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...Don’t get me wrong: America needs its fearless leaders, and Harvard graduates are justifiably trusted to fill the nation’s most influential positions. At the same time, more bids for power have been spurred by the desire for recognition than the drive to change people??s lives for the better. The result is a dearth of talent in the places where no prestige comes with it. To this end, Michelle Obama has been an inspiring example...
With a burst of firecrackers and a platter of fried rangoons, Harvard Square rang in the Year of the Ox yesterday. A group of about 50 people??accompanied by two multi-colored lions who performed a traditional lion dance—paraded from Winthrop Park on JFK St. to the Hong Kong Restaurant on Mass. Ave. The advent of the Chinese lunar calendar came on Jan. 26, but the celebration typically continues for about a week. The event was organized by the Hong Kong Restaurant and the Harvard Square Business Association. After the procession, families piled into...
...effort to “re-balance and re-engineer the organization,” reductions will include investment professionals as well as “back office” and support personnel, according to University spokesman John D. Longbrake. HMC—which currently employs more than 200 people??has faced heightened scrutiny in recent months as University officials prepare for a projected 30 percent decline in the endowment for the year ending June 30. Harvard’s endowment, valued at almost $37 billion last June, was reported to have lost over $8 billion?...
...network that needs to be accounted for,” Christakis said. The researchers developed a new model, called the “attract and introduce” model, which outperformed the previous models by including heritable traits of social networks. This new model is based on two parameters: people??s attractiveness level and their tendency to introduce their friends to one other. “The basic idea is that if people are interconnected, their healths are interconnected, if we really want to understand health, we have to understand society,” Christakis said...
...repeating loops of film. The subjects, Mary C. Potter ’11 and her father Tom Potter, were first videotaped unscripted, in their normal environment. Their dialogue was then rearranged by Bethel to create a new story. “By reflecting unrehearsed, nonfictional parts of these two people??s lives in fictionalized written and videotaped media,” Bethel said, “the fabric of their reality became something fictive, subject to the rules of analysis we apply to a novel or a film.”Further into the gallery, faint whiffs...