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WHL Bronco brothers of Kamloops make trip home memorable for family and teammates
Sam is the youngest of three Ward boys. He says playing with middle brother Matthew is a great experience, but it’s also not the only time he’s been able to be on the same junior team as a sibling. “A couple of years ago, I played in Merritt with my older brother [Ben], which was very fortunate,” Sam says. “I get to play with my other brother here, so it’s awesome. I get to be away but I still get to be with my family, so it’s nice.” It was Matthew who made the big impact at home on Tuesday night.
Matlock Town Battle Past Belper Town
Late goals from Luke Hinsley and Marcus Marshall turned the game on its head after George Milner had given Belper the lead. After a slow start to the game, the first chance fell to Grant Black’s side. Craig Nelthorpe skilfully beat his marker before firing over. Matlock’s first chance of the game came the way of captain Cleveland Taylor whose 25-yard drive just missed the top corner.
Trump Ordered Low-Flying Military Helicopters to Stop D.C. Protesters
The U.S. military performed a major show of force over Washington, D.C. earlier this week. The operation included overflights by military helicopters and the use of an ambulance helicopter to disperse crowds. At the same time, hundreds of U.S. Army troops were flown in from bases across the nation, including a battalion of paratroopers.
21 - THEATER REVIEW Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist - Gay Lesbian Bi Trans News Archive - Windy City Times
By: Sam Ward At: Pride Film and Plays at Pride Arts Center, 4139 N. Broadway St. Tickets: 773-857-0222 or PrideFilmsAndPlays.com; $25-$30. Runs through: April 12 Performing another artist's confessional show sounds a bit "dodgy" as the Brits would say. Add in lots of audience participation and you've got an even trickier proposition. Both of these potential performance hurdles are built into Pride Films and Plays' American premiere of Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist.
De Bruyne 'dreaming' of Carabao Cup hat-trick
Men's Team Sat 29 Feb 2020, 22:30 Kevin De Bruyne says it would be a “dream” to help City bring the Carabao Cup back to Manchester on Sunday. City are aiming to make it three consecutive Carabao Cup victories having beaten Chelsea and Arsenal in the last two seasons. We go into game high on confidence following a 2-1 away victory over Real Madrid in the Champions League Round-of-16 on Wednesday night.
Verified Twitter Account Attempts to Solicit Verge in Latest Twitter Scam
A coveted blue verified badge is a hot commodity on Twitter in 2018, one that not even Verge, one of the top privacy coins, can obtain. The lead up to a partnership announcement with Pornhub yesterday raised the coin’s profile over the last few weeks, attracting a fraudulent Twitter imposter soliciting crypto from the public.
AngelList’s Former Head of Marketing Niv Dror Launches ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Capital
Niv Dror, the former head of marketing at AngelList, has launched a $3 million venture capital fund named ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Capital, also known as Shrug Capital. The fund has already captured the interest of Andreessen-Horowitz partners Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon, Founders Fund’s Cyan Banister and Owen Brainard of Brainard Capital, Business Insider reports.
Spotify Shakes up Typical Wall Street Debut With Direct NYSE Listing
Spotify Technology S.A. (SPOT) shares began trading Tuesday on the NYSE, ending the day at $149.01, a 13% gain from its pre-listing price. The Stockholm-based music streaming service started the day up 22% to $165.90, then fell during the afternoon trading session. The company decided to pass on the typical Wall Street public offering, foregoing the press circuit and even declining to ring the opening bell.
Physicist Julian Schwinger (1918-1994) Celebrated
In the fall of 1945, at Los Alamos, New Mexico, scientists working on the Manhattan Project heard Julian Schwinger deliver a brilliant lecture about a new accelerator he had designed. Mallinckrodt research professor Roy Glauber, then just 20 years old, his undergraduate studies at Harvard on hold as he helped develop the atom bomb, was in the audience.
Harvard basketball vs Princeton and Penn
On Friday evening, an unusual sight greeted fans at Lavietes Pavilion: the 2018 NCAA men’s basketball national championship trophy was on display in the lobby, thanks to a promotion that is rotating the prize to one school in every conference in advance of March Madness. The notion of Harvard winning that tournament may be far-fetched, but at least one alumnus had a vision for what it would take to have a nationally competitive program.
