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  • Panel about ‘Arts in Civic Dialogue’ to follow historical play:

    On March 10, the Graduate School of Educations Askwith Education Forum will host a panel about Arts in Civic Dialogue. The panel, held at the Gutman Conference Center from 6 to 7:30 p.m., follows a live performance of The Trial of Anthony Burns, a historical play about an 1854 fugitive slave trial in Boston that galvanized the abolitionist movement in America. Anthony Burns is portrayed by Keith Mascoll (left) and Richard Henry Dana is played by Christopher Robin Cook.

  • Newsmakers

    Locke is elected president of APS Steven E. Locke, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and staff psychiatrist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will assume the presidency…

  • New drug combination improves survival in rare, aggressive bone cancer of children and young adults:

    Adding two experimental drugs to the standard four-drug chemotherapy regimen has significantly improved survival in patients with nonmetastatic Ewings sarcoma, a highly malignant bone cancer of children and young adults, according to a report published in the Feb. 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

  • Ivy spill:

    The Harvard mens basketball team reached a milestone of sorts this past weekend. Unfortunately for the Crimson, it entailed losing three straight games to some of the Ivys finest (and not-so-finest) basketball clubs.

  • Harvard vs. Yale:

    Sophomore Asher Hochberg (right) squares off against Yales Aftab Mathur in the Crimsons final dual match of the season on Feb. 19 at the Murr Center Courts. Harvard fell, 5-4, but returned the favor at the College Squash Association Team Championships this past weekend at Princeton, topping the Bulldogs, 5-4, in the consolation round of the national tournament. The Crimson took third place to end its season with a 6-3 overall mark (4-2 Ivy). Meanwhile, the womens team captured the Ivy title for the third straight year with a 5-4 victory over Yale on Feb. 19. The Crimson, who will compete in the WISRA Individual Championships this weekend at Trinity, finished the regular season perfect in the Ivies at 6-0 (8-1 overall).

  • Academic freedom vs. national security discussed:

    The free flow of ideas may be a better protection against biological weapons than the secrecy created by classifying academic research, said panelists at the Kennedy School of Government Friday (Feb. 21).

  • Basic research takes root, flowers :

    A center for social science research has been quietly growing on the Harvard campus for five years, fostering interdisciplinary thought and coming up with new ways to conduct social science research on topics such as the causes of war and removing bias from social science surveys.

  • Black Arts Festival features films:

    The 2003 Black Arts Festival takes place Friday (Feb. 28)-Sunday (March 2). For a complete schedule, go to www.blackartsfestival.net. Events include: Forum: ‘Whose Music Is It Anyway? Thinking About Jazz,…

  • Rare watercolors bloom among master drawings:

    An exhibition of more than 100 drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection will open at Harvards Fogg Art Museum on March 22, and will remain on view through July 6. The collection includes Dutch and Flemish drawings and is the foremost group of 17th century Dutch drawings in private hands. The exhibition will highlight recently acquired works and will allow visitors to examine many important drawings that have seldom been on public display.

  • Taylor to perform at Faith & Life concert:

    Composer and performer Livingston Taylor will return to the Faith & Life Forum on Friday (Feb. 28) at 7:30 p.m. for a free concert. Open to the Harvard community, the performance will also feature special guests from Harvards Festival Choir and will be held at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.

  • Memorial Minute:

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 10, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital to launch its first live web surgery program:

    For the first time, surgeons at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) will broadcast cutting-edge surgeries over the Web, in an effort to familiarize doctors with new surgical techniques and to inform the general public about medical advances.

  • FAS looks forward with ambitious plans:

    February 1, 2003

  • New course links service to academics:

    Theres a well-worn refrain among Harvards most dedicated student volunteers and its legions of alumni who pursue careers as public service leaders: Phillips Brooks House Association was the best course I took at Harvard.

  • Let it stop! Let it stop! Let it stop!:

    A montage of photographs shot from the 10th floor of Holyoke Center. More snow photos, page 11.

  • Defensive maneuvers

    Lawyer Johnnie Cochran was part of the Saturday School Program at the Law School recently. The program was created in 1988 to give authors and activists an opportunity to present controversial works-in-progress to law students.

  • Three street robberies reported near Quad

    Between Feb. 8 and 12, the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) filed three reports of street robbery occurring in the area of the Quadrangle. The first incident occurred on Feb. 8 at approximately 6:23 p.m. at 65 Martin St., when the suspect attacked the victim with a folding knife. The second incident occurred on Feb. 12 at approximately 6:51 p.m. at 14-16 Holly Ave. In this incident, the victim was walking his dog when the suspect lunged at him with a folding knife. In both incidents, the victims suffered stab wounds.

  • This month in Harvard history

    Feb. 27, 1971 – At Currier House, Radcliffe sponsors its first annual prelaw conference. February 1972 – Harvard purchases the 180-room Hotel Continental (Garden St. and Concord Ave., Cambridge) for…

  • Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 15. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

  • President and Provost set office hours

    President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:

  • Professor presents hideous flip side of Western sublime :

    Alan Berger has been called the anti-Ansel Adams.

  • Jantzen lands EIWA honor

    Jantzen lands EIWA honor

  • Louder than words:

    Sylvio Castiglioni announced to a group of students that they would start off with the oldest game in the world: I do, you repeat. The 35 minutes that followed looked like the movement-based equivalent of a gospel choir face-off as the pack imitated Castiglioni, then alternate leaders, in a succession of lunges, squats, stomps, tumbles, and contortions.

  • Harvard students build bridges to development success stories:

    Around the world toil remarkable people whose unique skills and extraordinary enthusiasm put them at the center of difficult challenges. They bring people together who need to meet, create organizations where none existed, and are sometimes the lone force behind the search for solutions to daunting social problems.

  • Vaccine technique shows potential against common form of lung cancer:

    In a demonstration of vaccine therapys potential for treating lung cancer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists and their associates report that a prototype vaccine boosted the natural immune response to tumors in a small group of patients with advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Moreover, the vaccine was found to be nontoxic and well-tolerated.

  • HRES proposes 2003-04 increases for Affiliated Housing

    Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) has proposed a 0 percent rent increase for the majority of current Affiliated Housing residents who live in the approximately 2,500 Harvard Affiliated Housing apartments.…

  • Faculty Council notice for Feb. 19

    At its 10th meeting of the year, the Faculty Council considered a proposal from the student members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) to move the deadline for dropping courses from the fifth to the seventh week of term. Rohit Chopra 04, Oluseyi Fayanju 04, Omolola Kassim 04, and Alexander Patterson 03, all members of CUE, were present for this discussion.

  • Queen Latifah crowned Artist of the Year by Harvard Foundation

    Oscar nominee and Grammy Award winner Queen Latifah has been selected the 2003 Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. Latifah will be awarded the foundation tribute at Harvards Annual Cultural Rhythms Festival on Saturday (Feb. 22).

  • Martin Scorsese honored as Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year :

    Martin Scorsese has never been the sort of filmmaker to milk his successes by creating endless sequels to his movies. There is no Taxi Driver 2, Raging Bull, the Comeback, or Son of Goodfellas.

  • The power of paper (and cardboard, and plywood):

    What is a building?