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Jamila Newton, one of the organizers of the symposium and a second-year graduate student in Harvard’s Genetics and Genomics Training Program (GGTP), said that although genetic testing provides benefits to research for prevention and treatment, preventative eugenics shouldn’t be the foremost focus of the scientific community...
Best way for a guy to get your attention: Be friendly, be real. I’m not looking for the most dashing guy around town. First and foremost, I’m looking for a friend...
Hoxby is exactly the type of young and dynamic academic star that Harvard’s faculty and administration value so highly. She has quickly established herself as one of the world’s foremost experts on the economics of education. Tenured just seven years after receiving her Ph.D., Hoxby is only the second woman to receive tenure in the Department of Economics and the first to successfully rise through the ranks here at Harvard...
...Rhetoric and Oratory Jorie Graham seemed reluctant to begin reading her newest work before an audience of scholars, students, and Cantabrigians last Friday night in the Adams House Common Room. Although she is one of Harvard’s foremost poets, the esteemed writer appeared nervous, slightly fidgety and out of breath, explained as a result of the presence of many colleagues and friends. While clutching her necklace, she dove headlong into reading six poems of her intensely personal and most recent book, Overlord...
...British repression of Mau Mau was an act of injustice—but not a genocide. First and foremost, Mau Mau was not an ethnic group—although it was an almost entirely Kikuyu uprising—and sometimes Elkins intermingles the two terms. There was never any shortage of Kikuyu loyalists willing to point fingers at Mau Mau, and the British were always pleased to promote these Kikuyu to the highest position any African could attain. Moreover, membership in Mau Mau unambiguously hinged on a specific induction oath that created an ideological distinction within a larger ethnic community...