Harvard in the World
Dantoon (No, Not a Parody of 'Lampoon')
As if Harvard students needed more ways to procrastinate, Teymour Shahabi '06 recently launched Dantoon, a site that he calls "the world's first search engine of thoughts."
Globe Endorses Khazei for Senate
In a move sure to excite many enthusiastic undergrads, the Boston Globe endorsed Alan Khazei ’83 in the special election for the Massachusetts senate seat left vacant by the death of Ted Kennedy.
Company Seeks Lab Resource Equity
Before matriculating at Harvard Medical School in 2001, Nina S. Dudnik worked at a lab in the Ivory Coast. And ...
Al Jazeera Commentator
California State Professor As’ad AbuKhalil contrasts the Middle East policies of Presidents Bush and Obama yesterday at Harvard Law School.
America's Next Great Pundit? With Finals Coming Up, Maybe Not.
As you may have read earlier this week, The Washington Post recently named Jeremy L. Haber, a joint J.D./M.B.A. student at HLS and the B School, as one of its four remaining finalists in the newspaper's "America's Next Great Pundit" contest. Unfortunately, the Internet has voted, and Haber came in fourth, receiving about 7 percent of the vote in the seventh round. Legal tabloid Above The Law has reported that Haber chalked up his loss to difficulties balancing the competition with his schoolwork.
Khazei Wants Colbert to Come to Massachusetts
Social activist Alan A. Khazei '83, one of four individuals vying to be the Democratic candidate for the late Edward M. Kennedy's '54-'56 senate seat, could be the reason that Stephen Colbert may be coming to a political forum near you. Last Wednesday, Khazei's campaign released a video challenging Colbert to host a debate among the Democratic primary candidates. In the video, Khazei demanded to know if Colbert was "tough enough to come here to Massachusetts—the birthplace of freedom, the birthplace of our democracy—and moderate a debate up against four progressive Democrats." "It's for real," David R. Jacobson, Khazei's deputy communications director, told us. Check out the video—and find out if Colbert has responded—after the jump.
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Hayden Panettiere coming to Harvard? Only in the CW's dreams. Oh, and those of every other male on campus.
Hayden Panettiere coming to HMS?
The CW network once confined its cookie-cutter melodramas to the mean streets of Park Avenue and botoxed Beverly Hills. But no longer. The latest hotbed of young adult debauchery and angst, according to Warner Bros. executives, is Harvard Medical School. The network is developing a show of the Grey's Anatomy ilk, creatively called "HMS," according to a brief published in The Hollywood Reporter this week. More details after the jump.
Group Honors Heroic Pilot
The Harvard Foundation presented its 2009 Humanitarian Award to Captain Chesley Sullenberger, who orchestrated the stunning landing of commercial flight 1549 on the Hudson River in January after the plane’s two engines lost function mid-flight.
Dem. Senate Candidate Speaks in Adams House
Raucous applause welcomed Democratic Senate hopeful Alan A. Khazei ’83, into the Upper Common Room of Adams House yesterday afternoon. ...
Indian Actress To Enroll At HBS
Renowned Bollywood actress Preity Zinta is adding to her resume of blockbusters by enrolling in an executive course at Harvard Business School next month to study negotiating and deal-making, the Indian media reported this week.
Facebook Movie Films At Johns Hopkins U.
Over the past week, students at Johns Hopkins and Phillips Academy Andover watched their campuses transform into versions of Harvard for the filming of “The Social Network.”
