell Cleveland, Class of 1827, aims a verbal wrecking ball at Harvard’s buildings:
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 22. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Campus & Community
In brief
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston will host their annual celebration of the traditional Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Mexican holiday on Nov. 2. In commemoration of its 100th Lilac Sunday event (set for May 11, 2008), the Arnold Arboretum is now accepting…
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Visiting scientist Frederick “Skip” Burkle, a senior fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), was recently elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM). New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd will deliver the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics Thursday (Oct. 25) at 6 p.m. in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the…
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Arts & Culture
Medieval renaissance
Medieval history comes to lyrical life at Harvard as musicians perform an 800-year-old Ambrosian liturgical chant recently indetified in Harvard’s Houghton Library.
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Arts & Culture
Humanities Center to welcome postdoctoral fellows
The Humanities Center at Harvard recently announced the inauguration of a postdoctoral fellowship program. The first class of fellows, who will be in residence for the 2008-09 year, includes two American and two German scholars.
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Science & Tech
Redheaded strangers
Ancient DNA retrieved from the bones of two Neanderthals suggests that at least some of them had red hair and pale skin, scientists report this week in the journal Science.…
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Health
It took a novel tack to discover an obesity gene
The racing sailboat was small, and Christoph Lange wanted to be sure he didn’t capsize and plunge into the Charles River again, as he’d done half a dozen times that…
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Health
Massive microRNA scan uncovers leads to treating muscle degeneration
Researchers have discovered the first microRNAs–tiny bits of code that regulate gene activity–linked to each of 10 major degenerative muscular disorders, opening doors to new treatments and a better biological…
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Health
Eating whole-grain cereals may help men lower heart failure risk
Men who consume a higher amount of whole grain breakfast cereals may have a reduced risk of heart failure, according to a report by Harvard researchers published in the October…
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Health
Media can’t separate stem cell science from politics
Stem cells, politics, “fairness,” and what one participant termed “the disintegration of traditional journalism,” were all on the bill at Thursday night’s Public Forum titled “Stem Cells and the Media,”…
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Arts & Culture
Harvard Foundation honors Andy Garcia
Acclaimed actor, producer, and director Andy Garcia was honored by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations on a recent (Oct. 16) visit to the University. The special invited guest was recognized for his work with at-risk youth and people with cancer. Garcia is the director of the feature film “The Lost City,” in…
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Arts & Culture
Redford and company visit HFA
Legendary film star and patron of the arts Robert Redford came to the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last week (Oct. 11) for a sneak preview of “Lions for Lambs,” which Redford directed and which stars Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise. Redford was joined at the HFA by fellow cast members Michael Pena and Andrew Garfield,…
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Arts & Culture
Memorabilia in NCT tell dramatic story
The New College Theatre has yet to see its first performance, but already the building seems to echo with audience laughter and the pleasant dissonance of a tuning orchestra. In the lobby, one can almost hear a whisper of “break a leg” or the clink of glasses at a postproduction fête rising faintly from the…
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Police reports Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 22. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Campus & Community
In brief
The Crimson Toastmasters Club, a local chapter of Toastmasters International, the public speaking and leadership organization, will welcome T Chendil Kumar to its Oct. 24 meeting. The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics is now accepting applications from graduate students for its 2008-09 fellowship in ethics. Tickets for this season’s Christmas Revels will go…
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Campus & Community
Reception closes festivities
The final event in the inauguration of President Drew Faust took place on Friday (Oct. 12) at Loeb House and its surrounding grounds under two large tents. Cool air did…
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Katherine Swartz, professor of health policy and economics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), has been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Swanee Hunt, founding director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the School, was inducted…
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Campus & Community
President’s office hours 2007-08
President Drew Faust will hold office hours for students and staff in her Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:
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Campus & Community
Vibrant robing, moist procession lead to inaugural stage
A half-hour before the procession stepped off, faculty, delegates of other institutions, and other participants in the installation ceremony gathered in the courtyard between Boylston Hall, Memorial Church, and Weld…
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Campus & Community
Chandler memorial on Friday
The memorial service for Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus, will be Friday (Oct. 19). The memorial service for Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus, will be Friday (Oct. 19). The service will be held at Memorial Church at 2:30 p.m. with a reception to…
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Campus & Community
The evening ends on a sweet note
When saxophonist Joshua Redman ’91 played “The Best Is Yet to Come” as one of his closing numbers, the Harvard alumnus joked that the best may indeed be yet to…
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Campus & Community
Hay, HMS embryologist, dies at 80
Elizabeth Dexter Hay, embryologist and educator at Harvard Medical School (HMS), died this past Aug. 20. She was 80 years old.