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The sports world is an unusual arena where cultural heroes are born, where the bonds between teammates are strongly forged and, often, where gay athletes face their biggest challenge, according to panelists discussing the subject Sunday.

Four new area codes are being added in eastern Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy has mandated that they be added to existing calling areas. This change requires that all local calls in eastern Massachusetts must be dialed using 10 digits. This change does not apply to the Universitys Centrex numbers.

New Jerseys Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, Al Gores campaign manager, and the former governor of Puerto Rico are among the distinguished public servants who have been chosen for fellowships at the Institute of Politics (IOP) this spring.

United by their differences, a group of Bosnian women from the torn nations various ethnic groups spent last week at Harvard, talking about their pasts, sharing their visions of the future, and building coalitions to make that future happen.

John G. Ruggie, assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, will join Harvards John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) as the Evron and Jeanne Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced.

Thomas J. Healey, advisory director at Goldman, Sachs &amp Co., will move from the New York boardroom to a Cambridge classroom as he prepares to share what hes learned with students at the Center for Business and Government (CBG) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG).

It’s my absolute favorite thing to do in the world. When you’re singing with good technique, it’s an entirely engrossing experience. The sound fills your chest, your head, your ears. You can feel the paper vibrating in your hand. You can even feel the wood of the pews vibrating.

Near a river in Guodian, China, not far from a farmhouse made of earth and thatched with straw, Chinese archaeologists in 1993 discovered a tomb dating back to the fourth century B.C.

Michael Rodman, a 1999 graduate of the Kennedy School of Government, has been named the news officer at Harvard Law School (HLS). Rodman – who assumed his new role earlier this month – will be the schools primary media contact and a key member of the communications staff.

The challenge of collecting sports memorabilia at Harvard, says the Hall of Athletic History volunteer curator Warren Renny Little 55, is that all the equipment is signed in and signed out, so no one ever thinks about keeping it. For Little – a Harvard athletics devotee since his track days – the task of assembling…

Minh-Chau Le has no recollection of the war. Born long after Saigon fell to the Communists in 1975, the 21-year-old Harvard seniors impressions of Vietnam are more contemporary – bustling open-air marketplaces, floating bridges, and fertile farmlands. To Le, Vietnam is a place not of bombs and destruction, but of opportunity.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 17. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

At its 10th meeting of the year, the Council reviewed the Feb.13 Meeting of the Faculty, and the agenda for the March 13 Meeting. The Council also continued its discussion…

Historian Karen Armstrong to deliver Tillich Lecture Karen Armstrong, a distinguished historian and interpreter of religion, will deliver the Paul Tillich Lecture, titled “The Search for the Sacred,” on Tuesday,…

Every morning Paul Horowitz checks his e-mail to see if he has any messages from E.T.

Harvard announced today a major increase in its annual scholarship program for undergraduates. The new plan underscores Harvards dual commitment to need-blind admissions and need-based aid, and reduces the amount that students are expected to contribute to their education. Students will now face less debt on graduation, and they will have more time to concentrate…

Facing the challenges of tomorrow Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences prevPage 2next The Faculty At a time when we are aiming to increase the…

Facing the challenges of tomorrow: Dean Jeremy R. Knowles cites space, how to apply resources, as key issues January 24, 2001 Dear Colleagues: As I begin this year’s report on…

Flashing an infectious grin and displaying a gracious humility, 25-year-old actress Drew Barrymore charmed her Harvard hosts on Thursday, Feb. 8, during festivities honoring her as Hasty Puddings 51st Woman of the Year.

When it comes to the Beanpot, winning games in overtime has become something of a tradition for the Crimson womens hockey team. And its junior standout Jennifer Botterill who has proved to be the teams resident stickler for tradition.

To create a sanctuary to honor an entire, complex culture – one rich in history and language and lore – that flourished for thousands of years on this continent before being virtually annihilated in just a few decades: that is the challenge for W. Richard West, founding director of the National Museum of the American…

Ann Marie Cody 03 has long been reaching for the stars. As a high school student in Harvard, Mass., Cody was intrigued by the evidence detected by astrophysicists in 1995 that at least 30 Jupiter- and Saturn-like gaseous planets are orbiting distant stars. Not only have these discoveries provided spectacular confirmation that our solar system…

Internationally renowned pianist Eugen Indjic 69 was a recent visiting artist with the Office for the Arts Learning from Performers series. Above, Indjic talks to performer Berenika Zakrzewski 04 at the Dunster House Library.

The annual Walter Channing Cabot Fellowships have been conferred on four members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The recipients are: Mario Davidovsky, Fanny P. Mason Professor of Music Peter Galison, Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics Katharine Park, Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the…

“This is something!” Don Share proclaims, rising out of his seat and bustling over to the shelves by his desk. He picks up a can – it looks like a…

By any account, the 19th century cholera epidemics were horrible. Rumor and ignorance fed fear of a disease that could strike in the afternoon and kill by bedtime. In Charles Rosenbergs eyes, though, the epidemics are also a lens through which to view American society.

Subramaniam Ramakrishnan, senior associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), died Feb. 7. Ramakrishnans relationship with the University started in 1975, when he was awarded a fellowship at the Kennedy School. From 1982 to 1999, he worked as a senior associate at HIID. Ramakrishnan had directed and taught in HIID workshops for government…