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Is
Harvard hall the best US building? (The Boston Globe) It's right there in black and white, Page 36: ''Sever Hall at Harvard by H.H. Richardson, which is my favorite building in America." The words come from a distinguished source. The author is Philadelphia architect Robert Venturi. For almost 40 years, Venturi has been one of this country's most influential thinkers on architecture, as well as a prominent practitioner. The quote is from his portion of a new book written with his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, titled ''Architecture as Signs and Systems for a Mannerist Time…" http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2004/11/28/is_harvard_hall_the_best_us_building/ click url to read
Financial world focuses on next Fed chief
(Associated Press) WASHINGTON -- While President Bush is busy putting together his Cabinet for a second term, the financial world's attention is on a job vacancy 14 months away: Who will succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan?… With Bush's re-election, the focus is on Republicans. Candidates include Harvard economics professor Martin Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Reagan administration; Columbia University professor Glenn Hubbard, who was Bush's first CEA chairman; Treasury Undersecretary John Taylor; and Federal Reserve board member Ben Bernanke. Handicappers generally put Feldstein, 65, at the top of the list, in part because he is the best known…
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2004/11/28/bushs_big_economic_pick_is_next_fed_chief/
What would Jesus do at Harvard? (The Boston
Globe) WALKING OUT OF Harvard's Divinity Hall on a recent afternoon, Harvey Cox's mood does not seem affected by the cold, damp weather or the deafening sounds of nearby construction. All the way back to his office, he's happily singing the much-covered reggae song "By the Rivers of Babylon." The lyrics, of course, are not entirely original. They're adapted from Psalm 137, and Cox, one of the country's most prominent theologians, has just used them in his graduate seminar on Jerusalem to demonstrate how the exiling of the Jews from the city in 587 BC echoes today as far as Rastafarian culture…
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2004/11/28/what_would_jesus_do_at_harvard/
Sleeping beauty (The Boston Globe) "Le Corbusier," as it turns out, is a two-foot-tall puppet on a small stage ringed by lights and camera equipment. His death scene, a factually cavalier re-imagining by the French conceptual artist Pierre Huyghe, is part of a filmed puppet musical Huyghe (pronounced hweeg) made in honor of Le Corbusier's only North American building, Harvard University's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, which turned 40 last year. Huyghe's puppet show debuted Nov. 18 with a live performance in a faceted, egg-shaped, moss-covered plastic theater specially built by Harvard architecture professor Michael Meredith and tucked under one of the building's broad cantilevered wings…
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2004/11/28/sleeping_beauty/
Born to run (The Boston Globe) THE HUMAN body is a long-distance running machine that came off the evolutionary assembly line about 2 million years ago, according to researchers writing in the journal Nature last week… Take the gluteus maximus sunk so firmly into the chair cushion. It may feel like an anchor now, but the authors -- Dennis Bramble of the University of Utah and Daniel Lieberman of Harvard -- think the muscle provided early humans with just the right ballast to keep them from falling forward as they leaned into loping strides that took them miles across African grasslands in search of prey…
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2004/11/28/born_to_run/
Joseph Nye pens a prescient tale: Facts catch up
to professor's first fiction (The Boston Globe) CAMBRIDGE -- The line between history and fiction is often nebulous, a truth demonstrated anew by current events and a new novel by Joseph S. Nye Jr., former dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. "When I started, the plot seemed far-fetched," Nye said in an interview at his Cambridge office. "But as things transpired, I began to think that fact might overtake my fiction…" http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2004/11/27/joseph_nye_pens_a_prescient_tale/ click url to read
Harvard scholar named to stamp advisory panel
(South Florida Sun-Sentinel) Dr. Henry L. Gates Jr. -- eminent scholar, author, literary critic and Harvard University professor -- will join the Postmaster General's Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee in January as its newest member. "Dr. Gates' extensive knowledge of African-American history and culture will greatly assist the Postal Service in selecting individuals, subjects and events to be commemorated on U.S. postage stamps," Postmaster General John E. Potter said… http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/lifestyle/sfl-stamps28nov28,0,4119955.story?coll=sfla-features-headlines click url to read
View From the Lab: Harnessing Stem Cells
