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...must not only “educate the mind, but also the heart,” the Dalai Lama said yesterday morning to a rapt audience at Memorial Church in a speech entitled, “Educating the Heart.” The Divinity School and the Graduate School of Education co-hosted the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, the spiritual leader of Tibet. After traditional Tibetan dance performances and introductory remarks by Divinity School Dean William A. Graham and School of Education Dean Kathleen McCartney, audience members stood in anticipation as the Dalai Lama entered the hall and proceeded...
...graduate now running for mayor of Boston. “College students are a vital part of our city, and too often they’re overlooked,” Yoon said. “They’re seen as second class citizens.” In a speech at the event, he appealed to students to join his campaign, offering positions of leadership and the opportunity to learn how campaigns function. The campaign has only collected 700 of the 3,000 signatures needed to put Yoon on the September ballot, where he would compete with four-time incumbent...
...Which makes it even more important to see enlargement as part of the solution, not the problem, argues E.U. Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn. "While combating the economic recession, we must not make E.U. enlargement a scapegoat for it," he said in a speech last month. "Questioning our commitments on E.U. enlargement will not help us at all to tackle the economic downturn. Let's keep in mind that our economic troubles are not the fault of a Serbian worker or Croatian civil servant." He may well be right. But in this gloomy economic climate, they are easy targets. And they...
President Barack Obama announced the appointment of Harvard Professor Daniel P. Schrag to serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), in a speech at the National Academy of Sciences earlier this week...
...After [Obama’s] speech it was clear that this president is committed to embracing scientific advice and truly values what science has to offer to informing his agenda,” Schrag said. “We live in a time of huge challenges and navigating through these decisions...we need good information...