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...vehicle to perpetuate the memory of Jackie Robinson” and “an advocate for young people with the greatest need.” Established by the wife of the legendary African-American baseball player after he died in 1973, there are currently 259 Jackie Robinson Scholars, nine of which are now at Harvard. Della Britton-Baeza, president and CEO of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, says, “Jackie Robinson [the student] sums up all the values we hope to instill in our students—commitment to community service, academic performance, musical pursuits?...
...9/11 served as a pivot point into active philanthropy. A real estate developer who calls New York City his hometown, he was particularly interested in tackling the social conditions in the Muslim world that foment support for such violent radicalism--specifically, the lack of jobs. After consulting Middle East scholar Shibley Telhami of the University of Maryland, Bruder concluded that the people most resentful of the U.S. were those who were educated but lacked employment. The time he had spent doing business in Northern Ireland confirmed Bruder's notion that the path to peace and democracy lay not in military...
...fishmeal, which is fed to farmed fish (along with fish oil, which also comes from other fish), it takes 4.5 kg (10 lbs.) of smaller pelagic, or open-ocean, fish. "Aquaculture's current heavy reliance on wild fish for feed carries substantial ecological risks," says Roz Naylor, a leading scholar on the subject at Stanford University's Center for Environmental Science and Policy. Unless the industry finds alternatives to using pelagic fish to sustain fish farms, says Naylor, the aquaculture industry could end up depleting an essential food source for many other species in the marine food chain...
Joseph S. Nye Jr., an international relations scholar at the Kennedy School and the moderator of the event, asked the panelists—Kennedy School professors Graham T. Allison, Linda J. Bilmes, Tad J. Oelstrom, Sarah Sewall, and former Rep. Clay Shaw (D-Fla.)—how many troops they each expected the next president to inherit in Iraq. None estimated that there would be fewer than 80,000 on active duty...
...Harvard, Hanzich, a resident of Leverett House, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa honor society, a John Harvard Scholar, a Detur Book Prize winner, and a finalist for the Rhodes scholarship...