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Five years ago, Jennifer Shultis was a competitive equestrienne who rarely ran, had never mountain biked, and had what she calls a normal fear of heights.

Bakang Komunyane (from left), Rangarirai Miambo, Saritha Komatireddy, Monica Soni, and Aimee Miller practice a dance routine in preparation for Changing the Tide, a performance to raise funds for areas devastated by the recent tsunami in South Asia. The event takes place Saturday (Feb. 19), at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. For tickets, call the…

A one-time South Korean prisoner of conscience cautioned against using human rights as a political weapon against North Korea Thursday (Feb. 10) despite new details of horrific conditions in the communist nations political detention system.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 15. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Yes! Hasty Puddings 2005 Man of the Year, the delightful and affable Tim Robbins, will be at the Hasty Pudding Theatre tonight to enjoy the opening of Terms of Frontierment. There will be a champagne reception for Robbins at 7 p.m., followed by a roast of and then presentation of the Pudding Pot to the…

February 1950 – A capacity Sanders Theatre crowd hears Eleanor Roosevelt discuss “The World Struggle for Human Rights,” as guest of Harvard’s United Nations Council. She urges the U.S. to…

Asked during her press conference if her husband Michael Douglas, Hasty Pudding Man of the Year 1992, had given her any advice about how to comport herself during her own ceremonial ordeal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, the 2005 Woman of the Year, replied: Whatever they do, just give it right back to them, honey.

Some years ago, a student who had graduated with excellent grades from one of the traditional black colleges applied for admission to Harvard Medical School (HMS). Alvin Poussaint, faculty associate dean of student affairs, urged the admissions committee to accept him, but many were skeptical.

The choir loft, or cantoria, in the Sistine Chapel is a smallish, 8-foot-by-12-foot nook carved into the stone of the chapel wall and dimly illuminated through its original colored glass window. For the first three and a half centuries of the chapels history (it was built in the 1470s), only singers were allowed to enter…

For Charles Busch, author of The Tale of the Allergists Wife, the dark side of having a play on Broadway was that people would come up to him and ask how it felt to finally become mainstream.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences December 14, 2004, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

At a meeting of the Committee of Memorial Minutes of the Faculty of Medicine Dec. 16, 2004, the following Minute was selected.

Despite – and because of – their very different approaches, policy-makers and education specialists from UNESCO, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) convened on Saturday (Feb. 5) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) to discuss how to facilitate better interagency cooperation. They…

Grover, the furry blue monster of Sesame Street fame, held a press conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Tuesday (Feb. 8) to announce the Harvard School of Grover, a new school of all the major majors, including not only law, medicine, and business but also hotel and restaurant management and air conditioning…

Using a new computer model of galaxy formation, researchers have shown that growing black holes release a blast of energy that fundamentally regulates galaxy evolution and black hole growth itself. The model explains for the first time observed phenomena, and promises to deliver deeper insights into our understanding of galaxy formation and the role of…

Indias ambassador to the United States hailed a growing partnership between the two nations Tuesday (Feb. 8), saying the diversity of their populations and strength of their democracies align the two countries interests.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who excited the ire of many with his decision to marry gay couples contrary to state law, told an audience at the Kennedy School Forum Tuesday night (Feb. 8) that he remains committed to marriage equality.

The Executive Committee for Harvards Library Digital Initiative (LDI) has scheduled two University-wide calls for grant proposals for digitization projects in direct support of teaching and research through the LDI Internal Challenge Grant Program.

Harvards Joint Center for Housing Studies and the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp. are offering a competitive summer fellowship opportunity for forward-thinking Harvard students in law, business, planning, and public administration/policy. Blending academics and field experience, the 2005 Emerging Leaders in Community and Economic Development Fellowship program is open to University students in the fields of study…

Biorn Maybury-Lewis made his first trip to Latin America when he was only an infant. Brazilian Air Force pilots left him and his anthropologist parents in the middle of the central highlands of Brazils vast interior, quickly taking off in their small aircraft before the local Brazilian indigenous people – the Shavante – showed up.…

Proposed 2005-2006 rents for new affiliated residents who sign leases as of July 1, 2005:

Women pucksters burn Huskies, 9-1, in Beanpot semis The No. 5 Harvard women’s hockey team avenged their male counterparts’ recent OT loss against Northeastern with a 9-1 blowout of the…

For the Harvard University men’s hockey team, this past Monday’s (Feb. 7) 81-minute-double-overtime-marathon-on-ice against Northeastern ended awfully abruptly. With the game tied at 1, just minutes into the second extra-frame,…

IOP funding for thesis research The Institute of Politics (IOP) is offering awards to Harvard undergraduates for summer research and fieldwork relating directly to a senior thesis or a comparable…