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Tag: John Laidler
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Nation & World
Drawing wisdom from the young
Speaking at a student conference at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin said the young may be able to prompt Americans to work together again politically.
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Nation & World
Fraught moment for religious freedom
A Divinity School conversation focused on religious freedom in the wake of President Trump’s executive action on immigration.
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Nation & World
Hasty Pudding honors Octavia Spencer
The Hasty Pudding Theatricals honored actress Octavia Spencer two days after she received her latest Academy Award nomination.
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Nation & World
‘Desperate but not hopeless times’
A Europe showing cracks in its unity now adds worries about U.S. ties to its concerns, analysts tell a Harvard panel.
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Nation & World
Harvard women, front and center
First Harvard Women’s Weekend focuses on what’s been gained, and what’s still to achieve.
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Nation & World
Of medicine and ethics
Shifts in the medical care field can allow health care providers both to prosper and to serve patients better, speaker tells Harvard Medical School conference.
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Nation & World
Mixed progress cited in challenging discrimination
The Weatherhead Center continued its series of discussions on inequality, focusing on the mixed progress of efforts to advance fairness and social inclusion. The talk touched on discrimination against the Roma people and the disabled, and the rise of inequality in an era of support for human rights.
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Nation & World
The fears of American Muslims
Vitriolic politics and terror strikes are fueling an increase in suspicion and mistrust of American Muslims, panelists say.
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Nation & World
Working, with children
While there is greater support for gender equality today, how it’s defined and how greatly it’s supported remains in flux, a panel of sociologists found.
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Nation & World
United in grief and action
Harvard students with ties to Nepal have joined a multicampus response to the devastation wrought by two major earthquakes.
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Nation & World
Understanding Turkey
Turkey appears to be moving away from the path toward reforms that helped to fuel an economic resurgence there in the early 2000s, a leading economist told a Harvard audience.
