Nation & World
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Alone in the spotlight but not alone
Cognitive neurologist sees lessons in age-focused conversations around Biden’s exit, but also a lack of nuance
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The way forward for Democrats — and the country
Danielle Allen is more worried about identity politics and gaps in civic education than the power of delegates
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What the judge was thinking and what’s next in Trump documents case
Obama-era White House counsel says key point in Nixon decision should have ended inquiry
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What’s the point of kids?
New book explores history, philosophy of having children and shifting attitudes in 21st century
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Boston busing in 1974 was about race. Now the issue is class.
School-reform specialist examines mixed legacy of landmark decision, changes in demography, hurdles to equity in opportunity
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History of Chichén Itzá written in DNA
Research using new method upends narrative on ritual sacrifices, yields discovery on resistance built to colonial-era epidemics
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Dream works
Two former mayors from other nations recount how they took over troubled cities and installed controversial but effective measures to solve urban problems and re-engage the public.
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An orphanage regroups
The family of a Harvard undergraduate in Haiti struggles to provide food, shelter, and safety to their orphanage complex there.
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Judging the campaign finance ruling
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling striking down corporate limits on campaign financing, several Harvard faculty members weigh in on what the ruling means and where it’s likely to lead.
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Relief for Haitian city
Putting aside their winter-break activities, an ad-hoc Harvard relief team in the Dominican Republic helps to ship boatloads of relief supplies to the coastal Haitian city of Jacmel.
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Students help Haiti
When the massive earthquake hit Haiti, a group of Harvard students working on a water purification project in the Dominican Republic switched gears to help transport supplies across the border.
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Medical workers gain momentum
Harvard-affiliated doctors report on carnage, rescue operations in quake-ravaged Haiti, as medical teams gain traction.
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Harvard mobilizes relief fund
Assistance mobilizes to aid earthquake-shaken Haiti, including groups of experts and medical personnel affiliated with Harvard.
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Timely course
Why do societies and their governments fail so often to act in time to avert crises that appear in plain sight? What can be done to alter that pattern? Those questions served as impetus for a new intensive January session course, “Acting in Time,” at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).
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Harvard responds to Haiti crisis
A catastrophic earthquake in Haiti Tuesday (Jan. 12) has prompted a rapid-fire response of broad-based medical and humanitarian assistance from Harvard and its affiliates.
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A new system for measuring poverty
HKS researchers present new calculus for comparing poverty levels and changes over time, and between countries. The authors say the U.S. “war on poverty” produced significant gains in the 1990s compared with the ’80s.
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HKS receives $20.5M for Asia studies
Harvard Kennedy School receives $20.5 million gift to start program and institute pointed at key issues confronting rapidly growing Asian countries.
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The Cold War observed
Medical sociologist Mark G. Field, a specialist in Soviet health systems, uses a final Harvard seminar to recall a 20th century life in war, Cold War, peace, and scholarship.
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When the economy crashes
Harvard Business School exhibit examines “Bubbles, Panics, and Crashes: A Century of Financial Crises, 1830s-1930s.”
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Ties that bind
To celebrate the 800th anniversary of the founding of the University of Cambridge, Gordon Johnson, the institution’s deputy vice chancellor, gave a talk about the import of universities in society.
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Assessing Obama’s Afghan plan
A Kennedy School panel discusses and debates President Obama’s plan to add 30,000 troops to Afghanistan to try to stabilize that nation and allow American troops to begin withdrawing in 2011.
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Young people polled
In a poll conducted by the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, nearly half of young Americans said that the economy is the national issue that concerns them most, more than double the next-highest issue, health care.
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Citizen spies, spied-on citizens
An exhibit of Czech secret-police photos from the Communist era, at Harvard through Dec. 21, shows Big Brother as unintentional artist.
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Writers at Risk
A Harvard instructor, concerned about literary artists threatened overseas, proposes Writers at Risk, an academic harbor.
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Drawing attention
Jytte Klausen, author and research associate at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, explored the cartoon controversy over depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper in 2005, offering her take on the unrest chronicled in her new book, “The Cartoons that Shook the World.”
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Lessons from Afghanistan
Kevin Kit Parker, U.S. Army major and bioengineering professor, offers a “ground-truth” description of how the war is being fought in Afghanistan, and a personal assessment of the challenges faced by U.S. forces.
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Harvard, University of Johannesburg join forces
Education is a force for liberation, President Drew Faust told an audience Thursday (Nov. 26) at the University of Johannesburg at Soweto, where she announced that Harvard and the host university were developing an initiative to train school principals in some of South Africa’s most desperate regions.
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President Faust in Africa
Harvard President Drew Faust saw firsthand how Harvard is helping the African nation of Botswana to fight AIDS, when she toured facilities in two communities where a Harvard-Botswana partnership is operating anti-AIDS programs.
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God and Walmart
Author and scholar Bethany Moreton examines the success of the discount retail chain Walmart and its Christian corporate ethos.
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Standing at center-right in America
Norman Coleman Jr. states his case: America is a center-right nation, and the party that understands that wins elections.
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Cochran at 100
The Harvard Statistics Department marked the centennial birth year of one of its founding members, William Gemmell Cochran, with a symposium celebrating his landmark scholarship.
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Forty years young
In an interview, HGSE Lecturer Joe Blatt, Ed.M. ’77, director of the Technology, Innovation, and Education program, shares his thoughts on the amazing success of “Sesame Street” and its impact on education — and on the Ed School.
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Pelosi touts health care bill
U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi spoke at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on the passage of the health care bill by her side of Congress.
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Spitzer calls for financial oversight
Former governor of New York and Harvard Law School alumnus Eliot Spitzer returned to campus to offer his perspective on the topic of institutional corruption.