Word: halle
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Partners in Health founder Paul E. Farmer drew a standing-room-only crowd to Langdell Hall at the Law School last night for a conversation about methods to help save children’s lives in Rwanda. Farmer, a professor of medical anthropology at the Medical School, has won international acclaim for his work with HIV/AIDs and tuberculosis in some of the poorest countries of the world. Farmer delivered the lecture on aiding youth with Dai Ellis, the founder of Orphans of Rwanda, a non-profit organization that helps young people affected by the 1994 Rwandan genocide attain a university...
...Veronica Rudge Green Prize winner for their Seattle-based project, the Olympic Sculpture Park. As Manfredi says, the project is “something radical.” The Graduate School of Design (GSD) is currently exhibiting material related to the project in the lobby of Gund Hall. And something radical it is. It is a landscape built over existing infrastructure, including highways and train tracks, and the new, Z-shaped Olympic Sculpture Park brings together city and nature. According to Manfredi, “One of the fantastic things about the site is that there are two primary views...
...foreshadow a corresponding care for drama in the new Cambridge. Puritanical conservatism, academic mores, and general structural lapses have hampered dramatic life at Harvard from its origins up to the present day.Yet all hope is not lost. With a renewed interest in the arts emanating from Massachusetts Hall and mirrored in the English department and American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), the time may have come for Harvard to finally reconcile its nearly 400-year struggle with the dramatic arts. Perhaps most significantly, students can now gain academic recognition for dramatic arts, through a new Secondary Field. As Homi K. Bhabha, professor...
...Things in New Hampshire are going better than McCain expected, but he doesn't quite seem to believe it. The morning after an especially crowded and ebullient town hall in Manchester, reporters pressed him for an assessment of his chances. He mentioned his bracing upset of George Bush here in 2000 with a degree of caution that verged on dread: "I'm sure it's wishful thinking, but we think we might kind of be sensing what we felt in December...
...between the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, their supporters at Harvard sharpened their teeth in a practice debate of their own. And just as in the upcoming Univision debate, Tom Tancredo was not represented. Advocates of six Republican contenders pitched their candidates in a debate held in Sever Hall last night. Bucking the national trend, Rep. Ron Paul (R.-Texas) drew the greatest support. Of the roughly thirty students in attendance, half were cheering for the libertarian congressman. The chair of Harvard Students for Ron Paul, Pedro L. Teixeira Jr. '09 drew sustained applause when he defended Paul against...