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Celebrating the University's birthday with a flurry of scholarship is not a new Harvard tradition. In 1936, the 300th birthday party included 10 seminars on high-brow academic subjects. The sessions, by noted European scholars and for other scholars, lasted up to two weeks...
This time, however, academics won't be the only ones listening to winged-words at the symposia. The 350th birthday seminars will star members of the Harvard faculty, not outside specialists, and are aimed primarily at interested, intelligent laymen rather than other experts...
...rally, organized by a combination of Harvard and community groups, which call themselves the "350th Divestment Coalition," culminated in a candlelight march to the Charles River, where Harvard's 350th birthday bash had already begun...
...Watergate Hotel, in an intimate setting named for him, Jean-Louis. He is a master at game and sweetbread dishes, and his soups and sauces based on purees of sweet peppers are seductively silken. Such enticing food enthralled an audience that included President Reagan, who celebrated his 70th birthday at Jean-Louis and thanked the chef for immigrating...
...Ammar in 1962, the Tunisian press called it a "love match." Over the years, the pair had frequent clashes, after which she would depart the presidential palace for extended sulks abroad. One such absence was expected to end early this month on the occasion of Bourguiba's 83rd birthday, but Wassila, now 74, failed to turn...