(Newsweek) Updated: 2:34 p.m. ET Nov. 28, 2004 Dec. 6 issue - How does a child with type 1 diabetes resemble a 60-year-old heart-attack victim or an 80-year-old Parkinson's patient? Outwardly their conditions have little in common, yet they share a critical feature. All three involve the loss of a single type of specialized cell that the body can't replace on its own. Cell depletion is the root cause of many major diseases, from Alzheimer's to heart failure. And though treatment can often ease the symptoms, it rarely solves the underlying problem. That's why researchers are so keen on the potential of stem cells… Komaroff is editor in chief of Harvard Health Publications; Daley conducts stem-cell research at Harvard Medical School and the Children's Hospital Medical Center http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6596811/site/newsweek/ click url to read
Enlisting Law Schools in Campaign for Animals
(The New York Times) Now Mr. Barker has a new mission, which he is bankrolling with his own fortune. He has established endowments of $1 million each at several law schools - including those at Stanford, Columbia, Duke and the University of California, Los Angeles - for the study of animal-rights law. Other law schools, among them Northwestern University and the University of Michigan, are in the running for similar gifts… Harvard Law School was the first to benefit from Mr. Barker's focus on protecting animals. In 2001, when Pearson Television, which then owned "The Price Is Right," decided to allocate $500,000 to honor his 30 years as host of the show, Mr. Barker convinced company executives that the money would best be spent by donating it to Harvard University, which established what became known as the Bob Barker Endowment Fund for the Study of Animal Rights… http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/27/arts/television/27bark.html click url to read
Gardner museum to grow: 1903 institution plans
tripling space in 1st major expansion (The Boston Globe) The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, whose construction has remained the same since it opened in 1903, will announce today its first major expansion. Officials have hired Italian architect Renzo Piano to design a multistory building for the museum's Fenway site… Piano will come to Boston in December to interview staff and walk through the Gardner as he works to develop a design for the new building. He was selected after a nearly yearlong search. Advisers during this process included Henri Zerner, a Harvard University art history professor; Barry Munitz, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust; and John L. Gardner, chairman of the museum's board of trustees and Gardner's great-great nephew… http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2004/11/29/gardner_museum_to_grow?pg=2 click url to read
Visa crackdown costs US cream of foreign students
(The Times, U.K.) The security crackdown that came after the September 11 terrorist attacks has contributed to the first fall in the number of foreign students attending US universities in more than a generation, prompting concern about the nation¹s standing in the world. The delays caused by security clearances became so extreme that Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard and a former US Treasury Secretary, wrote to Colin Powell, then the Secretary of State, about the case of a postdoctoral student who went to Beijing for his father¹s funeral, and had to wait five months for permission to return… http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3561-1380322,00.html click url to read
Out of the shadows: Company programs give a
crucial boost to the working poor (The Boston Globe) Edgar Filho isn't your typical Harvard student. The Medford resident, a native of Brazil, makes $18 per hour as a landscaper at the university. His annual earnings amount to about $2,000 less than the cost of attending Harvard for a single year… Even so, Filho is able to take classes in English and computer skills at Harvard thanks to a groundbreaking program providing free classes to hourly employees. "When I started working at Harvard, they told me I would be able to take classes to improve my English," says Filho, 38, who has worked there for two years. Thanks to the classes, he is now studying to be a medical interpreter and even teaches a beginners' computer class. "Some of my coworkers really needed to study [computer skills], so I got to introduce them to it, and they're doing really well now," he says… http://www.boston.com/jobs/articles/2004/11/28/out_of_the_shadows/ click url to read
You Can't Get Here From There (The New York
Times) Cambridge, Mass. ‹ Last year, the number of foreign students at American colleges and universities fell for the first time since 1971. Recent reports show that total foreign student enrollment in our 2,700 colleges and universities dropped 2.4 percent, with a much sharper loss at large research institutions. Two-thirds of the 25 universities with the most foreign students reported major enrollment declines. The costs to the American economy are significant. Educating foreign students is a $13 billion industry. Moreover, the United States does not produce enough home-grown doctoral students in science and engineering to meet our needs. The shortfall is partly made up by the many foreign students who stay here after earning their degrees… Joseph S. Nye Jr., a professor of government at Harvard, is the author, most recently, of "The Power Game: A Washington Novel." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/29/opinion/29nye.html?oref=login click url to read |
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