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...Harvard undergraduates would be endowed with a uniting principle. Gone would be the days of the extant Core’s cornucopia of obscurities, masquerading as “modes of inquiry” somehow relevant and necessary to our liberal education. No more “Lit & Arts B-48: Chinese Imaginary Space.” No more “Science B-57: Dinosaurs and their Relatives.” Instead, our general education would be one of purpose, designed to nurture urbane critical thinkers equipped to make sense of the modern world.But this devoutly-wished consummation...
...Food Network yesterday taped an episode of its hit television show “Throwdown with Bobby Flay” in Joanne B. Chang ’91’s Boston bakery, holding a cook-off between Chang and celebrity chef Flay that was judged in part by Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS)’s top chef...
...Outside the Box: New Corporate Structures, Tax Policy and Public Policy for 21st-Century Social Enterprises,” was moderated by Kennedy School professor and former presidential advisor David R. Gergen and included a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner, a former mayor of Indianapolis, and philanthropist Catherine B. Reynolds, who founded Loan to Learn, a major student loan business. The event’s discussion focused on the blurring of the lines between non- and for-profit organizations providing social services—such as student loans and healthcare—and the need for regulation and transparency...
...Presidential hopeful Barack Obama formulates his economic platform before intensive campaigning begins this summer, he is turning to the Harvard faculty for advice. The Illinois Democrat has sought the help of David M. Cutler ’87, the Eckstein professor of applied economics, as well as Jeffrey B. Liebman, the Wiener professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Obama, a 1991 graduate of Harvard Law School, is also receiving economic advice from Austin Goolsbee, a professor at the University of Chicago. Obama’s links to the professors were reported in The Wall Street Journal...
...Thomas B. Becker, the student who donned the black hood, said that his costume was designed to draw attention to the protest and referred to controversial U.S. detention practices at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba...