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    Nor’easter stops Crimson tide

    The Harvard baseball team wrapped up a four-game series against Yale with a pair of wins this past Saturday (April 14), after splitting a doubleheader a day earlier. The Crimson finished the homestand weekend with three consecutive victories, good for a 3-1 mark.

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    Drinkers less likely to die from heart attacks

    People with heart disease who consume an average of 14 alcoholic drinks a week appear less likely to die from a heart attack than nondrinkers. Low to moderate drinking is also associated with a lower risk of heart failure among older people.

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    Schauer awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

    Frederick Schauer, academic dean and Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School of Government, is among a distinguished group of scholars, scientists, and artists awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

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    Cancer Society holds minority marrow drive

    The Harvard Cancer Society and the Asian American Brotherhood are working with the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) to recruit more minorities for the National Marrow Donor Registry. Each year, more than 30,000 children and adults in the United States are diagnosed with life-threatening blood diseases like leukemia. For many of these patients, a marrow…

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    A letter to the Harvard community from President-elect Lawrence H. Summers

    Harvard University April 2001 Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Let me first thank the many of you who have offered your good wishes as I prepare to take up…

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    Police reports

    The following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, April 14. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29…

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    This month in Harvard history

    April 4, 1945 – At the Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, Calif., the Radcliffe Club of San Francisco performs launching honors for the S.S. Radcliffe Victory, one of several wartime Victory…

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    Women in Business to hold conference

    Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business will hold its second semiannual conference on Thursday, April 26, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Charles Hotel. The organization’s goal is to promote…

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    Anderson Imbert, 90, Victor Thomas Professor of Latin American Literature

    Enrique Anderson Imbert, the Victor Thomas Professor of Latin American Literature at Harvard University from 1965 until his retirement in 1980, died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this past Dec. 6.…

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    Students turn life experience into nonprofit

    Every time Harvard sophomore Sandra Nudelman sees her grandfather, she is thankful for the 19-year-old nursing student whose donated liver saved his life. Her grandfather, Norman Rudow, waited from late…

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    A missing link found to breast cancer

    For 10 years, Alan DAndrea labored to find the cause of one of the rarest diseases on Earth. Called Fanconi anemia, it affects only 500 families out of 280 million people in the United States.

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    Africa AIDS assault will depend on U.S. leadership

    The future of the massive, international anti-AIDS effort outlined by 128 Harvard faculty last week lies squarely in the hands of the Bush administration, which has given the plan a warm reception but which has yet to pledge any funds, according to Center for International Development Director Jeffrey Sachs.

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    ‘When We Liked Ike’

    No other recent decade seems quite as dated as the 1950s. The 60s comes close with its bell-bottoms and tie-dyed T-shirts, psychedelic posters, and ubiquitous peace signs. But many of us still recognize the 60s as the convulsive birth pang or our own self-indulgent, anything-goes era. The decade of the 1950s, however, is a world…

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    Talking diction with Dame Diana

    Some Harvard educators were the ones doing the listening last week when actress Dame Diana Rigg staged a brief demonstration on the proper use of theatrical vocal techniques.

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    Charting familial territory

    You wouldnt think someone could get in trouble for saying that people in the past loved their children or that husbands and wives, at least in some cases, cared about and respected one another.

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    Harvard joins Ivy League partners in community service days

    When it comes to the Ivy League, the competitive atmosphere among the best and the brightest – from the intellectual to the athletic – can be thick at times. Rarely does an opportunity arise in which Ivy League students can cooperate toward a common goal. Yet this spring, more than 3,500 Ivy students will do…

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    Leg up on the competition

    There are some areas where, believe it or not, Harvard is not No. 1.

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    Service to be held for Lord Runcie

    A memorial service for the Right Reverend and Right Honorable Lord Robert Runcie of Cuddesdon will be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 21, in the Memorial Church. The service is open to the public. It will be the only such service offered in the United States in memory of the late archbishop. Lord…

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    Reynolds Price to give Peabody Lecture

    The 2001 Francis Greenwood Peabody Lecture will be given by Reynolds Price, James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University, at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 21, in the Memorial Church. The lecture is free and open to the public.

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    Mounting evidence indicts passive smoking

    The exposure of bar and restaurant staff to tobacco smoke from patrons can be as high as the exposure of active smokers, according to a study in the March 9 issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal. Wael Al-Delaimy, the studys principal author, is currently a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health…

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    In Brief

    Volunteer opportunities in Boston schools

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    Be hopeful, be wary, energy experts tell Mass.

    It probably wont, but it can happen here.

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    New grading system is announced

    While University administrators met with leaders of Harvards largest union, HUCTW, to work out terms of a new contract due to go to union members for a ratification vote on May 1, another set of negotiations produced revisions to the job classification grid for HUCTW members. The new contract, if ratified, will not go into…

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    NewsMakers

    Harvard Magazine names Cohen and Levenson fellows Arianne Cohen and Eugenia (Jane) V. Levenson have been named Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2001-02 academic year, when…

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    Public service gets spotlight

    Engaging in electoral politics is an exciting and rewarding way to try to heal the ills of the world, but its not the only way – that was the consensus of a distinguished forum Monday, April 9, at the Kennedy Schools Institute of Politics.

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    Radcliffe Culinary Friends fetes the food life

    The Radcliffe Culinary Friends presents its spring culinary event, The Life Around Food, on Thursday, May 3, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Meridian Hotel, 250 Franklin St., Boston.

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    The Big Picture: Jesse Armstrong

    Good morning, folks. Cmon right in. How ya doing, Marie! Jodi, hows that thesis coming? Wheres Ethel today? Step right up, ladies. How are you, sir? What a glorious day!

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    The ‘bilingual effect’ says that when it comes to language, more is more

    To some, a foreign language is exotic. To others, its strange and unwelcome.

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    Center for the Environment is established

    Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has announced the establishment of a University Center for the Environment. The new center will draw on the strengths of and serve all of Harvards faculties and will support the development of multidisciplinary approaches to the solution of complex environmental problems. It is our hope that this center will become the…

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    Police reports

    The following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 7. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…