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...University of Pennsylvania, Ruth J. Simmons of Brown, and Shirley M. Tilghman of Princeton. “There’s a kind of evolving friendship and professional relationship that I value very much,” Faust said of sharing the award with her fellow Ivy presidents. This year??s winners, who were nominated by a board of about 200 past Glamour women, include actress Jennifer Garner, fashion designer Donna Karan, and political figures such as Elizabeth Edwards and Nancy Pelosi. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, was noticeably absent from the list. Glamour editor Lauren...
...pavement. Davis holds the rare distinction of being a two-varsity athlete at Harvard. In the winter, he is a diver for the Crimson swimming and diving team, and, in the spring, he is a coxswain for the heavyweight crew team. On top of those commitments, Davis completed last year??s New York City Marathon. “Each sport has its own little niche that I like about it,” Davis says. “The leadership I get with the crew team is a pretty cool thing, and the running—I like...
...Start-ups seem to be the most risk that Harvard students are willing to take,” he said. Many students enter graduate school with the intention of using the skills acquired there to more deeply inform some later service projects, and the plans of this year??s seniors are no different; but Mahan, now entering his third year out of Harvard, is watching his peers as the two- and three-year commitments of grad schools and banking contracts are expiring, and sees a different trend. “I think it’s possible...
...Nation Under our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration.” He is slated to give two more lectures for Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research this week at this year??s Nathan I. Huggins lectures, an annual series that features a distinguished scholar in the field of African-American history. Hahn will lecture again today on slave rebellion and tomorrow on the black nationalist Marcus Garvey in the Barker Center...
...picked to win the league after finishing third in the Ivies last season. No team other than Penn and Princeton has won the league since 1988, when the Big Red grabbed the crown. Cornell grabbed 10 of 16 first-place votes and finished with 119 points overall. Yale, last year??s runner-up, was second and earned three first-place votes. Three-time defending champion Penn, Columbia, and Brown came in third through fifth, and each received one first-place vote. Harvard, after posting a 5-9 league record last season, finished with just 43 points, three ahead...