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NYC The Next Silicon Valley?

2012-05-28T12:12:59Z

NEW YORK — Just as a trench dug in the 1800s created a shortcut to the nation's interior and helped make New York a global trading hub, the city...

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Lisa Kaas Boyle: 17-Year-Old Wins "Date with History": An All Star Salute, Trip to Rio, and Chance to Save the World

2012-05-25T11:02:08Z

Brittany Trilford, a 17 year old school girl from Wellington, New Zealand is the winner of an international search for a person under the age of 30 to represent youth and future generations at the Earth Summit this June 20-22 in Rio De Janeiro.

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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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Richard C. Levin: Taking Responsibility

2012-05-23T08:42:03Z

Public investments were the foundation of late 19th century America's prosperity. We need to make such investments again today, both in our infrastructure as well as our people.

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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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WATCH: Comedian Raps About Life After Princeton

2012-05-21T15:50:00Z

Some might be intimidated by a woman with an Ivy League education, but one Princeton alumna is determined to set the record straight with a catchy rap...

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Google To Offer CornellNYC Tech Five Years Of Free Rent

2012-05-21T12:53:35Z

NEW YORK — Google Inc. is donating space in its New York headquarters to be used as the temporary home of the city's new applied sciences campus...

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Barbara Walters Examines Leadership With Yale Class Of 2012 (VIDEO)

2012-05-21T11:02:54Z

ABC News' Barbara Walters delivers a punchy speech to Yale's class of 2012. She discusses her experiences interviewing world leaders on the topic of l...

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Michael Hodin: Facebook's Untapped Value

2012-05-18T13:50:00Z

For years, social media was seen as a new toy for the young and hip. But as Facebook's record-setting IPO has shown, social platforms have grown far beyond their early use of documenting beer pong tournaments.

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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.

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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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Lonna Saunders: World Bank Group President-Elect Jim Yong Kim: Tackling the World's Troubles

2012-05-15T14:38:16Z

As Dartmouth's outgoing president, World Bank Group President-Elect Jim Yong Kim stressed the importance of interdisciplinary research. The need for students to engage with the rest of the world. To push beyond their comfort zone.

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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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Want To Avoid Student Debt? Think Twice About State Schools

2012-05-14T18:13:31Z

Student debt weighing on your mind? You might be surprised about where the worst of it comes from.

A recent Reuters analysis of student debt at var...

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Brown's Shifting Focus Aids Campaign

2012-05-14T10:05:09Z

Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown was the Tea Party's darling after he won Ted Kennedy's seat in a 2010 upset. ...

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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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Cornell Fraternity Suspended Over Racial Slur Incident

2012-05-09T09:49:44Z

The Sigma Pi fraternity has been placed on interim suspension following an incident in which a person or people allegedly threw bottles at black stude...

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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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Dan Reimold: Cornell Sun Accidentally Publishes Vulgarity in Final Issue

2012-05-07T17:07:03Z

A vulgar term for the female genitalia appeared late last week on the front page of The Cornell Daily Sun. An unknown prankster inserted the profane word into the paper's final issue of the semester during an end-of-the-year party.

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