Harvard in the World
Doing Good With Lots o' Dough
Doing good is going to get a whole lot easier for the Phillips Brooks House Association. The omnipresent Harvard non-profit got a mid-finals period pick-me-up when it won $25,000 in the Chase Community Giving competition for being voted into the top 100 charities in the United States.
OSAPR Head Goes Abroad
Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Director Sarah A. Rankin recently traveled to Spain to discuss Harvard’s efforts to combat gender and sexual violence.
Congrats, Bernanke
Ben S. Bernanke '75, a Winthrop House economics concentrator, was honored by TIME Magazine as 2009's Person of the Year.
Natalie Portman Will Battle Zombies
Harvard alums often go on to do great things. Take Natalie Portman '03, for example. After proving herself over the years as both a talented and diverse dramatic actress, Portman has just signed on to produce and star in the film adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's wildly popular cult favorite Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
If Larry Summers Says the Recession is Over, Then It Must Be True
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers said on ABC News's This Week with George Stephanopoulos that "Today, everybody agrees that the recession is over" (1:15). Wait, what? "The recession is over"?
Former Crimson Reporter Lee Not Divulging Post-Buyout Plans for Now
According to The New York Observer, former Crimson editor Jennifer 8. Lee ’98-’99, a star Metro reporter for The New ...
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Jennifer 8. Lee '98-'99, pictured here in a courtesy photo, has thus far declined to divulge her plans after leaving the Times.
From Harvard to... Well, Fake Harvard
Some people graduate from Harvard and escape to Hollywood. Former Eliot House resident Rashida L. Jones '97 has been forced ...
Court Strikes Fair Use Claim
Boston University graduate student Joel Tenenbaum will pay a $675,000 fine to the Recording Industry Association of America for illegally ...
Its Never Too Late to Apologize
Being in love means never having to say you’re sorry, sure. But being President of a prominent university—or country— means ...
Say It Ain't So...
It wasn’t a “Flat Tire” nor a broken “Hash Pipe,” but rather an unfortunate patch of ice. An untimely crash ...
