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Is Reality TV Hurting the Integrity of Community Service?

Carolyn Rubenstein | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living

Read More: NYC Prep, Harvard, College Admissions, Community Service, Reality TV, Perseverance, Non-Profits, High School, Carolyn Rubenstein, The Giving Life, Living News
Carolyn Rubenstein

I watch [NYC Prep] purely for the entertainment value it offers, but I've become upset with how the series devalues community service; it's used merely as a pawn to ensure entry into an elite school.

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In Your Face(book)

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Eduardo Saverin, Mark Zuckerberg, Breaking Media News, Harvard, Facebook, Ben Mezrich, Sean Parker, Media News
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

The soft pornmeister of yuppy nonfiction, Ben Mezrich, author of Bringing Down the House, is back to tell the story of the founding of the hugely successful social network, Facebook.

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Gates Forgot to Pay His Skin Tax

Lowell Thompson | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Skin, Gates, Tax, Harvard, Henry Louis Gates, Racial Profiling, Arrested, Profiling, Blacktax, Politics News
Lowell Thompson

Even my most progressive white friends play down the differences in our American experience because of skin color.

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Skip Is My Hero

Trey Ellis | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harvard, Henry Louis Gates, Santa Monica, Police, Politics News
Trey Ellis

Although some have decried Professor Gates as overreacting, I know, from personal experience, that what he did was an act of courage.

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How Heavy the Load

Ferentz LaFargue | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vibe Magazine, Mark Anthony Neal, Adam Serwer, Hazel Carby, Harvard, Skip Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Politics News
Ferentz LaFargue

Training public servants to treat black people more humanely is a very different task than training public servants to treat black people more humanely because they might be Harvard professors.

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Racism or Not, Cambridge Police Owes Professor Gates an Apology

Ahmed Rehab | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Black, Harvard, Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge, African-Americans, Post-Racial, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrested, Racial Profiling, Politics News
Ahmed Rehab

While it is easy to come to the defense of a black man who happens to be a world class scholar, how many less fortunate blacks get arrested on even more flimsy grounds with no public outcry?

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What Do You Call a Black Man at Harvard?

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harvard, Racial Profiling, Cambridge, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Politics News
Casey Gane-McCalla

If one good thing can come out of the arrest, it is that upper class educated African Americans will realize that racial profiling is problem that affects us all.

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Cambridge Police Conduct Sweep of Harvard Professors

Andy Borowitz | Posted 07.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Andy Borowitz, Harvard, Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge, Racial Profiling, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

"These academics may be armed and dangerous," Cambridge police chief Ryan Slatson warned. "They may also be long-winded and boring."

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Race in America: Comments on the Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Martha St Jean | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Henry Louis Gates Arrest, Harvard, Al Sharpton, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrested, Black Scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr, Breaking Politics News, The Root, Henry Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates Arrested, Henry Gates Arrested, Politics News
Martha St Jean

One commentator said, " I am tired of the race card being played every time a black person is arrested/questioned or anything else that happens with the police."

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The Facebook Movie Puts the zZzZ's in Zuckerberg

Disgrasian | Posted 08.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Eduardo Saverin, Facebook Movie, Napster, Twitter, Harvard University, Social Networks, Social Networking, The Social Network, Social Networking Sites, Aaron Sorkin, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Lawsuit, Harvard, Facebook, Aaron Sorkin Facebook, Sean Parker, Facebook-Movie, Entertainment News
Disgrasian

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.

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Atlas of Unknowns Keeps Readers Engrossed Until the Last Page

Naazish YarKhan | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Harvard, A Tale of Two Sisters, Columbia University, Summer Reads, India, Tania James, Author, Kerela, Media News
Naazish YarKhan

In literary fiction, it all comes down to the writing. Ultimately, the book you're trying to sell to an agent/publisher has to stand on its own merit.

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What is Work? Finding Your True Career in Life's Second Act

Sharon Glassman | Posted 08.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Law, Dartmouth College, Human Rights, Work, Environment, Utilities, Careers, Work-Life Balance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Kennedy-School-of-Government, Harvard, Career Change, Happiness, Living News
Sharon Glassman

Seconds acts are ours for the making. This concept was brought home to me as I chatted with John Sherman III -- a man whose professional story embodies the "yes, we can!" principle of positive second pro-act-ion.

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Nestle Gets It Right

Dan Silverstein | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Give Something Back, Sharon Stone, Peter Brabeck, Crops, Office for Partnerships, Creating Shared Value, Profitability, Harvard, Davos, Capitalist, Water, Farmers, Sustainability, Un, Nestle, UN Global Compact Principals, World Economic Forum, Business News
Dan Silverstein

Nestle has taken specific and measurable steps to achieve sustainable, shared value.

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Harvard Adjusts To Leaner Times: Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair | By Vanity Fair | Posted 08.03.2009 | Business

Read More: University Endowments, Havard Endowment Losses, Vanity Fair, Harvard, Harvard Endowment, Business News

For years, administrators at Harvard University could throw money at anything that tickled their fancy. A new medical school building for $260 million...

