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The World e-Government Forum named Jeremy Heimans MPP 2003 and Purpose.com co-founder David Madden among the “Top 10 People Who Are Changing the World of the Internet and Politics." Read More…
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Samari left Togo as a young man, determined to pursue his education free of the threats and violence that plagued the college he had attended back home. Read More…
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Researchers Aleksander Ellis, Stephen Humphrey, and Donald Conlon of Michigan State University and Catherine Tinsley of Georgetown University have studied this new transactional form, which they call brokered ultimatum games, or BUGs. Read More…
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The Internet is at a crossroads. Today it is generally open, interoperable and unified. Tomorrow, however, we may see an entirely different Internet, one not characterized by openness and global reach, but by restrictions, blockages and cleavages. Read More…
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Masha Gessen on the Russian leader's totalitarian regime and the weaknesses of U.S. media coverage of her country. Read More…
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During his years as George H.W. Bush's Secretary of State, one of James A. Baker, III's, goals was to encourage the free-market reforms that Communist Party of the Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev had launched in the late 1980s. Read More…
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A new research paper suggests that public pension funds are “dangerously underfunded to the extent that their assets are unable to meet future liabilities without either outsize investment returns or huge cash infusions”. Read More…
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Check out the #Harvard375 video. More 375 celebrating during #harvard12 Commencement next week! http://ow.ly/aXhV9
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Prof. Michael Sandel: Should universities give preference to poor applicants? http://hvrd.me/HM6Vpw @BBCRadio4
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Bicyclists from the Longwood and Cambridge/Allston campuses @Harvard have pledged over 6k miles during Bike Week! http://hvrd.me/IZ7R79
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PubliCola, 2009-2012: How a Seattle news startup built an audience but not a business http://hvrd.me/L76XdZ
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Christine Lagarde of the IMF to share timely insights with @kennedy_school grads http://hvrd.me/IRDpf3
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1775: George Washington and Continental soldiers are quartered in Harvard buildings #history #harvard375
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"Religion, Science and the Weakening Quest to Save Creation" courtesy of @chgeharvard http://hvrd.me/LaYUwG
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For its 2012 elections coverage, MTV swaps out citizen journalism for gamification http://hvrd.me/IYAPUA
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Based on a popular Harvard Alumni Association walking tour given by PBS host and author Michael Weishan '86, this fascinating trip through Read more…
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It's a rainy morning in Cambridge, MA, but sometimes the most fun is had in the rain! Check out the video of Harvard's 375th birthday Read more…
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"Don't fall into easy answers about the character or the moral values of others to explain a crisis. Read more…
May 15, 2012 from Harvard
“First it was about search, then about blogs, then about social [media] — what will it be three years from now?” Gingras said. Read more…
May 14, 2012 from Harvard
We've come a long, long way together… This year, Harvard is celebrating the 375th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College in 1636. Read more…
May 14, 2012 from Harvard
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) say they have uncovered a way that animals detect pathogens in their Read more…
May 13, 2012 from Harvard
Quotation of the Week: “You just have to have enough stamina to keep everybody climbing up the hill nobody wants to go up anymore … you Read more…
May 13, 2012 from Harvard
Today, we celebrate Mother's Day in the United States. Read more…
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8 signers of the Declaration of Independence 29 presidents and heads of state 56 Nobel laureates 39 Pulitzer Prize winners 375 years of Read more…
