Year: 2003

Can education help repair the frayed ties between the United States and the Arab world? With a regime toppling in Iraq, a panel of distinguished academics gathered in Harvard Hall last Saturday (April 12) afternoon to speak to the question and offer practical solutions for drawing the United States and the nations of the Middle…

As the first female governor of Massachusetts and the first governor in the United States to give birth while in office, Jane Swift received more than her share of media attention – both positive and negative – for her very public attempt to balance work and family.

On April 12, at approximately 2:50 a.m., a graduate student was the victim of an attempted unarmed robbery. While walking along Kirkland Street near Francis Avenue, the student encountered two males standing on the sidewalk. One of the suspects demanded that the victim give him his wallet. After the victim stated that he did not…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 12. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

April 5, 1931 – Easter Sunday. The Russian bells of Lowell House ring out for the first time in Cambridge. April 23, 1955 – The Harvard Glee Club and the…

The University has created a Web site, www.emergency.harvard.edu, to provide information regarding the Universitys response to national security alerts, travel advisories, and similar news. The site is updated as situations warrant. This site is also where information will appear in the event of an emergency situation that affects the Harvard community.

The Gazette failed to identify Anthonia Umeh (left), Kenechukwu Abajue, 8, and Carolyn Turk, the interim superintendent of schools in Cambridge, in this photo that appeared on page 10 of the April 10 edition of the Gazette. The three were joined by 800 other visitors to the Fogg Art Museum on April 6 to view…

In a rare U.S. public appearance, North Koreas ambassador to the United Nations, Song Ryol Han, repeated his nations call for bilateral talks with the United States over North Koreas nuclear program and said that the Iraq war has heightened North Korean fears of American aggression.

Jack was a thief and Little Red Riding Hood a seductress. Kids adore ogres and beheadings as much as princesses and obedient little children. The moral to the story might…

Sabrina Peck 84 never thought that the combination of dance theater, public service, and education that seemed so specific to her would appeal to generations of Harvard students. It follows that she never imagined that such a combination could propel her program, CityStep, to the ranks of the campus most popular, enduring civic activities.

Jack was a thief and Little Red Riding Hood a seductress.

War talk and pictures are everywhere and adults are wondering what to tell their children about it.

The mystery ailment known as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has the potential to spread rapidly in Bostons unexposed population, but the biggest public health danger now may be fear, experts told U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Friday (April 4) at a briefing at Harvards Countway Medical Library.

A few years back, an editor from Harvard Magazine called Harvey Mansfield and asked if he would contribute a short quote for a profile of a fellow faculty member. Mansfield replied that the quality that had always impressed him about this colleague was his manliness.

A boldly worded title – Do the Right Thing: Why Harvard Supports Affirmative Action and Why Every College Should – left little room for doubt about the positions of the panelists at the Graduate School of Educations (GSE) Askwith Forum Tuesday (April 8). Indeed, it was by explicit design that the panel, co-sponsored by the…

Thursday, June 5, 2003 Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre…

Robert Zinck has nothing against movies that tell stories, movies with characters and dialogue and dramatic arcs and plot points. If people want to make films like that, thats fine with him. But he has other interests.

Blooming on the banks of the Charles – perhaps in lieu of more seasonal blossoms – are bunches of poems about spring. Leverett House tutors worked along with students to post lyrically laminated signs along the riverbed. While they were at it, they picked up trash, despite Sapphos ancient warning: If you are squeamish,/Dont prod…

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:

Web site offers information about emergency preparedness at Harvard

The Kennedy School of Governments (KSGs) Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group (ENRFG) has announced that the Savitz Fellowship has been conferred to Lori Snyder, a Ph.D. student in public policy at KSG. The fellowship, granted to the best paper written by a doctoral student in the area of environmental and resource policy during 2002,…

In his 1970s lament for lost innocence, American Pie, Don McLean sang about the day the music died.

Maria Schweinburg Grossmann, a specialist in 16th century European history who began her career at the Divinity School library in 1956 as a member of the acquisitions staff, died on March 30.

The interests of the developed world are closely associated with the success of the developing world, asserted Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers as this years Edward L. Godkin lecturer. Summers drew a standing-room-only crowd at Mondays forum (April 7), where he delivered an almost-hour-long talk on Globalization and American Interests.

Visitors to and employees in Harvards Holyoke Center cant help but notice that the way they access their offices has changed over the past few weeks. The issuing of neck ribbons for Harvard University IDs (HUIDs), the firm but friendly requests by security personnel to see those IDs, and even those mysterious gray boxes are…

Its Friday night, HMV Record Store in Harvard Square. The shock of electric guitar vibrates the CD shelf near a group of spectators who stand in front of a makeshift stage. In the center of that stage, Monique Ortiz is dressed in a black shirt and jeans. She takes the mike into a tight fist…

Three Harvard Library staff members have been named recipients of this years Bryant Fellowship Award. Kathryn Jacob, Michael P. Olson, and Irene Tarsis will be presented with the fellowship at an awards luncheon in May.

The best part of Cambridge seventh-grader Vassia Vaneus Friday last week (April 4) was seeing all the animals and birds during a tour of the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Vaneus, who wants to be a doctor or a scientist, said she learned a lot about college Friday.