The animal law conundrum: when are creatures "things”?
Jeremy and Kathryn Medlen have two children, but with eight-year-old Avery around, it often felt like three. A beloved mixed-breed mutt with flopped-forward Labrador ears, Avery was a member of the family, welcome on the couch, included on vacations, a fixture in family photos. But in June 2009, the dog spooked at a thunderclap and fled the Medlens’ Fort Worth, Texas, backyard. He ended up at a nearby shelter, where his overjoyed owners found him the following day.
Symposium with Harvard alumni MLB executives
They talked about the global game of baseball and the passion that keeps them in it and the young players—getting younger every year—whom they now steer through major-league careers. They relived past glories on O’Donnell Field and retraced the winding paths that got them where they are. They talked about rebuilding efforts and pace of play and making trades. They talked about their moms.
Harvard Aims To Become Fossil Fuel-Free by 2050
President Drew Faust announced today that Harvard will strive to become fossil-fuel-neutral by 2026, and fossil-fuel-free by 2050. These ambitious goals are being unveiled a year after the University declared success in reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions by 30 percent from 2006 levels (in part by relying more on electricity generated using natural gas, a less carbon-intensive fuel than those it is supplanting).
Harvard Aims To Become Fossil Fuel-Free by 2050
President Drew Faust announced today that Harvard will strive to become fossil-fuel-neutral by 2026, and fossil-fuel-free by 2050. These ambitious goals are being unveiled a year after the University declared success in reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions by 30 percent from 2006 levels (in part by relying more on electricity generated using natural gas, a less carbon-intensive fuel than the ones it is supplanting).
Football research at Harvard seeks new therapies for players
A crushed nose, a snapped collarbone, a finger jabbed in an eye that drew blood: these were the minor injuries sustained at 1894’s brutal rendition of the Harvard-Yale football game. One tackle took a blow to the head so hard, his teammates had to point him to the correct goal before each play. He later fell unconscious for five hours—no thanks to the medics who carried him off the field, dumped him onto a pile of blankets, and resumed watching the match.
The "Five-foot Shelf" Reconsidered
"On or about December, 1910," Virginia Woolf wrote, "human character changed." Woolf was not referring to a specific event so much as to a new cultural climate, a new way of looking at the world, that would become known as modernism. When he finished his introduction to the Harvard Classics in March of that same year, Charles William Eliot could hardly have guessed that such a change was just over the horizon.
New Grad Student Union Election Will Be April 18-19
A second Harvard graduate-student union election will take place April 18 and 19, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced today. The election will replace the results of the contested unionization election that took place in November 2016, which was invalidated by the Boston regional NLRB. This is a developing story—check back for updates.
New Grad Student Union Election Will Be April 18-19
A second Harvard graduate-student union election will take place April 18 and 19, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced today. The election will replace the results of the contested unionization election that took place in November 2016, which was invalidated by the Boston regional NLRB. This is a developing story—check back for updates.
Tania James’s dueling artistic impulses
“Never write from an animal’s perspective,” admonished the fiction-writing manual that Tania James ’03 read while preparing to teach a writing workshop. At that moment, she realized the magnitude of the risk she had taken in her then recently completed novel.
Amartya Sen proposes a measure of poverty that looks beyond income
If poverty means more than just the weight of a wallet, the world’s poor may be more numerous than previously believed. World Bank estimates put the population of global poor at 1.44 billion people--but a recent poverty index based on the work of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor and professor of economics and philosophy, raises that number to 1.71 billion. The differences lie in how poverty is measured.
Online voting system Helios offers prototype for transparent, secure elections
The typical voter experience, as Ben Adida sees it, involves too much trust. “There is a disconnect the moment you drop off your ballot,” says the fellow of Harvard’s Center for Research on Computation and Society and faculty researcher at Harvard Medical School. After a ballot is cast, voters can only wait for the results to appear on their smart phones, or on the evening news.
