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The Ottoman Empire – what was that, an empire based on putting your feet up?

Americas intelligence community stands at a critical crossroads. So says Jack Grierson, the Kennedy Schools CIA officer in residence, who recently retired after 30 years with the agency.

As sales of recorded music drop precipitously, the music industry has pointed a blaming finger at the dramatic growth of file sharing among individuals who search, share, and download music files from each other. Surely if consumers can get their favorite songs for free, the reasoning goes, theyre not making tracks to the nearest record…

National interfaith leader and best-selling author the Rev. Mel White will address the conflict between religious and gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender (GLBT) communities at three events this weekend (April 16-18) at Harvard. White is the founder of SoulForce Inc., an interfaith movement committed to ending spiritual violence against GLBT people.

Defender Belitsos earns league accolades For her recent efforts against the attack, sophomore midfielder Elaine Belitsos of the Harvard women’s lacrosse team was named the Ivy League’s Defensive Player of…

Two music department faculty honored G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music Kay Kaufman Shelemay was elected fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research. The academy represents the oldest organization…

Marking the 50th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision that desegregated Americas schools, Harvard Law School (HLS) turned its attention Tuesday night (April 13) to Justice of the United States Thurgood Marshall, who as legal director for the NAACP successfully argued the Brown case. Yet with a panel of eight HLS…

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 April 10. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Flags adorning the parking lot at O¹Donnell Field, where the Crimson baseballers play, ensure that no visitors think theyre in New Haven.

April 4, 1907 – Nathan Marsh Pusey, Harvard’s future 24th President, is born in Council Bluffs, Iowa. April 15, 1912 – The luxury liner “Titanic” sinks in the North Atlantic.…

At its 11th meeting of the year (April 14) the Faculty Council discussed with Dean of the College Benedict Gross (mathematics) and Professor Jennifer Leaning (faculty of public health) the implementation of the recommendations made last year by the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard (the Leaning Committee). Dean Julia Fox (Harvard College) and…

Kofi Annan, the secretary-general of the United Nations and 2001 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, will be Harvards 2004 Commencement speaker at the Afternoon Exercises on June 10.

Rakesh Jain looks at tumors from an engineers perspective. The view he gets has led to some startling results.

Vicki Norberg-Bohm, a pioneer in the study of technology innovation, died March 21 at the age of 48 after a courageous fight with cancer.

The Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at Western Kentucky University (WKU) has named Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, the recipient of the 2003 Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism. Buell will receive the award for Emerson (2003, Belknap Press), an assessment of Ralph Waldo Emersons works, at…

Funds and fellows will be made available to Harvard faculty in an effort to spark wide-ranging implementation of the powerful array of educational technology pioneered at the University in recent years, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven E. Hyman announced.

Tuesdays mean a full house in Pat Goffredos second-grade classroom at the Amigos School in Cambridge. I rarely have any absences on Tuesday, says Goffredo. Even if they have dentists appointments, they make it in.

From physicians and therapists to Reiki practitioners and spirit singers, a wide range of religious and medical professionals shared their projects and findings from the 18-month Women Healing Women project at Harvard Divinity School in March. Sponsored by the Religion, Health and Healing Initiative of the Center for the Study of World Religions, Women Healing…

Now that the franc, the mark, and the lira have followed the ducat, the doubloon, and the Louis dOr into numismatic superannuation, economists have been watching with great interest to see how well the successor to these national currencies – the euro – has been doing at replacing the monetary systems of a dozen linguistically…

Whats smaller than a microbrewery but bigger than a cauldron of homebrew stinking up the kitchen?

This sweet row of Dutch spring tulips seems to have sprung spontaneously out of the cold New England stone fronting the Holyoke Center Arcade. (Staff photo Jon Chase/Harvard News Office)

Fakes. Phonies. Forgeries. Institutions are careful not to acquire them – as a rule. But this month, as it has done for five years, the Fogg Art Museum makes an exception to show some Fabulous Fakes and Poignant Poetry, the work of art teacher Deb Whitmores fifth-grade students at Captain Samuel Brown School in Peabody.…

Fitting in and looking as if it belonged was never the point. Otherwise, it would have been made of red brick, not slabs of barefaced concrete. It would have shuffled its interior spaces into neat stacks so people would know where they were and where they were going instead of feeling a sense of perpetual…

Doing things solo was never a problem for Alesia Johnson. After all, the Charlestown High senior from Dorchester held down a part-time job at a local bank, paid her own living expenses, and kept up pretty good grades without parental involvement. But when it came to applying to college, the first-generation college-bound senior was stumped.

A recent, highly controversial series of papers published by two researchers at the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen, Peter Gotzsche and Ole Olsen, concluded that mammography does not save lives and instead exposes women to unnecessary diagnostic and surgical procedures.

The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has named mathematical statistician Stuart Baker of the National Cancer Institute the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Alum Award. As the winner, Baker will deliver a lecture at the School this June about his career and life.

You go to China, its dazzling, says Erik Eckholm, one of three contributors to an exhibit of photographs called The Reporters Eye: Images from Chinas Socioeconomic Frontiers. Tall buildings. Cars. Growing fast. But there are also all these casualties and cast-offs. I think its important not to forget them.

A. Bernard Ackerman, a physician and professor who has devoted his career to finding inventive and engaging ways of teaching, is creating a new endowment at Harvard for the study of culture and medicine. The A. Bernard Ackerman Endowment for the Culture of Medicine will establish a professorship and support a wide range of activities…

A Kennedy School expert on democracy and leadership in the developing world is assisting a new African effort to improve leadership on the continent by training young leaders and drawing inspiration from current and former best practices and success stories.