Harvard apology sought after talk on Nazis (The Boston Globe)

By Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff  |  November 15, 2004

A speech yesterday detailing new research on Harvard University's relationship with Nazi Germany during the 1930s prompted one prominent scholar to call for the university to apologize for its stance in that era, even as he and other historians noted that people at Harvard were not exceptional for exhibiting ''genteel anti-Semitism" before and during World War II.

Speaking at a conference on the Holocaust at Boston University yesterday, historian Stephen H. Norwood argued that Harvard officials maintained a friendly relationship with Nazi officials and Nazi institutions in the mid-1930s, even though Adolf Hitler's persecution of the Jews was known in the United States.

Harvard officials categorically reject Norwood's findings. ''If there are new facts, they should be added to the archives of history and the dialogue of those times," spokesman Joe Wrinn said in a prepared statement yesterday. But he added: ''Harvard University and President [James Bryant] Conant did not support the Nazis..."

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Harvard soft on pre-war Nazis, historian alleges (Associated Press)

By KEN MAGUIRE 

The Associated Press

11/14/2004, 8:14 p.m. ET

BOSTON (AP) Harvard University was "complicit in enhancing the prestige of the Nazi regime" in the 1930s despite knowing Jews were being persecuted, a historian claimed Sunday at a Holocaust conference.

The administration of America's oldest college welcomed one of Adolf Hitler's closest deputies to a reunion, hosted a reception for German naval officials and sent a delegate to a celebration of a German university that had expelled Jews, Stephen H. Norwood claimed at a conference at Boston University.

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Report Assails Harvard's Links with Nazis (Reuters)

Sun Nov 14, 2004 06:34 PM ET

By Missy Ryan

BOSTON (Reuters) - Collegial relations between Harvard University and the Nazis in the 1930s were a "shameful" episode that helped give a favorable picture of the regime in the United States, according to a report released on Sunday.

"As the Nazi menace steadily increased ... Conant's administration at Harvard was complicit in increasing the prestige of Nazi regime by seeking and maintaining friendly and respectful relations with Nazi universities and officials," the report said.

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A step closer to understanding (Newsday)

BY JAMIE TALAN

STAFF WRITER

November 15, 2004

Recently, Harvard scientists discovered that, at least in mice, the brain can rally against an all-out attack on brain cells by summoning stem cells to help repopulate the hard-hit region.

Now the researchers want to determine whether similar stem cell activity can be orchestrated in diseases like ALS or Parkinson's, in which a specific group of brain cells dies off. Such a finding would lead toward an understanding of how to achieve similar results in the human brain, said Jeffrey Macklis, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School Center for Nervous System Repair.

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Labor Shifts May Slow Work-Force Growth (Wall Street Journal)

By JON HILSENRATH

Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

November 15, 2004; Page A2

NEW YORK -- In the past four years, the number of adult Americans who aren't working and who aren't looking for work has swelled by six million, pushing labor-force participation rates to the lowest levels in 16 years.

That might sound like good news because it means less competition for each potential worker. But it's not all good, says Dale Jorgenson, a Harvard economist who specializes in something called growth accounting, which breaks down the engines of economic growth -- most notably productivity growth and changes in the labor force.

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