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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

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

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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Who Are the Best and the Brightest?

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 05.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Merrill Lynch, John Thain, Kennedy, Collaterized Debt Obligations, Aig, Vietnam, Harvard, Cancer, The Best and the Brightest, Health Care, Wall Street Bonuses, Edward Liddy, Business News

If these people were "the best and the brightest," why did the financial crisis happen?

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College Crunch Time: Dreams, Decisions, Drama

Darryle Pollack | Posted 05.13.2009 | Living

Read More: College Admissions, Parenting, Ups, Harvard, College, Living News

College crunch time is bad enough for a kid. It's far worse as a parent. Nothing hurts more than when your kid is rejected -- whether by a 4 year old on the playground or by Harvard.

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Big Science in a Small City

Sharon Glassman | Posted 07.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Humor, Physics, Women and Science, Dr. Susan Love, Richard Feynman, Kirsten Sanford, Caltech, Lisa Randall, Harvard, Michelle Thaller, James Joyce, Violin, Fiddle, Bluegrass, Quirks, Science, Cwa, Albert Einstein, Quarks, Cu, Style News

Lingo without linguistics can be dangerous, I knew. One of the great things about life out West is that people respect newbies. And they don't begrudge mistakes.

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Living Large and in Charge

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Scheer, Merrill Lynch, Bailout, Goldman Sachs, Truthdig, Lawrence Summers, Lehman Brothers, Aig, Harvard, Wall Street, Business News

No one has been more persistently effective in paving the way for the financial swindles that enriched the titans of finance while impoverishing the rest of the world than Lawrence Summers.

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Confirm Harold Koh as State Department Legal Adviser

Brandt Goldstein | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: War on Terror, Rule of Law, President Obama, Harold Koh, Guantanamo, Oxford, State Department, Yale, Harvard, Senate, Human Rights, Treaties, Ted Olson, South Korea, Supreme Court, Cuba, Legal Adviser, Constitution, Obama Transition, Politics News

Harold Koh is a brilliant and hard-working lawyer with a strong dedication to protecting America's interests and upholding our Constitution.

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Addressing Phi Theta Kappa on Social Responsibility

Jim Luce | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Facebook, Paradox of Affluence in America, Episcopal, Technology With a Conscience, Mother Jones, Twitter, The Learning Tree, Mathew Luce, AIDS Orphans, Haiti, Daiwa Bank, Mayflower, Starfish Story, Harvard, Jim Luce Story, Merrill Lynch, Thomas Dudley, Vow of Poverty, Wall Street, College of Wooster, Phi Theta Kappa, Orphans, Social Responsibility, Celebes Islands, Stanford Leonard Luce, Frances Alleman-Luce, Jim's Rule, Orphans International Worldwide, Japanese Studies, Shel Silverstein, Mathew's Rule, Orphanage, Phi-Theta-Kappa, Careers, Living News

One person can make a difference. You can make a difference.

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Muna Abu Sulayman: Saudi Arabia's 'Oprah'

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 04.23.2009 | World

Read More: Saudi Women, Oprah Winfrey, American University of Beirut, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Georgetown University, Muna Abu Sulayman; Al Waleed Bin Talal, Edinburgh, Harvard, Anti-Muslim Bias, Muslim, Cambridge, American-University-in-Cairo, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News

She has been called the Saudi Arabian version of 'Oprah', though the TV program she co-hosts, an all-women talk show called 'Kalam Nawa'im' on pan-Arab channel MBC, much more resembles ABC's The View.

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AIG v. Detroit - Renegotiating Contracts

Steve Parker | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Congress, Boeing, Rick Wagoner, United Auto Workers, Barney Frank, Cars, Job Bank, Harvard, Aig, Wwwtalkradioonecom, General Motors, Dodge Challenger, Fiat, Sema, Bob Nardelli, Allstate, Tarp, Elijah Cummings, 2010 Chevrolet Camaro, Alan Mulally, Detroit Three, Dearborn, Washington DC, Ford Motor Co, Las Vegas, Detroit Automakers, Chrysler, Chrysler Jeep, Wharton, Ron Gettelfinger, Yale University, Ford Mustang, Uaw, Edward Liddy, Business News

Congress could throw hundreds of billions at GM, Ford and Chrysler -- but how could the results be any different from what we see now?'

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Distracted? Meet Maggie Jackson

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 04.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Google, Distracted, Ipod, Blackberry, Maggie Jackson, Attention, Cognitive Science, Workplace, David Brooks, New York Times, Harvard, Book, Living News

Despite our scientific and technical achievements, we are squandering our chances to create a high-tech, yet reflective and caring society.

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Harvard Scrambling To Pay Its Bills

New York Times | GERALDINE FABRIKANT | Posted 03.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Harvard, Harvard Endowment, Harvard University, Business News

Harvard may be the nation's wealthiest university, but it is short on cash. The school relies on its endowment to generate a third of the money for i...