Michael Greenberg studies molecular-level memory formation and eRNA
In the early 1960s, Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers (and future Nobel laureates) David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel began a series of landmark experiments investigating the effects of experience on the brain. In one trial, the pair closed a kitten’s eye at birth to measure the effects of sensory deprivation. After six months, they reopened the eyelid and found that the animal was almost completely blind in that eye.
From Human Nature to Human Resources
In 1990, just as professor of organizational behavior Paul Lawrence was preparing to retire from the Business School, he began to notice a new leadership model gaining traction among some of his colleagues. “Agency theory” argued that managers’ prime responsibility was to work in the best interest of shareholders, he says, and was widely embraced.
Heather Henriksen
“This might be a little in the weeds, but trust me, it’s cool.” Heather Henriksen is warming up an impassioned (but definitely cool) oration about a University-wide push to get harmful chemicals—“flame retardants, antimicrobials, stain repellents, water repellents”—out of campus buildings.
Researchers Find Earliest Known Human Fossil Outside Africa
Our modern human ancestors are thought to have begun migrating out of Africa about 100,000 years ago, but new evidence of human remains in a prehistoric cave finds that they left the continent at least 50,000 years earlier than that. The research, published in Science today, contributes to a growing body of findings—drawn from various investigative methods, including fossil dating and DNA evidence—suggesting that humans began to disperse across the planet much earlier than previously thought.
Harvard College Delays General-Education Curriculum
Harvard undergraduates resuming classes for the new semester today may be surprised by the announcement, contained within College dean Rakesh Khurana's welcome-back message, that the revised General Education curriculum, scheduled to begin in the fall of 2018, has been postponed a full academic year. He wrote: As we begin the new semester, I also want to update you on the new College academic requirements, which were originally scheduled to take effect in Fall 2018.
Harvard women's basketball: a midseason report
On New Year’s Eve, the Harvard women’s basketball team beat Stony Brook 60-53. Their record was 7-5 and they seemed to be heading into 2018 in fine form. But head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith recognized serious problems. Among them: her team “was not fluid offensively,” she said, and her players’ confidence was fragile. “If we play this way,” the coach predicted, “we will not be .500 in the Ivy League. Period.
Hasty Pudding Announces 2018's Man and Woman of the Year
The Hasty Pudding theatricals has named actors Mila Kunis and Paul Rudd 2018’s Woman and Man of the Year. Kunis is best known for her role as Jackie Burkhart on Fox's That 70's Show, as well as for her role as Lilly (opposite Natalie Portman ’03) in 2010's Oscar-nominated film Black Swan. Kunis has also starred in comedy film Bad Moms, and the sequel, Bad Moms Christmas.
Hasty Pudding Announces 2018's Man and Woman of the Year
The Hasty Pudding theatricals has named actors Mila Kunis and Paul Rudd 2018’s Woman and Man of the Year. Kunis is best known for her role as Jackie Burkhart on Fox's That 70's Show, as well as for her role as Lilly (opposite Natalie Portman ’03) in 2010's Oscar-nominated film Black Swan. Kunis has also starred in comedy film Bad Moms, and the sequel, Bad Moms Christmas.
Harvard fundraiser Tamara Rogers stepping down
Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74, vice president for alumni affairs and development, announced today that she would step down at the end of 2018. The timing is logical: The Harvard Campaign, which she has directed, concludes June 30 (the end of the academic year), as does the presidency of Drew Faust, to whom Rogers reports; and by year-end, the final fundraising tally should be well in hand.
Harvard basketball: a midseason report
At first, the message seemed strange. After a 74-63 victory over Boston University in late December, Stemberg men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker wrote on the whiteboard in the team’s locker room that the Crimson were 2-0. The team’s record was actually 5-6, but as Weisner Perez ’19 explained, the coach was developing a theme he had introduced after the team’s 79-70 loss to Kentucky.
Harvard Likely Must Hold New Graduate-Student Union Election
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has completed a final vote count for the graduate-student union election that took place in November 2016, finding that 1,526 students voted against forming a labor union and 1,396 voted in favor. This outcome has been widely expected, because of an earlier NLRB decision ordering a new election if the final count did not result in a victory for the union. Today’s tally means the University will need to hold a new election.
