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Harvard MBAs: When Fewer Take Jobs On Wall Street, It May Indicate A Rising Stock Market

nytimes.com | Cyrus Sanati | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Investment Banks, Wall Street, Hedge Funds, Private Equity Firms, M.B.A., Financial Crisis, Soifer Consulting, Harvard Business School, Harvard, Business News

Fewer Harvard M.B.A. graduates took jobs on Wall Street this year than in the past as a result of the sharp contraction in the financial services indu...

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Harvard To Offer Class On 'The Wire'

nypost.com | Posted 11.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Harvard the Wire, The Wire, Harvard, Harvard University, Entertainment News

'THE Wire," HBO's gritty se ries about life in the Baltimore ghetto, is about to become a course at Harvard. The announcement came at a panel discu...

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Poverty: A Discussion Among the Seven Sisters

Martha St Jean | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Seven Sisters, Smith, Radcliffe, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Mayor Dannel Malloy, Harvard, Poverty Initiative, Onleilove Alston, Mount Holyoke, Dr. John O. Fox, Dr. Shirley Johnson-Lans, Fairfield County, Seven Sisters Colleges, Dannel Malloy, Poverty, Stamford, Barnard, Wellesley, Politics News
Martha St Jean

In the current recession far too much of the focus has fallen on the Middle Class and their woes. But what about the Lower Class? For them, this has been more of a continuation than a crisis.

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Harvard: Lab Workers Poisoned By Tainted Coffee

AP | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Harvard University, Sodium Azide, Harvard Researchers Poisoned, Harvard Lab, Poison, Researchers, Crime, Harvard Poisoning, Harvard, Chemicals, Coffee, Cambridge, Tainted Coffee, Home News

BOSTON — Six Harvard University medical researchers were poisoned in August after drinking coffee that was laced with a chemical preservative, a...

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Obama Goes to Oslo: The Quiz

Michael Kubin | Posted 10.13.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Nobel Prize, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Martin Luther King, Amartya Sen, Columbia, Al Franken, Guantanamo Bay, Harvard, Jfk, Barack Obama, Oslo, Comedy News
Michael Kubin

What will President Obama say in his Nobel Peace Prize lecture? Eleven possible quibbles, questions and quotations: you decide.

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What Civilized Country Operates Like This?

Tom Sullivan | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harvard, Duke University Medical Center, Remote Area Medical, Kristof, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Keith Olbermann, T.R. Reid, Pre-Existing-Condition, Politics News
Tom Sullivan

What civilized country operates like this? In case God-and-country defenders of the status quo need reminding, America's for-profit health insurance system serves neither.

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Do You Believe that One In 60 American Males Has Autism?

David Kirby | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Mercury, Harvard, Cdc, Autism, Kathleen Sebelius, Mitochondria, Neurotoxicology, Health and Human Services, Living News
David Kirby

For the Obama Administration and the mainstream media to accept that autism levels have always been this high is, frankly, wishful thinking and unsettlingly wrongheaded.

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Harvard Digitizes Rare Chinese Texts

Harvard College Library | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Harvard University Library, Harvard, Rare Books, Harvard University, Digital Texts, Books, Digital Books, Digitizing, Books News

October 9, 2009 --One of the most extensive collections of rare Chinese books outside of China will be digitized and made freely available to scholars...

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Not Fun Change...

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Obama, Aig, Harvard, Federal Reserve, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Timothy McVeigh, Economy, Business News
Stephen Gyllenhaal

It has struck me that those who are in charge -- from the White House, through the gleaming halls of Congress and around plump Wall Street -- all feel genuinely that they are right, that they are good.

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John Updike's Archive Acquired By Harvard

The Boston Globe | Tracy Jan | Posted 10.07.2009 | Books

Read More: Houghton Library, Books, Updike, Harvard, Updike Archive, John Updike Archive, John Updike, Books News

Harvard University has acquired the manuscripts, correspondences, and other papers of John Updike, a celebrated member of the Class of 1954 who kept a...

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The Fallacy of Execution (and Sex), or Why Mark Zuckerberg Doesn't Answer Questions About Facebook's Origins

Aaron Greenspan | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Mark Zuckerberg, Startups, Facebook, Business, Steve Jobs, houseSYSTEM, Harvard, Larry Ellison, Microsoft, Nature Magazine, Apple, Oracle, Cell Magazine, Bill Gates, Think Computer, Silicon Valley, Business News
Aaron Greenspan

There is no cliché I hear more, and that I hate more, than the vague, poorly-defined and generally ill-conceived notion that "execution" is more important than "the idea."