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Global Retailers Battle for Big Box Brazil

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 03.04.2009 | World

Read More: Wal Mart, Planned Economy, Obama, Brazil, Roberto Unger, Globalism, France, Brazil Credit Rates, Harvard, Megastores, Banco Itau, Branding, Marketing, Carrefour, Bric, Casino, Pao De Azucar, Davos, Davos 2009, Davos Conference, World Economic Forum, World News

In tropical Brazil, millions of citizens are shucking the pathology of underdevelopment. Big box giants trust Brazil's economy and are spending billions to woo new customers.

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Can Progressives Grow Up? (President Obama Needs the Left to Change Its Ways)

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Change, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, The Left, 1960s, Left Wing, Progressives, The Right, Right Wing, Harvard, Obama Progressives, Progressive Movement, Rotc, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Progressives, Columbia University, Politics News

First President Obama wasn't "black enough" for the black left. Then he was "too centrist" in his appointments for the white left. Then he wasn't gay friendly enough. Now he is President.

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The Biggest Loser

Gregory Allen Howard | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

If a white man with Clarence Thomas's meager background of minor government bureaucrat had been put up for the Supreme Court, there would have been outrage. Except that he was Black.

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Princeton Scores Lower Bond Rate Than Harvard, Times Debt Market Perfectly

Bloomberg | Bryan Keogh | Posted 02.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Bond Markets, Harvard, Princeton Bond Sale, Debt Markets, Taxable Bond Sales, Princeton, Business News

Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Princeton University raised $1 billion in its first taxable bond sale since 1994 at lower rates than Harvard University paid a...

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An Anti-Kennedy Coalition: Radio Ranters and Intellectuals

Martin Nolan | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Ellen Alderman, Otis Pike, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joseph P. Kennedy, Hempstead, Greenwich Village, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Ted Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Harvard, Eugene McCarthy, Ronald Reagan. Adlai StevensonRobert Kennedy, Ed McCormack, James Buckley, Kenneth Keating Sam Stratton, Alfonse D'Amato, Caroline Kennedy Senate Seat, Caroline Kennedy Senate, David Paterson Caroline Kennedy, David Paterson, Roosevelts, Adamses, U.S. Senate, Hillary Clinton Senate Seat, Politics News

The Empire State is a triumvirate uniting the House of Clinton, the House of Cuomo and the House of Paterson. Would reviving the Kennedy dynasty disturb this delicate ecological balance?

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How Much Has Harvard Really Lost?

Edward Jay Epstein | Posted 01.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Harvard Endowment, Higher Education, Harvard Endowment Losses, Harvard, Economic Crisis, Business News

Harvard University's admission that it lost $8 billion from its $36 billion endowment fund, as staggering as it sounds, may grossly underestimate the true magnitude of the losses.

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Higher Education Will Struggle Through the Recession

Brian Farkas | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Professor Layoffs, America's Colleges, Budget Reductions, Non-Profit, Financial Aid, College Tuition, Williams, Harvard Endowment Losses, Harvard, Creative Writing, Wesleyan, Recession, Vassar, College, William and Mary College, Tufts University, Professors, Higher Education Economy, Adjunct Faculty, Education Institutions, College Administrators, Administrators, Financial Crisis, Arizona State, English Department, College Presidents, College Communities, Bowdoin, Politics News

Writing separate but nearly identical letters to their respective communities, countless college presidents across the county have recently admitted: "We're out of money."

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At Harvard, Obama Staff Envision Their Movement's Future

Ari Melber | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: change.gov, Mybo, Obama Web, Movement, Obama Internet, Harvard, Obama Politics, Barack Obama, Politics News

Two top organizers behind Barack Obama's campaign huddled with political techies on Wednesday, discussing the future of the Obama movement at a Harvard summit on web politics.

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How Will Colleges Survive? Schools Suffering In Crisis As Endowments Wither

Huffington Post | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Harvard Endowment, College Giving, Education, College Endowment, College, Economy, Business News, Financial Crisis, Paying for College, Harvard, Higher Education, Personal Finance, Recession, Business News

Harvard recently reported that the value of its endowment dropped $8 billion between the end of June and October of this year. At the same time, a rec...

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How Will Colleges Survive? Schools Suffering In Crisis

Huffington Post | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Harvard, Harvard University, Education, Business News, College, Paying for College, Higher Education, Personal Finance, Economy, Financial Crisis, Business News

Harvard recently reported that the value of its endowment has dropped $8 billion between the end of June through October of this year. This news is es...

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Schools Suffering In Crisis As Endowments, Donations Wither

BloggingStocks | Posted Dec 3rd 2008 12:00PM by Peter CohanFiled Under: Bad News, Economic Data, Politics, Recession, Financial Crisis | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business

Read More: College Giving, Harvard, Education, College Endowment, Harvard Endowment, College, Economy, Financial Crisis, Recession, Business News

Harvard reports that the value of its endowment has declined $8 billion between the end of June 2008 through October 2008. That would make Harvard's e...

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