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Washington: Totally Disconnected From Main Street

Don McNay | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business


Don McNay

Operating a business on Main Street is a lot different than lecturing at the Harvard Economic Club. The team Obama surrounded himself with has spent way more time in a faculty lounge than in the corner barber shop.

Project Saves Hi-Tech Lab Trash For Scientists In Developing World

Posted 11.23.2009 | Impact


Nina Dudnik went to Harvard in 2001 to pursue a doctorate in molecular biology. Instead, the Boston Globe reports, she found a way to provide labs in ...

Harvard Vs. Yale: Harvard Comes Back To Defeat Yale, 14-10

AP | PAT EATON-ROBB | Posted 11.21.2009 | Sports


NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Collier Winters threw for 211 yards and two touchdowns Saturday as Harvard came back from a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit t...

Poker Pros Make Excellent Traders, Says Harvard Finance Professor

bloomberg.com | Mason Levinson | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business


Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Brandon Adams, who teaches behavioral finance at Harvard University's Department of Economics, says some of the best candidates...

With Harvard's Help, Congress May Keep Bloggers Out of Jail

Ari Melber | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media


Ari Melber

Tt just got a little easier out here for a blogger. The smart folks at Harvard's Citizen Media Law Project are launching a program of free legal services for online and citizen media.

Elizabeth Warren's New Model For Wall St.: 'If You Can't Explain It, You Can't Sell It'

bloomberg.com | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business


Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- In Elizabeth Warren's world, credit card contracts would be so simple a teenager could read and understand them in four minutes...

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


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...

Harvard To Offer Class On 'The Wire'

nypost.com | Posted 11.02.2009 | Entertainment


'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...

Poverty: A Discussion Among the Seven Sisters

Martha St Jean | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics


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.

Harvard: Lab Workers Poisoned By Tainted Coffee

AP | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home


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

Obama Goes to Oslo: The Quiz

Michael Kubin | Posted 10.13.2009 | Comedy


Michael Kubin

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

What Civilized Country Operates Like This?

Tom Sullivan | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics


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.

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

David Kirby | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living


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.

Harvard Digitizes Rare Chinese Texts

Harvard College Library | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books


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...

Not Fun Change...

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business


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.

John Updike's Archive Acquired By Harvard

The Boston Globe | Tracy Jan | Posted 10.07.2009 | Books


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

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


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."

Emma Watson The Victim Of Harvard Students' Stalking

nypost.com | Posted 12.01.2009 | Entertainment


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

Harvard Bars Library Books

The Boston Globe | David Abel | Posted 11.30.2009 | Books


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

How Smart People at Yale and Harvard Invested Stupidly

Dan Solin | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business


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.

Jason Linkins

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.25.2009 | Comedy


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...

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

Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | 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.

Harvard's Endowment Drops Sharply Amid Recession

AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home


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 ...

Harvard's Endowment Drops Sharply Amid Recession

AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business


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 ...

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


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.