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Elizabeth Spelke was surprised to discover how much infants know about whats going on around them. The newly tenured professor of psychology was just as surprised by their limits. In some situations, counting, for example, babies act more like monkeys, rats, or pigeons than humans.

Professor Don C. Wiley, John O. Loeb Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, has been reported missing by the Memphis, Tenn., police since Nov. 16. Wiley, in Memphis attending a board meeting of the St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital, was last seen the evening of Nov. 15. His car was discovered the morning of Nov. 16,…

Edmund Spevack, a former Harvard lecturer on history and literature, passed away in his native Muenster, Germany, on July 2, 2001, after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 38.

On Nov. 16, the Widener Library Periodicals Reading Room opened in its new location on the first floor of the library. The room features comfortable seating, HOLLIS terminals, onsite staff, and a selection of the more heavily consulted periodicals and newspapers. Wideners current, unbound journal collection will be housed in the adjacent stacks for easy…

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates: Nov. 29 Dec. 13 Feb. 1,…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 24. The official log is located at 29 Garden St.

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A festive mood and spirited audience welcomed former U.S. President Bill Clinton to Gordon Track on Monday (Nov. 19), providing a counterpoint to the serious issues of globalization and terrorism that he addressed in his 45-minute speech.

The sound check went on, sounding like a monastic chant as it echoed off Gordon Track and Tennis Center’s high metal ceiling. Ignoring the droned 1, 2, 3, 4’s, 24 Harvard undergraduates rested on newly-erected risers Sunday (Nov. 18) as they gobbled pizza and prepared for the next phase of the operation.

Former U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton spoke of the interaction among religion, public service, and globalization on Monday (Nov. 19) to a crowd of more than 5,600 in Harvard University’s Albert H. Gordon Track and Tennis Center.

The role of the United States on the world stage remained the top concern of students who met with President Clinton at the ARCO Forum immediately following his address at the Gordon Track & Tennis Center Monday afternoon.

Faced with greater responsibilities in the aftermath of Sept. 11, four mayors from big cities around the country spoke in the ARCO Forum about local leadership during times of global crisis . The event was part of a three-day training program (beginning Nov. 14) for new mayors that has taken place every other year at…

Nov. 15: Piano Society master class, John OConnor, pianist, Kirkland House Junior Common Room, 3 p.m.

The Harvard University Choir has announced the appointment of the first class of 10 Choral Fellows for the 2001-02 academic year. The program, which took eight years to develop, is unique to the American university system and marks the latest development in the long tradition of choral music at Harvard.

Harvard is singing. And playing. And rehearsing. Every corner of every building that can be pressed into service hums with melody. Even Jack Megan, the new head of the Office for the Arts, discovered he has to share his Common Room with Tom Everetts Jazz Band practices once a week.

Eight new fellows have been selected for the 2001-02 Administrative Fellowship Program. Of the eight fellows, five are visiting fellows and three are resident fellows. Visiting fellows are professionals drawn from business, education, and other fields outside the University, while resident fellows are minority professionals currently working at Harvard who are identified by their department…

More than 70 original prints from the Harvard Theatre Collections Hoyningen-Huene archive are on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) exhibition The Look: Images of Glamour and Style, Photographs by Horst and Hoyningen-Huene. As chief photographers at Vogue, Horst and Hoyningen-Huenes elegant style heavily influenced fashion photography of the mid-20th century. This exhibition…

Two films produced and directed by independent filmmaker Barbara Hammer, a 2001-02 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will be shown at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square Nov. 16 – 18. The film series, which will mark the Boston premiere of History Lessons, is co-sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute and the Brattle.

Harvard Law School unveiled a portrait of U.S. District Judge Deborah A. Batts, the first and only openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual member of the federal judiciary, on Saturday, Oct. 27. Batts, a 1972 graduate of Harvard Law School and 1969 graduate of Radcliffe, was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District…

School of Public Health researchers will be taking the countrys temperature on bioterror in the coming weeks in an effort to track what Americans so far have taken pretty much in stride, according to the first survey published last week (Nov. 8).

The Harvard Box Office did a brisk business this week in free tickets to President Bill Clintons address at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center Monday, Nov. 19. On Tuesday (Nov. 13), the first day the tickets were available to Harvard students, faculty, and staff, a line snaked through the Holyoke Center lobby and out…

Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) announced last month that the hospitals Department of Dermatology has been awarded a Skin Cancer Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the University of Penn – one of the best defensive teams in the nation – must have been absolutely smitten with…