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Each year the Heinz Awards go to 10 headliners in a wide variety of disciplines - the arts and humanities, public policy, science and economics - ranging from writers like Dave Eggers to doctors like Paul Farmer. "We wanted to identify people who were full of promise," says Teresa Heinz, who created the awards after her then husband, Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz, died in a helicopter crash in 1991. "We wanted to continue John's work...
...need a system of checks-and-balances. 7) While many can appreciate the effort to re-guild the walls of Adams dining hall, we’d rather be able to sit down to a hot breakfast. Eat the gold dome we cannot. 6) We can get drunk in public without spending thousands to have Sarah Bareilles serenade us with the one song we know. Half of us didn’t make it to Yardfest anyhow. And the other half probably don’t remember it. 5) Folklore and Mythology department. Sanskrit. All departments with less than...
Just last year alone, 872 students enrolled in Professor Michael Sandel’s legendary course, Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice.” But now that Harvard’s most popular class has been made into a public television series of 12 episodes on WGBH, there’s no telling how much larger its “enrollment” will be this season. And while the introduction of the new show “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” makes it easier to get a more...
...best thing about this new television program is that, with it, Harvard has shared some of its incredible academic resources with the rest of the world and has invited the public to join its unique academic community. Just as “Justice” itself urges students to reconsider their beliefs and approaches to action, it is good to see Harvard open its long-closed gates in dialogue with the local and national communities...
...scandal's flames. Tarantini's testimony included rich details of up to 30 young women he brought to 18 different parties at Berlusconi's residences. Some newspapers compared the dates in the testimony with their own archives and found that on several occasions Berlusconi had opted out of public appearances, presumably to enjoy the company of "beautiful women," as he himself has admitted to. Still, the testimony was nothing earth-shattering and indeed backed up Berlusconi's declaration that he thought the women were simply "friends" of Tarantini...