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At a time when the United States is in the midst of war with a country that has turned out to be more powerful than expected, foreign correspondent Chris Hedges has some words about the power of war itself. The New York Times journalist recently reflected on the destructive aspects of war that he has…

In a nondescript classroom above Somervilles Union Square, 10 teenagers are flipping through photographs they took.

At the Graduate School of Educations seventh annual authors party in Gutman Library Monday (March 31), research associate Peter Gibbon (right) browses the 31 books published this year by GSE faculty and staff. Gibbons own A Call to Heroism: Renewing Americas Vision of Greatness joins books by senior lecturer on education Katherine K. Merseth, Henry…

Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) has announced the approval of the new rent schedule for approximately 2,500 Harvard-owned apartments rented by graduate students and other University affiliates. The new rents…

After reviewing applications from around the world, the inaugural 2003 Roy Family Award will be presented to the Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project in Bolivia. The project partners are American Electric Power (AEP), the oil and gas company BP, the Government of Bolivia, Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN), PacifiCorp, and The Nature Conservancy.

While it may lack the poetry of reading, writing, rithmetic or the hot-button relevance of high-stakes testing and school reform, Scaling Up Success – the subject of a conference March 20 and 21 at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) – is, its organizers say, a central conundrum of contemporary education.

Caroline Elam, currently the Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Studies for the Visual Arts at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., has been named the I Tatti Mongan Prize winner. The I Tatti Mongan Prize is given to a scholar of Italian Renaissance art, French art, drawings, and connoisseurship.

In a survey of attitudes toward risks for children, respondents cite drugs and sexual abuse among the top 10. Theyre not.

This past weeks spring break provided little in the way of rest or relaxation for the Harvard mens and womens hockey teams. In fact, given the Crimsons recent string of heartbreakers in high-stakes tournament play, it seems that both squads – and their fans – have been treated to some rather cruel and unusual punishment…

To the stars through difficulties – the state motto of Kansas – took on some real meaning for the Kansas State womens basketball team this past Friday (March 22) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Up by 19 points in the second half, the No. 3 Wildcats were forced to hold off a…

A renowned gathering of women poets, including Pulitzer Prize winners, Emerging Artist honorees, and state poets laureate, will gather on April 12 to celebrate the spoken word and their common bond as fellows-in-residence at Radcliffe.

Be Bright – Use a Light is the new message that representatives of the Cambridge Bicycle Committee and the Cambridge Police Departments (CPDs) Bike Patrol want to deliver to area cyclists. Since nearly half of all cycling deaths occur at night without lights – even with only 3 percent of bike riding occurring after dark…

In the song, they paved paradise, put up a parking lot.

Charles Langmuir sailed to the top of the world to study the bottom of the ocean.

April 1910 – The Andover-Harvard Theological Library formally comes into existence. Owen S. Gates, former Librarian of the Andover Theological Seminary, becomes the first librarian of the combined collections.  April…

The W.E.B. Du Bois Institutes Black Writers Reading series continues online with a new Webcast of Elizabeth Alexander and Suzan-Lori Parks. View the latest entry at http://streams.wgbh.org/forum/forum.php?organization=Harvard+%2F+Du+Bois+Institute. For more information, or to access the latest entry, visit http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~du_bois/.

Harvard has bid $75 million to purchase 91 acres of Massachusetts Turnpike Authority land located south of Cambridge Street in Allston. Harvards bid has been referred to the MTA Board, which will vote to select the highest responsible bidder no later than (Friday) April 4. Harvard sees the purchase as a long-term investment and expects…

What would Ralph Waldo Emerson say about the events planned to commemorate his 200th birthday?

What would Ralph Waldo Emerson say about the events planned to commemorate his 200th birthday?

For the first time, a total of more than 20,000 students applied for undergraduate admission, making the Class of 2007 the most competitive in Harvards history. The 2,056 admitted students were selected from a pool of 20,986, an admission rate of 9.8 percent. Students were notified by letter and e-mail on Wednesday (April 2).

More intrepid than Sir Ernest Shackleton and his Endurance team … staring down icebergs with the swagger and bravado of the Titanic … its the Harvard crew coaches and their effort to free the Charles River from its icy winter stillness.

Controversial Danish writer Bjorn Lomborg was challenged by a U.S. environmental leader in a spirited debate over the global environment held in the Kennedy Schools Forum Thursday night (March 13). Lomborg, whose book The Skeptical Environmentalist has been condemned by some in the scientific community, argued that the world is not faced with imminent deterioration…

To some, engaged Buddhism may seem like a contradiction in terms. Traditionally, Buddhists have sought to avoid suffering by disengaging from desire, training themselves through meditation to look past the world of illusion to the spiritual reality beneath.

A 10-kiloton nuclear bomb exploding at New Yorks Grand Central Station is a prospect that is all-too real today and one that would kill 500,000 people and cause an estimated $1 trillion in economic damage, according to a new report from Harvards Project on Managing the Atom.

Amidst a four-game non-losing streak (three wins and one tie since Feb. 21), the Harvard mens hockey team (21-8-2) picked up two of its biggest victories of the season this past weekend with a two-game sweep of Vermont in the best-of-three ECAC quarterfinals. With the wins, a 4-2 decision on Friday (March 14) and a…

Nearly a century ago, bicycle racing was the most popular spectator sport in the nation. Velodromes were as common as shopping malls, early 20th century writers penned rabid reviews of bike races, and in 1903, “across the pond,” a handful of anxious race promoters waited to see if their race – named simply the “Tour…

Online Du Bois series adds Dove, Wideman The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute’s Black Writers Reading series continues online with a new Webcast of Rita Dove and John Wideman. View the…