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...Petros Clerides told Time. Sad - and typical. For 32 years, ever since an Athens-backed coup d'état triggered renewed fighting between Greek and Turkish Cypriots and provided the Turkish army with a pretext to invade, the island has been divided. In the south, 80% of Greek ethnic origin, is the Republic of Cyprus; the north of the island is under the control of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, recognized only by Turkey. There is no direct cooperation between the two sets of authorities, who for all practical purposes refuse to recognize the jurisdiction of each other. Efforts...
...Census Bureau reported that people of Hispanic origin represented 8.2 percent of all U.S. citizens but only 6 percent of actual voters. Voter turnout was 47.2 percent among registered Hispanic voters, lower than every demographic except for Asians...
Brigham and Women’s Hospital—a major teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School—announced yesterday a partnership in research that will investigate the genetic origin of serious diseases in women. The hospital will team up with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a branch of the National Institute of Health (NIH), and Amgen, a Fortune 500 human therapeutics company, on the Women’s Genome Health Study. Over the past decade, 28,000 initially healthy American women have been monitored. Genetic samples from each of the women will undergo a comprehensive...
Although classes did not begin until two years later and the College was not baptized until 1638, the date Harvard celebrates its origin is the day it got 400 pounds rather than the day it got its name...
There is much to praise in the new Report of the Committee on General Education. It is original, thoughtful, and well-written, and reflects considerable work on the part of our colleagues on the Task Force on General Education. The entire Harvard community should be grateful for the progress they have made and the issues they have asked us to address. I have two reservations, however. The final report will attract wide attention in academia and in the press, where it will be read not for its specific recommendations, but as a once-in-a-generation statement on the nature...