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Financial Crisis, Faculty Perspectives: Part 2

President Drew Faust hosted a discussion on "Understanding the Crisis in the Markets: A Panel of Harvard Experts" before a full house in Sanders Theatre and a webcast audience...

Financial Crisis, Faculty Perspectives: Part 1

Harvard faculty members participated in two panel discussions this week focused on the roiling crisis in the nation's financial markets, the...

Financial Crisis, Faculty Perspectives

For detailed accounts of the panel presentations on the financial crisis...

Gore to Speak at Sustainability Celebration

The event will celebrate Harvard's past achievements, present efforts, and future goals, including President Drew Faust's commitment to cut greenhouse-gas emissions 30 percent by 2016...

Bailing Out Finance: How Will It End?

Safra professor of economics Jeremy C. Stein and University of Chicago economist Anil Kashyap outline the options, as they see them, for the federal government's promised $700-billion bailout for financial firms...

Thoughts on an Obama Win, or Loss

Klein professor of law Randall Kennedy argues that Barack Obama's nomination as a major-party candidate is a milestone in itself...

I Cook, Therefore I Am?

The "Meeting the Minds" column explores Moore professor of biological anthropology Richard Wrangham's argument that cooking food is what allowed for...

Harvard Endowment Rises 5.7 Percent to $36.9 Billion

Harvard Management Company (HMC) reported that the University's endowment had increased by $2.0 billion, or 5.7 percent, during the fiscal year ended June 30...

Facebook Profile Before First Steps?

This week's New York Times Thursday Styles section had an article about websites that let infants and toddlers set up profiles...

Tall Tales

Arianne Cohen ’03—a onetime Harvard Magazine Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow— is publishing a second book—The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life on High, which promises "a fascinating and informative look into the world of tall people"...

Allegations of lowering of academic standards and improper recruiting

See the statement issued by the Ivy League on September 3, as well as background links...

Straw and Sustainability

In “The Three Little Pigs,” the big, bad wolf huffs and puffs and easily blows down the first piglet’s straw house.

by Craig Lambert