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...recipients include Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, a drop-out of Harvard College; former University President Lawrence H. Summers; former Harvard Corporation member Conrad K. Harper; Harvard history professor Daniel Aaron; British astronomer S. Jocelyn Bell Burnell; philosopher Richard M. Rorty; Celtics star center Bill Russell; gender historian Joan W. Scott; New York Review of Books founding editor Robert B. Silvers; and University of Texas mathematician Karen K. Uhlenbeck. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
...Charbonneau searches for extrasolar planets by looking for signs of planets crossing in front of stars outside our solar system. Through a series of NASA-funded telescopes located in southern California that monitor 10,000 stars at a time, Charbonneau and his researchers scour the data, measuring the brightness of the stars. If a star is dark, it could be due to an eclipse from a planet in orbit around...
...hostile confines of the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis.What ensued was a battle of epic proportions. Harvard proved its mettle against the Badgers, grinding out over 127 minutes of grueling, scoreless hockey. But in the fourth overtime, Wisconsin’s Jinelle Zaugg one-timed a pass from Badgers star Sara Bauer to end the historic contest and the Crimson’s championship hopes.“They’re devastated,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said of her players after the game. “I’m devastated for them. They were warriors...
Despite the early end to its season, the Crimson can still boast of individual successes. Weissbourd was named the EIVA Player of the Week mid-season after an all-star performance against New Haven, in which he slammed down 14 hits and four aces. Weissbourd and senior middle hitter Andy Nelson controlled the center of the court throughout the season...
...starters, Bush's top advisers are all graduates of the school of Star Wars, old national security hands who in one form or another cut their teeth on the issue as young policymakers. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley pursued missile defense with the Soviets as an arms control negotiator in the administration of George H. W. Bush. When he became George W. Bush's deputy National Security Adviser in 2001, he kept a small model of the Soviet ballistic missile arsenal near his desk and spent his first nine months so focused on getting a rollback of the anti-ballistic...