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Emma Watson The Victim Of Harvard Students' Stalking

nypost.com | Posted 10.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Harvard, Emma Watson Brown, Harvard Voice, Emma Watson Harvard, Emma Watson, Entertainment News

Page Six reported on Tuesday that the "Harry Potter" starlet and Brown University freshman looked "quite shaken" on Saturday as Harvard beat Brown 24-...

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Harvard Bars Library Books

The Boston Globe | David Abel | Posted 09.30.2009 | Books

Read More: Harvard, Bars on Books, Bars, Harvard University, Books, Books News

For nearly a century, the ornate library with the chandelier, fireplace, and wood-paneled walls has drawn students to its prized collection of classic...

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How Smart People at Yale and Harvard Invested Stupidly

Dan Solin | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Harvard, Dan Solin, Yale, Business News
Dan Solin

The trustees of the Yale and Harvard endowments lost sight of a basic rule of finance: When you take more risk, you increase the potential for both higher returns and higher losses.

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Jason Linkins

Enjoy This Dramatic Reading Of Peggy Noonan's Harvard Study Group Syllabus

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Chris Lehmann, Harvard, Peggy Noonan, Noonan Study Group, Noonan Harvard, Comedy News

Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan is leading a study group at Harvard, just like Joel McHale does in the new NBC show Community. Her offerin...

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Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival

Lauri Lyons | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

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Lauri Lyons

When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.

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Harvard's Endowment Drops Sharply Amid Recession

AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 09.11.2009 | Home

Read More: Yale, Harvard, Harvard University, Brown, Brown University, Ivy League, Recession, Harvard Management Company, Endowment, Home News

BOSTON — The total value of Harvard's endowment plunged nearly 30 percent in the last fiscal year as the Ivy League institution's portfolio was ...

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Harvard's Endowment Drops Sharply Amid Recession

AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Yale, Ivy League, Harvard, Yale Endowment, Endowments, Harvard Endowment, Business News

BOSTON — The total value of Harvard's endowment plunged nearly 30 percent in the last fiscal year as the Ivy League institution's portfolio was ...

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Does the Ivy League Turn You Into a Moron? Walter Kirn Critiques Princeton in "Lost in the Meritocracy"

Anis Shivani | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ivory Tower, Deconstruction, Postmodernism, Aphasia, Derrida, Ivy League, Mormonism, Lost in the Meritocracy, Intellectuals, Meritocracy, Yale, Harvard, Walter Kirn, Education, Keasbey Scholarship, Wall Street, High Schools, Princeton, Western Canon, Competition for Ivy League, Rhodes Scholarship, Theory, Schools, Academia, Education Reform, Higher Education, Public Education, Henry Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Postmodern Theory, Learning, Elite, Oxford University, Class, Oxford, Minnesota, Ruling Elite, Income Inequality, Great Books, Classics, Humanities, Politics News
Anis Shivani

Walter Kirn, author of the novels Up in the Air and Mission to America, has written the most enticing recent indictment of education in this country.

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Help, My President Is Trying to Inspire My Children! A Parent's Desperate Series of Tweets

David Wild | Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Health Care Reform, Harvard, President Barack Obama, Labor Day Weekend, Obama School Speech, Entertainment News
David Wild

The following is a series of increasingly desperate tweets for help this parent was forced to make during this frightening Labor Day weekend.

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Two Deficit Questions for Budgeting Expert Linda Bilmes

Pablo Manriquez | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Kennedy School of Government, Deficit, U.S. Economy, Harvard, Linda Bilmes, Budget, Business News
Pablo Manriquez

Any reduction in consumer spending, whether spurned by a tax increase or not, that causes a drop in our demand for Chinese products decreases China's incentive to lend to us except at higher interest rates.

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Harvard Med Drops "No Press" Policy For Students

New York Times | DUFF WILSON | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Media News

Harvard Medical School is backing off a new student policy that would have restricted interaction with the news media after students complained it wou...

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It Was the Most Literate of Times, It Was the Most Illiterate of Times

Jared Gardner | Posted 10.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Literacy, Twitter, Teaching, Facebook, Writing, Death of Publishing, Books, Harvard, Stanley Fish, New York News
Jared Gardner

Americans have long been terribly insecure about writing. From the minute independence was won, visions of literary and linguistic degeneration danced in the minds of American educators.

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For Labor Day: A Nod to a Woman Who Pushed for Worker Safety

Kate Kelly | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Labor, Alice Hamilton, Harvard, Labor Day, Union Holiday, Worker Safety, Politics News
Kate Kelly

Alice Hamilton was the energy behind investigating workplace health hazards. She should be honored for drawing attention to the daily dangers to which workers are exposed.

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Harvard, Princeton Top U.S. News & World Report's College Rankings Again

AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Williams, u.s. News , Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton, Living News

Perennial contenders Harvard and Princeton share the top spot in the latest edition of the influential U.S. News & World Report university rankings. W...

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