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Uzodinma Iweala (U-zod-din-ma EE-wall-a), a 23-year-old Harvard graduate who grew up in Washington, D.C., has written an extraordinary debut novel, Beasts of No Nation (HarperCollins), that is basking in critical acclaim. The book tells the story of Agu, a child soldier in an unnamed country in Western Africa, who has been recruited by a unit of guerrilla fighters after watching his own father being slaughtered. The author visited Nigeria, where his mother is currently the finance minister, frequently when he was growing up, and lived there last year, working with refugees. We chatted...
...Europe was struggling to emerge from the Dark Ages. As this exhibition, which runs until March, demonstrates, that's when Arab scholarship was at the height of its own Enlightenment. The show focuses on a period when the Arab empire stretched from India to Spain and caliphs, like Al-Ma'mun in Baghdad, set up centers of learning that attracted the best minds of the age. In Baghdad, around 825, Al-Khwarizmi wrote a mathematical treatise that for the first time used the word al-jabr - algebra - to describe the process of solving equations. Three Baghdad brothers produced pioneering works...
...website. Students pursuing a Harvard MBA degree pay $37,500 in tuition each year. When the cost of living and other fees are factored in, the cost is predicted to reach $66,110 per year. The news of the salary increase had little effect on business school applicant Liqian Ma ’06. “Money did not factor in my decision to apply to business school,” he said. According to Aisner, factors including challenges, mentors, and location all figure into a student’s decision to apply to business school...
...letter was, in many ways, a roll call of Harvard’s key players, with shout outs going to most (though not all) of the University’s deans as well as notable alumni involved in University projects, including Yo-Yo Ma ’76, founder of the Silk Road Project, and Frank O. Gehry, who has consulted on Harvard’s master plan for the Allston campus...
...fact, Dougherty was still living in the house he had built in Tewksbury, MA, two weeks before he died...