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Bunga said that she believes the Congo Initiative has made considerable progress since its establishment—the group is already in cooperation with the Harvard Humanitarian Intiative, the Human Rights Center at HKS, and other organizations that work on issues related to Africa awareness...
...complete set of memories that I had only to reframe and reshape in order to treasure, I didn’t need to conform to Harvard’s culture of shopping and buying. There was no need to wrap up memories in every senior event because being human at Harvard means finding one’s interests and values while realizing the limits of time. It means giving up some events and activities to make room for others and acknowledging that what one has is valuable...
...hypothesis who were using data and simulation to predict pathological behavior in asset markets). But a data-driven, formal approach to making policy decisions is quite frankly the best we can do and therefore essential. “Embracing uncertainty” and abandoning mathematical models, while assuming that human behavior isn’t even “remotely predictable” is wrong-headed...
...This is the great human rights challenge of our generation, and in order for us to face that challenge and actually finally eradicate slavery—which I think is something we can do in a generation—it takes leaders,” said E. Benjamin Skinner, a Carr Center fellow and another research adviser. “And what better place to train leaders than Harvard University...
Five professors were named Harvard College Professors: Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics Michael P. Brenner, Slavic Languages and Literatures Professor Julie Buckler, Classics and History Professor Emma Dench, History Professor Peter E. Gordon, and Human Evolutionary Biology Professor Daniel E. Lieberman...