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As chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Orrin Hatch yields significant influence over the future direction of the U.S. Supreme Court, but the Utah Republican told a packed audience at the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) on Monday night that hes determined to keep politics out of it.

The NFLs Cleveland Browns have signed Harvard All-America offensive tackle Mike Clare 01 to a free agent contract. Clares signing gives Harvard six players who have signed professional football contracts in the last four years.

Freshman Sara Williamson doubled in the bottom of the seventh to drive in the winning run of a 5-4 decision against Boston University this past Tuesday afternoon at Harvards Soldiers Field. The loss ended an 18-game win streak for the Terriers, while extending the Crimsons run to a season-high five games. With the win, the…

With electronic privacy becoming more difficult to attain for everyone from governments to lovers, the need for an unbreakable code is rising rapidly toward the top of many most wanted lists. Michael Rabin, the Thomas J. Watson Sr. Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, says he has come up with the solution: a code…

Ask yourself why paper currency is still engraved, and you will stumble into the exacting and elegant realm of the repeatable image. The query will take you back at least 150 years, to a time when engraving was an immensely popular printmaking technique. So much so, in fact, that in the 19th century the term…

The present and future presidents of the University were honored in the nations capital this week. President Neil L. Rudenstine and incoming president, Lawrence H. Summers, were honored at a luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, April 24. Hosting the event were Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), Congresswoman Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.) and Harvards…

A memorial service for Seymour S. Kety, Harvard Medical School professor of neuroscience emeritus, will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 10, at the Memorial Church. A reception…

At its 13th meeting of the year, the Council discussed a proposed new “Certification and Disclosure Statement” for researchers applying for or receiving support from the National Science Foundation and…

John Mich is doubly gifted. Not only does he know a lot about art, but he knows what he likes. So, when someone in the Harvard Information Office mentioned that the office needed a new coloring book, Mich, assistant director for events and operations of the Office of News and Public Affairs, knew just where…

Senior Peggy T. Lim has been selected winner of this years Harvard College Womens Leadership Award for showing exceptional leadership, contributing to womens advancement, and positively affecting the lives of her fellow students.

Richard Evans Schultes, the Edward C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology Emeritus and renowned expert on medicinal uses of plants, died April 10 in Boston at age 86.

The Harvard Alumni Association is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2001 Harvard Medal: Samuel C. Butler ’51, LL.B. ’54, Victor Kwok-King Fung Ph.D. ’71, and Myra A. Mayman.…

O’Connor to give Lowell Lecture Thomas H. O’Connor, the prolific author and Boston historian, will deliver the annual Lowell Lecture on Tuesday, May 1, at 8 p.m. at Hall C…

Walk around and look at everything. Touch things and move things and whatever. Kitty Pechet wants visitors to her studio to experience the artwork to the fullest. Theres a lot to see. Colorful horses canter across a canvas at one end of the huge, bright space and a wash of monochromatic waves is frozen, unfinished…

Many of the yoga classes around today seem designed more to torture you than to help you reach nirvana. The warrior pose, the downward-facing dog, and the extended side-angle pose are nothing in comparison to the really advanced postures, the hard-core twists and bends and joint-crushing coils that most people would need several lifetimes to…

Medicine seems to offer a wider field for fruitful research on a definitely scientific basis.

Former FDA chair talks about fighting the good fight

The William S. Kaden Endowment at Harvard University Health Services was established by the Harvard Business School (HBS) to honor the extraordinary commitment and dedication of William Kaden to the Harvard community. Kaden served as a physician and director of HBS Health Services for more than 35 years, before his retirement in 2000.

The Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History has announced the recipients of its 2001-02 fellowships. The fellows, who will come to Harvard from faculty positions at other institutions to spend a sabbatical year writing and conducting research, will concentrate on this years core theme, Exceptional By Nature?: American Science and Medicine, 1500-1900.

Approximately 50 students entered Massachusetts Hall on the Harvard University campus yesterday (April 18) demanding a mandatory wage floor for all persons who work on the Harvard campus – whether employed by Harvard or by outside service providers, and whether represented by unions through the collective bargaining process or not.

Bhumi, the Harvard International Development Group, has announced the selection of three Harvard University students to spend the summer abroad as interns. The Bhumi Internship Committee, consisting of Harvard administrators and Bhumi members, selected the three interns from a pool of 22 applicants. The interns will work with small, grassroots nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Malaysia,…

When Mather House Co-Master Leigh Hafrey acted on the idea to turn the Houses once-bleak common space into a vibrant art gallery, neither he nor the gallerys principal players had any idea that their creation would become a focal point for heated debate about the role of art in public spaces.

The University Center for Ethics and the Professions, one of Harvards first interfaculty initiatives, has received a bequest, estimated at $12 million, from the estate of the late Lester Kissel JD 31. The bequest will be used to establish the Lester Kissel Presidential Fund for Ethics, the income from which will support part of the…

The Harvard baseball team wrapped up a four-game series against Yale with a pair of wins this past Saturday (April 14), after splitting a doubleheader a day earlier. The Crimson finished the homestand weekend with three consecutive victories, good for a 3-1 mark.

People with heart disease who consume an average of 14 alcoholic drinks a week appear less likely to die from a heart attack than nondrinkers. Low to moderate drinking is also associated with a lower risk of heart failure among older people.