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...sights set solely on the star-studded hills of Hollywood, the glistening skyscrapers of Wall Street, or the marble powerhouses of Washington, D.C.Kenneth E. Reeves ’72, a History and Literature concentrator from Mather House, decided to devote his career instead to the city of his alma mater. Last month, his fellow city councillors appointed him mayor of Cambridge.A city councillor since 1989, Reeves previously served as mayor of Cambridge between 1992 and 1995. He was the nation’s first mayor to be both African American and openly gay.Cambridge’s Plan E form...

Author: By Anna M. Friedman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Harvard Man In The Mayor’s Seat | 2/23/2006 | See Source »

Isn’t Harvard a wonderful place? We have waffles with alma mater seals, Professor Sandel, gates that invite you to “grow in wisdom,” and, of course, a deep commitment to equal opportunity. That last ideal, in particular, permeates every aspect of campus policy, from need-blind admissions to anonymous grading. But few initiatives are as important as one undertaken by the Accessible Education Office...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Sally’s Struggle | 2/17/2006 | See Source »

...Horowitz’s 101 “most dangerous,” Cambridge is. MIT linguist Noam Chomsky made the list.The profiles are a varied lot, but most of the professors work in either the humanities or social sciences. Columbia University, Horowitz’s alma mater, was the home of the single greatest share of “most dangerous” professors—nine in all.Horowitz said the absence of Harvard professors in the listing was not intentional, admitting he put the book together “fairly swiftly?...

Author: By Benjamin J. Salkowe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Author Lists ‘Most Dangerous’ Profs | 2/16/2006 | See Source »

...Perkins, venture capitalist and newly minted author, recently spoke with The Crimson over the telephone about his book “Sex and the Single Zillionaire.” The Harvard Business School alum will be donating all the profits from the book to his alma mater...

Author: By Yan Zhao, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pillow Talk With Perkins | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

...University President Lawrence H. Summers had visited his alma mater Friday, he might have picked up some pointers from the annual Charm School at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The institution may be famous for multiplying stem cells and refining fish censors, but when it comes to charm, MIT has some answers too: bowties are a “simple topology problem” and networking is really “social calculus...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Etiquette School? How Charming! | 2/6/2006 | See Source »

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