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Harvard’s past ties to the slave trade are comparatively small but exist nonetheless, according to Andrew B. Schlesinger ’70, a historian who has written about Harvard...
Racial disparities in health care exist even in high-quality health care plans, says a study by researchers at Harvard and Brown medical schools published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The findings are significant because they reveal more than just an overall racial discrepancy—which has been well documented—but also discrepancies within the same health care plans. “Other studies have focused on whether white and African-American patients are equally likely to receive simple blood tests,” said co-author John Z. Ayanian, associate professor...
...they are accused of sectarian killings], while the Mahdi Army has been drawn into the police force in some parts of the country - but they tend to be incorporated in ways that retain their militia identity. The calculation of the U.S. and Maliki last summer was correct: The militias exist because Shi'ites feel insecure. And that feeling of insecurity has been deliberately provoked and reinforced by Sunni insurgents who have targeted Shi'ites. The Shi'ites are tired of getting blown up, and they believe that if they arm themselves and set up checkpoints in their neighborhood, they...
...Medieval Studies committee member and Goelet Professor of Medieval History Michael McCormick, the lecture was an opportunity for Harvard to further cultivate its medieval archaeology studies. The first course in this subject at Harvard was taught last fall. “Medieval archaeology doesn’t really exist in America,” McCormick said, “Harvard’s led the world and the nation in so many disciplines, why not lead the nation in the study of medieval archeology too.” Carver, who garnered fame for his 10-year excavation of the medieval...
...know we exist at all? Are chemicals in our brains busy at work, creating consciousness...