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...need to, and they are really helping the team win big.” Following the win on Friday, Harvard’s next step is to step its performance up one more notch to prepare for the Georgia Invitational held from Dec. 5-7 against Clemson, Denver, West Virginia, and Georgia. “I’m really looking forward to competing at the Georgia Invitational. It’s a fun meet, and a lot of great athletes go and race there,” Diekema said. “It will be challenging and I hope...
...Pushing people out of their comfort zones is an essential aim of the School of Life, which opened in September. Situated in Bloomsbury, once home to London literati like E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf, the school promises "intelligent instruction on how to lead a fulfilled life." Physically, it's a small bookshop with a classroom in the basement, but it has the earnest feel of a book club hosted by a psychotherapist. Instruction can take the form of six-week courses on family, love, play, politics or work ($320), or can involve spending an hour with one of the school...
...President walks a rope line is a given. But agents have also had to respond to unique security challenges--from rigging traffic lights while Truman strolled through Washington to shielding President Jimmy Carter's daughter, Amy, from a charging elephant at a pet show on Ethel Kennedy's Virginia estate. While the demeanor (sunglasses, earpieces, constant vigilance) and the danger are what captivate the public, monitoring for fiscal malfeasance is still half the job. In August, the Secret Service helped crack what was heralded as the largest identity-theft ring in U.S. history...
Unlike other universities with long-standing polo traditions like Cornell and the University of Virginia, Harvard faces several key disadvantages, including a practice space that is at least 40 minutes away from campus and a stable of only 14 horses, sufficient to host home games, but incomparable to Cornell’s collection of 30 ponies...
...while she didn’t always have “an incredibly strong sense” of what profession she would pursue after college, academia “was always one of the options.” Following her post-doc work, Jasanoff taught at the University of Virginia. She applied for a tenure track position at Harvard in 2006. Jasanoff’s parents are also on the Harvard faculty.Although most Harvard professors may seem as old as Harvard itself, some departments feature recent Harvard graduates, like Jasanoff, who return to Harvard to teach after relatively short hiatuses...