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The days just before Thanksgiving are reportedly the heaviest travel time of the year as millions of Americans board airliners to join distant family and friends for the holiday.

Margaret Atwood, the recipient of the 2000 Booker Prize for her novel The Blind Assassin, will speak at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on Monday, Nov. 19, as part of the Deans Lecture Series. Atwood will deliver her talk, How I Became a Writer, at 4 p.m. at the First Church Congregational, 11 Garden…

Primed and prepped all season long, the 7-0 Harvard football team doesnt do downtime. No soon after taming the Columbia Lions (2-5, 2-3 Ivy) 45-33 last Saturday (Nov. 3) in Manhattan, the unbeaten Harvard football team had its sights set on the next (and biggest) test yet, an undefeated Penn team. Saturdays Ivy showdown of…

More than 60 Harvard managers and human resources professionals learned how to hang on to valued employees when author Martha R.A. Fields discussed her book Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them. How to Keep Them last Tuesday (Oct. 30) in the Harvard Information Center. The event, sponsored by the Office of the Assistant to the…

When the student came to University Health Services (UHS), he was afraid that he would never run again. Doctors in his native Italy had told him that he should stop running, a biting disappointment for someone who liked to play soccer.

William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd president of the United States, will deliver an address to Harvard Universitys students, faculty, and staff at 2:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, at the Albert H. Gordon Track and Tennis Center.

We do magic tricks.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates: Nov. 29 Dec. 13 Feb. 1,…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 3. The official log is located at 29 Garden St.

KSG offers book tours on Web The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is offering book tours these days. Using the power of the Web, the school is highlighting recent publications…

Nov. 24, 1873 – Charles Sprague Sargent officially begins a 54-year term as first Director of the Arnold Arboretum (est. 1872). Sargent soon enlists the aid of pioneering landscape architect…

Higginbotham remembered Brandeis University Professor Anita Hill joins Law Professor Charles Ogletree Jr. and others at the Law School on Monday (Nov. 5) to talk about the legacy of A.…

At its fourth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council received a report on the work of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies from the chair of the committee, Professor Lawrence Katz (economics).

Matthew Meselson, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, has been raising his voice in opposition to biological and chemical weapons since 1963. He investigated the largest known outbreak…

Barely two months after Sept. 11, students in Religion 1529 are grilling Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies and director of the Pluralism Project, on religious tolerance, respect, and understanding. A teaching fellow roams Science Center B with a microphone like a talk show hostess, amplifying questions that are as academic as…

Six faculty members from Harvard Medical School (HMS) are among 60 new members recently elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences. With their election, members make a commitment to volunteer on committees engaged in a broad range of health policy issues.

Former Harvard Law School Professor Kathleen Sullivan returns to Cambridge Nov. 7, 8, and 9 to deliver the 2001 Tanner Lectures on Human Values.

What do you need to get your life back?

Ask Elliot Hammerman about his work, and hell show you pictures. Pictures of smiling adults, pictures of himself and his colleagues dressed up in costume, pictures of kids – lots and lots of kids – in hospital johnnies or baseball uniforms or their Sunday best.

Dunns to assume APS executive officer position The American Philosophical Society (APS) has named husband – and – wife team Mary Maples Dunn, most recently the acting dean of the…

For most people, the world of late antiquity can hardly be said to be a subject of pressing and immediate concern, unless of course it happens to be the setting for a film about an indomitable gladiator or the internecine struggles of decadent aristocrats.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates: Nov. 29 Dec. 13 Feb. 1,…

John Douglas, a Southern Californian who grew up swimming, surfing, and playing water polo, gets a special sense of satisfaction from teaching adult beginners to swim.

1. With the acceptance of a full-time appointment in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, an individual makes a commitment to the University that is understood to be full time in the most inclusive sense. Every member is expected to accord the University his or her primary professional loyalty, and to arrange outside obligations, financial…

Bryan Sun is a graduate student with more than one iron in the fire.