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Harvard Honors Eleven With Honorary Degrees

LEON KIRCHNER

Kirchner, an acclaimed composer, pianist, and conductor, has received the recognition of the Pulitzer Committee and the New York Critics Circle for his works.

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As Harvard's Rosen professor of music, Kirchner created the graduate program for composition, and founded the Harvard Chamber Players (now known as the Harvard Chamber Orchestra).

A winner of the National Music Award, Kirchner will be receiving a Doctorate of Music today.

ALICE M. RIVLIN

Rivlin has had a long career working in government. Widely cited as breaking the glass ceiling in a trade dominated by men, Rivlin served as founding director of the Congressional Budget Office in 1975--an agency that to this day maintains the structure she created.

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