Nation & World
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As reading scores decline, a study primed to help grinds to a halt
Partnership with Texas, Colorado researchers terminated as part of federal funding cuts targeting Harvard
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Onion holds up mirror; society flashes big smile (with green stuff in teeth)
How some students at University of Wisconsin-Madison created satiric cultural institution
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Brainwashing? Like ‘The Manchurian Candidate’?
More than vestige of Cold War, mind-control techniques remain with us in social media, cults, AI, elsewhere, new book argues
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Why U.S. should be worried about Ukrainian attack on Russian warplanes
Audacious — and wildly successful — use of inexpensive drones against superior force can be used anywhere, against anyone
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Youth gun deaths rise in states that relaxed laws
Study compares child mortality rates before and after 2010 Supreme Court ruling
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Judge sides with Harvard on international students
Extends order blocking government’s attempt to revoke participation in Student and Exchange Visitor Program
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Reforming public education
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called for critical reforms to the nation’s public education system, during a discussion at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Candid chat with Choctaw chief
Leader of the Choctaw Nation visits Harvard classroom to discuss how he helped the Indian tribe to reorganize and solve many of its own problems.
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Reclaiming Port-au-Prince
Weeks after the earthquake, as populations of Haiti’s tent camps grow, so too does the threat of disease.
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Advising the president
White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett offered a personal look at President Barack Obama, as well as a take on some of the troubles in Washington, during a talk at a Harvard Kennedy School forum.
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Slavery in 2010
Harvard Kennedy School program looks at ways to prosecute and prevent modern-day slavery, and to protect the millions now in bondage.
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Knitting Europe together
Top Obama official discusses the need to integrate the nations of southeastern Europe into the rest of the continent.
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Working the night shift
Volunteers assist with a variety of medical skills, from nursing to orthopedics to medical equipment repair, playing a critical role in the response to the Haitian earthquake.
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The road to Khelshala
A member of the Harvard women’s squash team recounts the squad’s combination training and service trip to India during winter break, and how team members were changed in the process.
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A bridge to somewhere
Bady Balde, a learned émigré from Guinea, uses Harvard’s Bridge Program to go from Dining Services worker to bank teller to Harvard Kennedy School graduate student.
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Night shift, Port-au-Prince
A series of tents now function as Port-au-Prince’s primary hospital, as post-earthquake medical volunteers make ends meet during the night shift.
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The Haitian partnership
Speakers, including Paul Farmer, discuss how Harvard offshoots can collaborate with Haitians to try to build some stability in the earthquake-battered nation.
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HLS creates public service fund
Harvard Law School today (Feb. 9) announced the creation of the Public Service Venture Fund, which will start by awarding $1 million in grants every year to help graduating students pursue careers in public service.
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Hospital rises in the grass
Sandwiched between mountains and a large lake, a field hospital has sprung up amid the thorny trees and dried grass at Fond Parisien, near the border with the Dominican Republic. The site has become an oasis of medical care and hope in this still-reeling nation, where many thousands died and many more have been injured.
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In the clutches of the Taliban
New York Times reporter David Rohde discusses the seven months he was held captive by the Taliban on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan.
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Listen to the people
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says the public has turned on both political parties in the last three years, in each case because it thought it was being ignored. When politicians do that, he said, they will suffer the consequences.
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Getting Haiti to stand again
Harvard authorities probe what needs to happen now, in six months, in a decade.
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Break, but no vacation
Harvard students volunteer for service projects overseas — targeting malnutrition and aiding literacy and athletics — during winter break.
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The Haitian apocalypse
A Harvard panel looks at the Haitian crisis through the lens of both history and medicine.
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Freshman at State of Union
Harvard freshman Janell Holloway was among the guests sitting in first lady Michelle Obama’s congressional box during the State of the Union speech Wednesday.
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Multiple interests
Howard Gardner, creator of the theory of multiple intelligences, reflects on his past breakthrough discoveries and his present policy interests during a presentation at an Askwith Forum.
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Attracting stronger federal workforce
Q&A with David T. Ellwood, dean of the Harvard Kennedy School: Acting in time on the government workforce.
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HBS talks iPad
Four Harvard Business School professors offer their early thoughts on prospects for the new Apple iPad.
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Dream works
Two former mayors from other nations recount how they took over troubled cities and installed controversial but effective measures to solve urban problems and re-engage the public.
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An orphanage regroups
The family of a Harvard undergraduate in Haiti struggles to provide food, shelter, and safety to their orphanage complex there.
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Judging the campaign finance ruling
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling striking down corporate limits on campaign financing, several Harvard faculty members weigh in on what the ruling means and where it’s likely to lead.
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Relief for Haitian city
Putting aside their winter-break activities, an ad-hoc Harvard relief team in the Dominican Republic helps to ship boatloads of relief supplies to the coastal Haitian city of Jacmel.
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Students help Haiti
When the massive earthquake hit Haiti, a group of Harvard students working on a water purification project in the Dominican Republic switched gears to help transport supplies across the border.
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Medical workers gain momentum
Harvard-affiliated doctors report on carnage, rescue operations in quake-ravaged Haiti, as medical teams gain traction.
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Harvard mobilizes relief fund
Assistance mobilizes to aid earthquake-shaken Haiti, including groups of experts and medical personnel affiliated with Harvard.
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Timely course
Why do societies and their governments fail so often to act in time to avert crises that appear in plain sight? What can be done to alter that pattern? Those questions served as impetus for a new intensive January session course, “Acting in Time,” at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).