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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dispute during an externally-sponsored event on the prospects for Chinese democracy caused the Harvard University Police Department to remove audience member Wei Chaoyong, a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, from the Fong Auditorium yesterday evening. The event featured Szeto Wah, a prominent Chinese dissident and the Chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movement of China, who said that the international community would be mistaken to think that the country’s communist government was moving towards a more democratic society. “On the surface, the Chinese Communist government...

Author: By Manning Ding, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chinese Dissident Szeto Talks Of Democracy | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...Core Curriculum into thematic General Education areas. Moreover, as Etienne Benson, a graduate student who chairs Harvard’s animal history group, notes, the multidisciplinary nature of animal studies fosters dialogue. At a recent meeting of the group, Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Darwin scholar Janet Browne engaged with MIT cultural historian Harriet Ritvo on the history of sheep domestication in England...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Animal Studies at Harvard | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

...professor Stanley Hoffmann, a former student of Beer’s. “[The current professors] were all preempted by the master, who spoke without notes, remembering everyone and everything. No one believed the man was 96 years old at the time.”Beer, a noted scholar of British and American politics, passed away on April 7, at the age of 97. “He was a spectacularly good teacher because his classes were all in the form of questions he addressed to himself and his students, for which he had all sorts of arguments before...

Author: By Huma N. Shah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sam Beer, Legendary Gov Prof, Dies at 97 | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

...time this season. On the men’s side, freshman Nico Weiler won the pole vault event, clearing 5.20 meters and setting a new HYOC match record. A familiar face to the Crimson was also on hand to compete Friday. Clara Blattler ‘08, a Rhodes Scholar and former standout women’s pole vaulter for Harvard, represented Oxford in the match, and placed first in the pole vault event with a clearance of 3.50 meters. Friday’s performance not only gave the Crimson athletes a chance to hone their skills on the track...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: British Foes Unite Rivals | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...column that allows searchers to refine searches based on topic, format, language, and genre. “The Web search arena has been experiencing major changes,” said Robinson of the need for the modifications. “Search engines like Google Book Search and Google Scholar were gaining attention, and we felt that our online catalogue was looking antiquated.” The new system takes advantage of social-networking Web site features, such as options to tag items and write reviews, in an attempt to make the HOLLIS network more user-friendly, Robinson said...

Author: By Huma N. Shah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HOLLIS Unveils New Search Interface | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

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