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A Harvard legend passes away

Harry Parker, men’s heavyweight crew coach, dead at 77

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Crew coach Harry Parker

Tracking a cultural shift

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Right down the middle, explained

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Year in Pictures

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    Harry L. Parker, the Thomas Bolles Head Coach for Harvard Men’s Crew, was widely regarded as the premier rowing coach in the United States.

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    June 29, 2013"The news that the McDonald’s restaurant chain decided not to open a restaurant in a new mall in the Israeli settlement of Ariel, in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian West Bank, pales in comparison with the news out of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq these days. Read more…

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    On September 18, 1998, at a rare, special convocation at which he was presented with an honorary degree, President Nelson Mandela spoke to a crowd of 25,000 in Tercentenary Theatre, calling on citizens of the world’s developed nations to partner with emerging democracies to alleviate hunger, poverty and disease.

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