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Jonathan D. Moreno: Harvard's Experiment on the Unabomber, Class of '62

2012-05-25T12:08:27Z

The news that Ted Kaczynski was included in the 50th anniversary alumni directory has roiled the class reunion. Better known via his nom de plume (or ...

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Christine Horansky: When Hogwarts Came to Harvard: Real Life Villains and the Universal Power of Imagination

2012-05-24T17:18:49Z

What universal appeal might the story of Harry Potter, with its young upstart wizards and Dark Lord, have for the real struggles of so many people around the globe?

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Matt Bieber: How America Can Avoid Ending Up Like the Roman Empire

2012-05-24T13:59:56Z

Timothy Patrick McCarthy is core faculty and director of the Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at...

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Unabomber Lists '8 Life Sentences' As Awards In Alumni Profile

2012-05-23T16:54:27Z

Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, wanted to make sure his fellow Harvard University alumni knew what he has been up to.

In an alumni re...

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Jeff Selingo: An Alternative Admissions Path to Elite Colleges?

2012-05-22T12:14:26Z

When Harvard and MIT announced that they would offer online courses free to the masses, they pledged $60 million to the effort. All for courses that, for now, won't bring in a penny in tuition revenue.

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Tony Wagner: 'Creating Innovators'

2012-05-17T17:10:18Z

In more than one hundred and fifty interviews for this book -- lengthy conversations with scores of innovators and their parents, teachers, and mentors -- passion was the most frequently recurring word.

Read more: Early Childhood Development, Montessori, Steve Jobs Quotes, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Montessori School, Childhood Development, Malcolm Gladwell, Entreprenuership, Mit, Harvard University, College News

The Harvard Crimson: Finally, Mr. President

2012-05-17T09:38:00Z

Despite occasional setbacks like what occurred in North Carolina on Tuesday, it is clear that the direction of cultural shift is toward marriage equality in America.

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Where Did Fortune 500 CEOs Go To College?

2012-05-15T10:26:21Z

If you want to be a Fortune 500 CEO, we have a couple pieces of advice. First, don't be like Scott Thompson, who lost his gig at Yahoo when it was rev...

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What Facebook's America-Ditching Co-Founder Owes America

2012-05-12T23:39:25Z

When Eduardo Saverin was 13, his family discovered that his name had turned up on a list of victims to be kidnapped by Brazilian gangs. Saverin’s fa...

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David Boone: Heading to Harvard

2012-05-11T09:03:31Z

After getting my acceptances, I immediately called my mother and told her the great news. In the middle of her Bible class, she jumped up and down and cried tears of joy.

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Zoe P. Strassfield: Space Means Business? Space: The Business Frontier at Harvard Business School

2012-05-08T16:58:20Z

I'd never heard of a space conference for business majors before. How exactly would students in BU's School of Management or the equivalent elsewhere explore space?

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John Tepper Marlin: Splendor in the Glass -- Harvard's 375th in NYC

2012-05-07T15:42:47Z

Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard's 28th President and its first woman president, was in New York City on May 3 to celebrate Harvard's 375th year and reconnect with alumni.

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Matt Weber: General Education

2012-05-08T12:24:25Z

General Colin Powell is arguably one of our nation's most respected public servants. He is a diplomat, a general, yet also a lifelong educator and proponent of schools and student successes through America's Promise Alliance.

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Cities To Ivies: We Desperately Need Your Money

2012-05-07T15:01:07Z

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Wary of tax increases, weary of layoffs and determined to avoid bankruptcy, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras had only to gaze u...

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Jean Fain, L.I.C.S.W., M.S.W.: Self-Compassion Expert Chris Germer on Lessons Learned From the Dalai Lama

2012-05-04T12:58:30Z

Every now and then, you meet someone who changes your world. For me, that most recent someone is a remarkably wise and compassionate colleague, Christopher Germer.

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Michael Roth: Beyond Information Transfer: An Initiation Into Lifelong Learning

2012-05-04T10:47:07Z

Our campuses should be places where diversity leads to learning as students come to see differences among people as a deep resource for solving problems and seeking opportunities. Online education can complement this educational environment. But it does not replace the need for it.

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Margaret Weigel: 5 Ideas for EdX, Harvard and MIT's New Online Initiative

2012-05-03T10:53:31Z

While MIT has offered free access to course materials through its OpenCourseWare project for over a decade, Harvard's participation suggests that this model of free pedagogical content is finally a mainstream endeavor.

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Can Sleeping Improve School Performance?

2012-05-03T00:00:01Z

In high school, Melissa Edwards woke up at 6:30 a.m. to catch a bus. It was dark, she was tired and the school's 7:15 a.m. morning bell forced the St....

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Harvard, MIT Announce Online Learning Project

2012-05-02T12:19:42Z

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined forces to offer free online courses in a project aimed at a...

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Harvard, MIT Announce Free Online Courses

2012-05-02T12:15:00Z

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON, May 2 (Reuters) - Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both academic heavyweights and...

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Matt Bieber: What Is College For? An Interview With the New Yorker 's Louis Menand

2012-05-02T11:40:29Z

Louis Menand's book The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University asks hard questions about whether higher education's historical goals and structures are well-suited for today's world.

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Robin Koerner: Paradigm Lost: Why the rEVOLution Has Not Been Televised

2012-05-01T16:19:05Z

To those who care about such things, the silence of the media about the extraordinary events around Ron Paul's campaign is deafening.

Some see conspi...

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Jessica Cohen: Fast Food and a Formidable Dream: How 10 Young Entrepreneurs Earned their Way to Harvard University

2012-05-01T10:55:04Z

I find myself reflecting back on the whirlwind adventure that this current year of teaching NFTE has been. And to think, it all started with fast food and a formidable dream...

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Daneesha Murrain: Students Who Mean Business Go to Harvard

2012-05-01T10:40:29Z

Taking the NFTE Business Class at my high school, I have become an entrepreneur. Recently, my class took a trip to Harvard to sit in an actual graduate business class. It further fueled my own determination continue with my own business.

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Zoe P. Strassfield: Inquiring Minds Want to Know! Attending the 2012 Cambridge Science Festival

2012-04-30T18:18:38Z

While I'm incredibly sore that I couldn't be in New York today to see the Space Shuttle Enterprise arrive aboard NASA's carrier jet, living in Boston has allowed me to enjoy some first-rate experiences. The single luckiest event so far would have to be the Cambridge Science Festival.

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