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Jumping Back on the Ladder: Talking With Harvard's Christine Heenan

Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Work-Life Balance, Womenomics, Working Mothers, Flexible Work Schedules, Harvard, Living News
Morra Aarons-Mele

Christine Heenan, who spent her twenties in the Clinton White House, notes that even after jumping off the corporate ladder, "You can absolutely come out on top."

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Once More, we get Killed by "Experts"

Pablo Triana | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Iatrogenics, Economic Crisis, L.J. Henderson, Financial Crisis, Nassim Taleb, Credit Crisis, Harvard, Aaa, Business News
Pablo Triana

The credit crisis was the result of rampant iatrogenics. The term literally means physician-induced. An iatrogenic death, or disease, would be one caused by the doctor.

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The Oath: An Ethics Promise at the Harvard Business School

Tom Morris | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Graduation, Harvard, Harvard Business School, Oath of Ethics, Ethics, Business Ethics, Business News
Tom Morris

The core commitments of business ethics aren't complicated in principle. But their application in the real world demands nuance, sophistication, hard thought, wisdom, skill, and consistency.

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The Millenium's Challenge

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Aid, Millenium Challenge Corporation, US Foreign Aid, George W. Bush, Africa, Economic Recovery, Harvard, Barack Obama, World News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

The MCC has been praised as an innovative instrument of foreign aid and is an interesting experiment in trying to keep money out of the hands of gangsters.

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Harvard Business School's New "M.B.A Oath": Greed Is Not Good

New York Times | LESLIE WAYNE | Posted 06.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Harvard Business School Oath, Harvard, Harvard Business School, Hbs, Business News

When a new crop of future business leaders graduates from the Harvard Business School next week, many of them will be taking a new oath that says, in ...

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The Reality of Reality

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Candid Camera, Reality TV, Twitter, Associated Press, Cable Tv, Harvard, Facebook, Star Search, Internet, Queen for a Day, Advertising, Viagra, Ted Mack's Amateur Hour, Frank Sinatra, Neilsen Media Research, American Idol, Myspace, Media News
B. Jeffrey Madoff

Twitter can certainly create the hype, but whether the talented producers behind it can actually deliver a program anyone will want to watch remains to be seen.

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Justin Cosby, Harvard Shooting Victim, Dies

AP | Posted 06.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Harvard, Harvard Shooting, Harvard Shooting Victim, Justin Cosby, Justin Cosby Dead, Harvard Shooting Death, Home News

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A 21-year-old man shot inside a Harvard University dormitory Monday while students studied for finals died Tuesday. Justin C...

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Why We Are Not, In Fact, What We Buy

New York Times | John Tierney | Posted 06.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Iphone, Harvard, Bmw, Relationships, Brand Names, Shopping, Fulfillment, Branding, Personal Branding, Self-Esteem, Confidence, Living News

"Evolution is good at getting us to avoid death, desperation and celibacy, but it's not that good at getting us to feel happy," says Geoffrey Miller, ...

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AFS: World Peace Begins in High School

Jim Luce | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: E.E. Cummings, Brian Atwood, French Fellowships, Ernest Hemingway, A. Piatt Andrew, Youth for Understanding, United Nations, Jaroslava Moserova, World Peace, Cady Coleman, Harvard, AFS Intercultural Programs, Facebook, American Hospital in Paris, Global Citizens, Rotary Exchange, CéSar Gaviria, W. Somerset Maugham, Hans Schlegel, Afs, Council on Foreign, Fulbright Scholars, American Field Service, Eduardo RodríGuez Veltzé, World War I, Orphans International Worldwide, American Red Cross, Tadatoshi Akiba, R. Nick Burns, Thought Leaders, Grayson Kirk, World News
Jim Luce

I would not be who I am today -- and the organization I founded, Orphans International Worldwide -- would not exist, if it were not for my life-impacting experiences with AFS.

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Killing People vs Aborting Fetuses: An Open Letter to Harvard Law Professor Mary Ann Glendon

Myriam Miedzian | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Notre Dame, Abortion, Prostitution, Obama, Iraq Casualties, Bush, Harvard Law, Harvard, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Politics News
Myriam Miedzian

Like you, the church seems much more concerned with the survival of fetuses and "possible fetuses" than with human beings.

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Sexy Job of the Future: the Almighty Fact-Checker

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Walletpop, Devil Wears Prada, Harvard, Michael Wolff, Air America, Craig Newmark, Wolff's Newser, Andrea Chalupa, Snark, Vanity Fair, Newser.com, WalletPop.Com, Bennett Zier, Sexy Job of the Future, Media News
Andrea Chalupa

It's sad to think that journalistic standards, and reliability, is slipping away as magazines and newspapers shut down. But this is creating a great Hollywood close-up for the humble fact-checker.

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