Wynton Marsalis Awarded French Legion of Honor in NYC
Wynton Marsalis received France’s highest distinction last week in New York – the insignia of chevalier of the Legion of Honor, an honor t...
Wynton Marsalis received France’s highest distinction last week in New York – the insignia of chevalier of the Legion of Honor, an honor t...
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...
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...
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...
Russ Baker | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
It's worthwhile to have a further look at some of the players cited briefly in the Times article about the Simmons mattress company, so here is a bit more on the private equity kingpin Thomas H. Lee.
Giles Slade | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media
We followed 1,700 interconnected college students on Facebook. Their profiles listed favorite bands, movies, and authors. But we wondered how their tastes might spread.
The Boston Globe | David Abel | Posted 09.30.2009 | 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...
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 ...
Sunil Chacko | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
The landslide victory of Dr. Yukio Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to effect change in the way Japan does business.
Gay Browne | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
Greenopia announces its environmental ratings for the 100 largest schools in the US. At the top of the list were the University of Washington and the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Greg Lukianoff | Posted 09.20.2009 | Media
After 20 years of universities trying to dupe the public into believing that speech codes are okay by re-characterizing them as harassment policy codes, people of influence are starting to believe them.
Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
Private insurance companies don't want to be good capitalists and innovate. They fear competition because they are in a position where they don't need to provide a better service.
Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
I hope that the president, Crowley and Gates don't just share a "beer" and sweep this whole mess under the carpet. I hope they start a dialogue that gets them talking about how our unconscious prejudices cloud our day to day judgments.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Is this former lifelong Republican, now an avid Obama supporter, the only American with a sense of fury directed against the divided Democrats when it comes to reforming health care?
Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
I was thrilled to see the President invite Sgt. Crowley and Professor Gates to the White House. The more I consider who all three of these men are, the more they strike me as big, principled men.
Denise Dennis | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Gates' and Crowley's confrontation was a clash of egos in which pride and prejudice -- on both sides -- came into play.
Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics
Who are the beneficiaries of what appears to be the teapot tempest over the recent arrest of an African-American man in The People's Republic of Cambr...
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
As far as that pint of beer goes, I worry that it may take many shared kegs before we finally come together as a nation.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
It took just the right touch of passion and hint of anger that Obama brought to the table in the Gates' affair to get the tongues wagging about race and policing.
Eric Deggans | Posted 08.23.2009 | Home
Why did the Today show -- by far TV's most-watched morning show -- spend its first segment this morning discussing what the president said about the arrest of a black scholar in Cambridge, Mass.?
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
The refusal to admit that racial profiling exists has done much to torpedo nearly every effort by civil rights groups to get law enforcement to address this troubling trend.
Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Professor Gates is someone who deserves better from America. Yet, at the end of the day, he was just another black man residing while black.
Disgrasian | Posted 08.16.2009 | Entertainment
Other than getting laid by an Asian chick in a bathroom stall at a "nice club in Cambridge.." -- Zuckerberg's life comes across as a rather joyless verging on meaningless grind.
Jim Luce | Posted 07.28.2009 | World
With the changing nature of armed conflict, the impact of war on children and young people has become more brutal than ever.
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
There was a tragedy at Harvard last month. The tragedy wasn't that Harvard's bubble was tainted by violence. The tragedy was that the life of a young man with a great spirit and great future was cut short.
Jim Luce | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York