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The number of applicants for Early Action admission to Harvard College has risen 24 percent above last year’s record 6,128 to a total of 7,615. The academic quality of the pool is impressive. For example, 64 percent of the applicants average 1,400 or more on the combined SAT verbal and math test.

Harvard is dishing up another helping of community service with its annual Pie in the Sky effort. On Sunday (Nov. 24), more than 50 staff members and their families from Dining Services and the Office of Human Resources (OHR) will bake and box 1,750 pies. The massive volunteer effort supports Community Servings, which sells the…

The coming expansion of the European Union to include 10 Eastern and Central European countries will fulfill an age-old dream of European unification and add vitality and energy to the organization, the ambassadors of four candidate nations said last week.

Thalidomide, DES (stilbsestrol), the Dalkon shield, hormone replacement therapy. The names of these high-profile medical blunders were enough to make the point. ABC News analyst Cokie Roberts in a few seconds captured a central factor in the erosion of trust in the health care system.

In a recent, lively discussion in the Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall, three professors from Yale, Brown, and Columbia universities described how their schools educate their undergraduates. Their philosophies of education ran the gamut, representing different worldviews on what a college education is all about.

For a discussion on labor negotiations, this past Fridays (Nov. 15) forum at Langdell Hall on Major League Baseballs (MLB) latest round of collective bargaining was as cordial as they come. So cordial, in fact, that panelist Andrew Zimbalist, a leading sports economist at Smith College and author of Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look…

His Olympic dream began decades ago, at the knee of his dad, watching the Olympics together on television. It might have been 1988, or 1992, Harvard junior Jesse Jantzen isnt sure. What he is sure of is that even at age 6, when the 1988 games occurred, he had already been wrestling in tournaments for…

As a student at Harvard Law School (HLS), Earl Martin Phalen did much of his learning and career building in elementary school.

Before the Harvard-Yale game this Saturday (Nov. 23), the Arthur M. Sackler Museum invites families to attend its final Sackler Saturday event of the fall: Ancient Entertainment: Music, Games, and Dance in Art. Children can listen to ancient Chinese bells, see Indian dancers, play games that the ancient Greeks and Romans once enjoyed, and take…

From the failed promise of flying vehicles to the very real presence of virtual tours on the Internet, Harvard administrators, faculty, and information technology professionals examined the impact of technology on Harvards digital identity at a Harvard Law School conference last week.

An explosive third quarter lifted the Harvard football team past Yale on Saturday afternoon (Nov. 23), to hand the Crimson a 20-13 Harvard Stadium victory in the 119th playing of

I underwent radiation treatment for prostate cancer in 1996, so I was startled to come across a recent report that predicts who among men like myself would still be alive after 10 years.

Standing in front of the row of homes on Hano Street in Allston where she has lived since 1966, Minnie Walcott paused for a moment as her voice thickened with tears. ‘I raised three daughters here, and now my grandchildren come back to visit me,’ she told the crowd assembled to celebrate the recent renovation…

Corn, butterflies, and the media were center stage at the John F. Kennedy School of Government on Nov. 21 at a conference that examined the media’s role in keeping the public informed – or frightened – about the growing presence of biotechnology in food production.

They dont do the duckwalk like Chuck Berry or the moonwalk like Michael Jackson. They dont strut around the stage like Mick Jagger. They dont play guitar with their tongues like Jimi Hendrix, and they dont smash their instruments like The Who. What kind of musicians are they?

The toilet runs, theres graffiti on the windows, and a former resident left behind some belongings.

At a modest Victorian home on the Somerville-Cambridge border, Harvard graduate student Kermit Cole is cooking a spinach frittata for dinner.

Women from the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations recently joined the women of Latinas Unidas, the Association of Black Harvard Women, and the South Asian Womens Collective in sponsoring the Road to Success, a panel discussion on the career paths of successful minority women. Saru Jayarama (from left), executive director of the Restaurant…

Is there a moral distinction between procedures carried out daily at fertility clinics across the nation and the cloning of human embryos for research purposes? Michael Sandel does not think so.

Every evening this past summer, after returning from her job at the Baltimore City Health Department, Laura Perry 04 read and re-read Shakespeares play The Merchant of Venice. When she was not doing that, she was either reading criticism about the play or developing her own ideas about what it means and how it should…

Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have found that adults who have tonsillectomies to treat their chronic, recurring tonsillitis take fewer sick days and less medication than those who opt to leave their tonsils in and repeatedly treat the condition with antibiotics.

As the music swelled, dozens of dancers arched and twisted, contracted and spiraled their arms raised heavenward, feet planted in a wide, earthy stance.

Despite the gusty winds and driving rain of a seasonal Noreaster, 21 young people with disabilities recently made their way from all over Massachusetts to the Charles Hotel to attend the Youth Leadership Forum (YLF), where they served as delegates. The Nov. 16 event was sponsored by the Office of the University Disability Coordinator, Office…

Harvards mens and womens hockey programs received dual honors last week when seniors Dominic Moore and Jennifer Botterill were each named ECAC Player of the Week. Team captain Moore tallied a pair of goals for the Crimson (4-1,1-1 Ivy) in a 5-2 win over Dartmouth on Nov. 8. He recorded his 100th career point in…

Penn staked its claim to the Ivy League football championship, defeating Harvard, 44-9, at Franklin Field this past Saturday (Nov. 16). The victory clinches at least a share of the crown for the Quakers (7-1, 6-0 Ivy), while the Crimson (6-3, 5-1 Ivy) – whose three losses of the season all came at the hands…

A team of researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH), led by Gökhan Hotamisligil of the Department of Nutrition, has identified the gene JNK (c-Jun amino-terminal kinases) as the key component in interfering with insulin sensitivity in the metabolic pathway for obesity, obesity-induced insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes. The discovery identifies a…

Robert R. Barker 36, an investment executive and former Harvard Overseer whose gifts to the University enabled Harvard to create a new humanities center, died on Nov. 8.

To explore the political visions and behavior of African Americans, Professor of Government Michael Dawson looks to history and asks questions about the present. He goes to church and the voting booth, workplaces and the unemployment line.

Friends and colleagues of Janet Viggiani, former assistant dean for coeducation at Harvard College, are invited to attend a memorial service and reception at 3 p.m. on Dec. 8 at Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston. Parking is available at the rear of the building.