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...Senior Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith said that technology research has declined since 2000 because the current administration is not focused on supporting basic research in the sciences. “Most of our company’s best innovations started out as basic research in our nation??s research universities,” Smith said. At the same time, Smith said, other countries are superseding the U.S. in technology growth because they have learned from American advances. The speech, held in Ames Courtroom, was co-sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society...
...student group—said the committee has the support of Dean Elena Kagan, who reversed course last month and said that military recruiters would once again have access to the school’s Office of Career Services.The Solomon Amendment has sparked debate at a number of the nation??s law schools, due to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which prevents openly gay individuals from serving. A case challenging the amendment’s constitutionality—Rumsfeld v. FAIR?...
...with the British pornography site Booble.com, whose homepage replaced the two trademarked slanted “o’s” with, well, things that aren’t letters. After Google complained, Booble changed its presentation.More recently, Google proposed to scan several thousand books from the nation??s most prestigious institutions, including Harvard, to create a virtual library. Recalling his chat with the founders, Sidney Verba ’53, Carl H. Pforzheimer Uniersity Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library. had serious doubts over handling massive amounts of such delicate material...
...order to kill. “You want to be a soldier enh? Well—kill him. KILL HIM NOW!”This sort of guttural visceral action characterizes the majority of Uzodinma Iweala ’04’s “Beasts of No Nation??; the rapturously reviewed debut novel is the story of Agu, a child soldier in an unnamed African country. “Beasts” was originally written as a creative thesis in Harvard’s English Department under the guidance of Visiting Lecturer on African American Studies...
...student-led recitals even more stimulating, and decided his true passion lay in performance. Wolff trekked to Paris immediately after graduation to study conducting with Charles Bruck. He returned to the U.S. for graduate school and a 12-year stint leading the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minneapolis, the nation??s only full-time professional chamber orchestra. The conductor’s penchant for continent-hopping never faded. In 2000, Wolff moved his family to London and became a denizen of the international terminal; for five years, Wolff commuted from England to Germany to serve as Chief Conductor...