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  • Campus & Community

    In brief

    Free flu shots available University Health Services (UHS) will be providing free flu vaccines to members of the Harvard community beginning in November. The walk-in clinics are being held at…

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    Nature/nurture debate considers violent ment

    Subjects ranged from warrior berserkers to Jessica Lynch as students, faculty, and staff at the John F. Kennedy School of Government engaged in a wide-ranging discussion of masculinity, femininity, and warfare Thursday (Nov. 13) in a lunchtime talk with the author of a new book on the subject.

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    Moseley Braun takes aim at Bush

    This is the fifth in a series of interviews with Democractic presidential candidates.

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    The first Australians

    In many ways, Australia and the United States seem mirror images of one another.

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    The Big Picture

    Jon Woodward was born in Wichita, Kan., where Wyatt Earp was once marshal. The Woodwards werent outlaws. They were more like the families for whose benefit men like Earp had tamed the West. Woodwards father was the principal of a Lutheran elementary school. His mother worked there as a teacher until she dropped out to…

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    President Summers opens office to students, staff Dec. 1

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

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    Signs point to …

    First-year Riya Sen studies for her government class in her dorm room while listening to music and looking out at bustling Massachusetts Avenue.

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    This month in Harvard history

    Nov. 21, 1953 – In Yales Woolsey Hall on the morning of the Harvard-Yale football game, Yale confers an honorary Doctor of Laws degree upon recently installed Harvard President Nathan Marsh Pusey 28, AM 32, PhD 37. Not in his fondest dreams, [Pusey] said – with a solemnity which brought a smile to the faces…

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    Falls the shadow

    A shadow of a tree cast by the late afternoon, mid-November sun has the ominous looking limbs of some strange arboreal creature.

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    Changing behavior: Easier than we thought?

    At a Harvard-convened social science research conference on Nov. 14, 2003, research from the fields of economics, social psychology, and public health showed how psychological changes could affect sexual health,…

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    New stage of memory found

    It’s been known for a while that sleep helps consolidate certain memories; that’s probably a major purpose of sleep. But the latest experiments by Harvard Medical School researchers show that…

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    Memorial Minute: David Riesman, author of ‘The Lonely Crowd’

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 21, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

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    Jerusalem during the reign of King Hezekiah

    Youve read The Book. Now see the exhibition.

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    Harvard University Mail Services delivers

    A quarter of the mail delivered to Cambridges 02138 ZIP code is Harvard-bound. And of that, 77 percent goes through Harvard University Mail Services (HUMS), where a relatively lean operation of staff and students shepherds it to its final destinations.

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    Newsmakers

    MHS honors Chandler with Kennedy Medal Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the Isidor Strauss Professor of Business History Emeritus at Harvard Business School, has received the John F. Kennedy Medal from…

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    Obituary: William Wayne Montgomery

    The professions of medicine, otolaryngology, and head and neck surgery have lost a giant in the passing of William Wayne Montgomery, said Joseph B. Nadol Jr., Walter Augustus Lecompte Professor of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School (HMS).

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    Economist details North Korean plight

    North Koreas long-running food shortage is a crisis of the nations own making that is hitting nonelite city residents hard and, without a leadership change, shows no sign of stopping.

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    Dawkins to deliver Tanner Lectures

    Speaking by phone from his office at Oxford University, biologist Richard Dawkins politely declined to talk in detail about his upcoming lecture series at Harvard, The Science of Religion and the Religion of Science.

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    Zwick ’74 premieres ‘Samurai in Cambridge

    For filmmaker Ed Zwick 74, the premiere of his forthcoming film The Last Samurai at the Harvard Square Theater Sunday night (Nov. 9) completed a circle he began more than 30 years ago.

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    Recycling can be greatly improved

    Drink up, Harvard.

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    Energy-saving programs ask Harvard to go ‘cold turkey’

    The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvards Longwood campus are squaring off in an energy-saving duel that asks faculty, staff, and graduate students to Go Cold Turkey over Thanksgiving weekend.

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    In brief

    New Nieman wing to honor Knight Foundation The newly added wing to the Walter Lippmann House – home of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard – will be named in honor…

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    Yale snubs v-ball, 3-1

    A school-record 35 digs by co-captain Allison Bendush 04 wasnt enough to lift the Harvard womens volleyball team past visiting Yale on Saturday (Nov. 8), as the Crimson dropped its final home match of the season, 3-1. The loss, which fell on the heels of Harvards 3-0 sweep of Brown on Nov. 7, ends a…

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    The Big Picture

    When Veronica Fullard performed at her first Renaissance festival, she hid behind a camera snapping publicity photos (in character, of course, with an innovative back story to explain her portrait-taking device) to minimize her interaction with patrons. I used to be the most horribly shy person I knew, says Fullard, who is a staff assistant…

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    Bending notes

    Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music and Harvard College Professor Thomas Kelly strolls to work and is caught in the reflection of a car window.

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    Research on ESL children has surprising results

    For an increasing number of children whose first language is not English, learning to read – arguably one of schools most important and most difficult lessons – can be an especially high hurdle.

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    Local shelter works to stop abuse before it starts

    When Elsbeth Kalenderian, executive director of the Cambridge-based nonprofit Transition House, heard Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers speak about Harvards recent donation of a microscopy unit to Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, she sprung into action. Theres a link, she told him, between academic achievement and the dating violence her organization was fighting to prevent.

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    President Summers opens office to students, staff Dec. 1

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

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Nov. 8. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

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    This month in Harvard history

    November 1942 – A Harvard Alumni Association advertisement for the well-known Harvard chair (black with gold trim and mahogany-colored arms; weight: 28 pounds; advertised price: $13.50) yields the following historical…