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Harvard Tops U.S. News Rankings
As the Globe's Peter Schworm notes, in grandiose language, Harvard has finished second to Princeton for the last two years, but "today, order has been restored to the universe...
Bearer of Bad News
Roubini's pessimistic prognostications have won such supporters as Cabot professor of public policy Kenneth S. Rogoff; Jeffrey Sachs ’76, Ph.D. ’81...
Campaigning by Text Message
The cell phone—and, more specifically, the text message—is the next frontier for political campaigning and communication, Garrett M. Graff ’03, a former Ledecky Undergraduate...
Eye on Iran and Israel
"This autumn may be Israel's last and best chance to go after Iran's nuclear capability," Feldman wrote in the New York Times Magazine recently...
A Call for Credit-Card Disclosure
Proposed amendments to the federal Truth in Lending regulations would be a welcome change, Richard Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein argued on the Wall Street Journal opinion page last week...
Harvard gold and siler in Beijing Olympics
Harvard athletes competing in Beijing won two gold and two silver medals over the weekend...
SEAS Interim Dean Appointed
Spaepen is Franklin professor of applied physics and director of the Rowland Institute at Harvard. He previously....
Scary Superbugs
The article documents how, and why, we are losing the war against these powerful microbes. Hospitals and doctors have overused "last-resort" antibiotics, leading to...
Harvard Olympians Compete in Beijing
Nine Harvardians, including two undergraduates, will compete in the Beijing Olympic games during the next two weeks, in the sports of...
An Intimate Look at Zuckerberg and Other High-Tech Figures
Hafner writes that Lacy's "explanation of how venture capital works is instructive and clear, perhaps one of the best yet written for a general readership."
Silverglate on Obama, HLS, and that New Yorker Cover
A campaign spokesman called the cartoon "tasteless and offensive"; Silverglate, LL.B. ’67, attributes that reaction to an overblown political correctness that he traces to Obama's time at Harvard Law School (HLS)...
Harvard scientists create first disease-specific human stem cell lines
Kevin Eggan, an assistant professor of stem-cell and regenerative biology, announced in Science that he had used the technique to create...