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...smart,” David joked in the video, adding that if Law School Dean Elena Kagan ever witnessed Dershowitz playing poker, she would fire him because of his lackluster skill. The majority of the event—held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston??was dedicated to poking fun at the 67-year-old Dershowitz, but the dinner also had its more serious moments as friends and colleagues praised the celebrity attorney and veteran law professor. In a letter written by Clinton and recited aloud by a presenter, the former president commended Dershowitz...
Although members of the medical community have struggled in recent years to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescription, a study released yesterday by members of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Boston??s Brigham and Women’s Hospital concluded that physicians are still prescribing antibiotics unnecessarily to patients with sore throats. The study centered on the frequency of administering strep throat antibiotic to children and the frequency of testing for strep. According to one of the authors, Grace M. Lee ’93, an instructor of ambulatory care and prevention at HMS, the study is responding...
Summers wrote extensively, though only in broad terms, about the University’s expansion into Boston??s Allston neighborhood, by far the most ambitious project of his presidency. Committing to a rough timetable, Summers wrote that the first phase of development in Allston was “likely to be carried out over the next 10 to 15 years,” which could amount to the remainder of Summers’ tenure, if he serves as long as many of his predecessors...
...players will arrive at Harvard this weekend for the 2005 U.S. Open Squash Tournament. It’s the first time that the Open, which will take place at the Crimson’s Murr Center Nov. 4-8, will be held at Harvard. It has taken place at Boston??s Symphony Hall for the past three years. The Harvard squash teams’ traditional home in the Murr Center now includes the 13 glass-backed courts and one four-sided glass feature court, in addition to a temporary 700-seat squash arena located on the indoor tennis...
...agreed that from tornadoes to blizzards, weather around New England has always been strange. New England’s great hurricane of 1938 uprooted 750 million trees, killed 620 people, and killed 750,000 chickens, among other casualties, Emanuel said. He also noted a variety of other peculiarities in Boston??s weather. The world record windspeed of 234 miles per hour was set at Mount Washington, which is about 100 miles from Boston. A tornado that hit Worcester, Mass. in 1953 killed 70 people in one minute. And in the year 1816, there was no summer. Given...