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...September 2004, after he spoke at a Harvard symposium on Native American studies, some attendees said they left the event offended by the president’s remarks, which they asserted downplayed the suffering of Native Americans...
...Games' opening days. As the unfulfilled expectations initially piled up--as when all four female snowboarders failed to qualify for the half-pipe final, or when Emily Brydon finished 20th in the women's downhill--coc chief executive officer Chris Rudge said he was planning a post-Games symposium of sports psychologists to discern why Canadians crumble under the weight of the five rings. The only early bright spots were the inspirational silver won by Beckie Scott and Sara Renner in cross-country team sprint and Jennifer Heil's gold medal in freestyle moguls...
Technorati and budding tech entrepreneurs trucked through Saturday’s rain to be schooled on start-ups and be told that the economy is on the verge of another dot-com frenzy at Startup School, a one-day symposium designed to promote start-up companies. Y Combinator, a tech company incubator, teamed up with Harvard Computing Society (HCS) to host the event. The organizers brought cognoscenti including Michael Mandel, the chief economist at BusinessWeek, to lecture to the 500-person audience in the Science Center. Mandel summarized the dot-com boom of the late 1990s in four words...
Professor of Cell Biology Junying Yuan is one of 13 recipients of this year’s NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, the results of which will be officially announced at an NIH Symposium this morning. The grant is intended to fund chancey biomedical research in unexplored areas...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN songs may mostly remind fans of their proms. But more than 500 academics, clergy and journalists planning to attend a conference at Monmouth University in New Jersey this week think the Boss warrants deeper reflection. Papers to be presented at Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium include "A Marxist Perspective on Darkness on the Edge of Town," "Steinbeck and Springsteen" and "The Boss and the Bible." Speakers include rock critic Dave Marsh, touted as a "Louie Louie expert," and Frank Stefanko, who has photographed Springsteen a lot. Attendees may also visit the Stone Pony, Springsteen's storied hometown...