Al Franken trivia and videos
Impersonating a gyrating Mick Jagger onstage, using biting humor against Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly, making an impassioned speech about the "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" policy on the Senate floor—Al Franken has done it all. (Read a profile from the March-April issue.) Learn more about the comedic-actor-turned-liberal-politician from the facts below, and, further down, from two videos, one lighthearted and one more serious.
Harvard Overseer and HAA Director official candidates for 2018
This spring, alumni can vote for new Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) elected directors. Ballots (mailed out by April 1) must be received at the indicated address by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on May 15 to be counted. All holders of Harvard degrees, except Corporation members and officers of instruction and government, are entitled to vote for Overseer candidates. The election for HAA directors is open to all Harvard degree-holders.
Congress taxes Harvard, other endowments
The tax changes enacted yesterday by the Republican majorities in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate and awaiting signing into law by President Donald Trump impose a tax on a few dozen college and university endowments’ investment income—but they did not incorporate most of the other features that most alarmed the higher-education community (see “Taxing Matters”).
Excerpt from "Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing," by Victoria Sweet, M.D.
A former physician, now associate clinical professor of medicine at University of California, San Francisco, Victoria Sweet, G ’73, is appalled by the depersonalization of healthcare in its technological, institutional manifestations. In Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing (Riverhead, $27), she recounts what transpired when her father suffered a grand mal seizure and was hospitalized—on the incorrect impression that it was his first such incident and that he might have suffered a stroke.
Harvard botanists hunt rare plants in China
The first thing the explorers noticed when they reached the dam was that their guide was wearing gaiters that stretched above his calf. Everyone knew what it meant: there would be terrestrial leeches on this hunt. The second thing they noticed was the guide’s long, wood-handled tool, with a short, curved iron blade. He was leaning on it as the team exited the van, while he ran a critical eye over everyone’s attire.
Harvard Files Plan for Allston “Innovation” District
Harvard has publicly filed its proposal to develop its “enterprise research campus” (ERC), a non-academic, commercial “innovation” district in Allston just south of Harvard Business School (HBS) and east of the new science and engineering complex. The filing triggers a 45-day period for public comment, after which the Boston Public Development Agency will consider the plan for approval. It covers an initial phase of what may, over time, become a much larger commercial district.
Shojo Asian-fusion restaurant | Harvard Magazine
Chinatown's hip Sh?j? serves addictive Asian-fusion tapas with a quirky Western twist. Japanese sweet-potato tots are dipped in miso tare aioli ($8). Chicken and Hong Kong bubble waffles (a popular street-food item) come slathered with five-spice butter ($16). And the resident hamburger, the “Sh?j?nator,” is housed in a steamed bao-style bun and topped with smoked bacon and “kimcheese.” Sh?j?
Winthrop House renovated and expanded
The old made new. Winthrop House, renovated and expanded, welcomed undergraduates back this fall. Those who still read books have a gorgeously refreshed library in which to do so. House amenities include this new rooftop terrace, and an extended terrace in the refurbished Gore Hall courtyard. The contractors have moved on to Lowell House, where the renewal will take two years (students are in swing spaces now; see Brevia, on the diaspora).
Kevin Young surveys American culture, from circuses to con men
For me, it’s not the commemorative McDonald’s commercials, nor the reverent social-media hashtags, nor simply the calendar that signals Black History Month: it’s February when the Sophia Stewart Matrix Hoax recirculates around the Web. The legend goes that Stewart, who’s black, pitched a short story to the Wachowskis back in 1986, which they plagiarized and turned into the Matrix franchise and, inexplicably, The Terminator saga. Supposedly Stewart sued them and Warner Bros.
Composer Ashley Fure unleashes her visceral opera “The Force of Things”
The music of composer Ashley Fure, Ph.D. ’13, asks listeners to come to terms with wanting to linger beside sounds from which they’d otherwise retreat. During an August rehearsal for her opera The Force of Things, the percussionist Ross Karre—a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, which commissioned the work—stood behind an aircraft cable stretched across two hemispheres of styrofoam, wielding a double-bass bow. Hearing a cue through his headphones, he applied bow to cable.
In “Little Fires Everywhere,” a Custody Battle Ignites the Comfortable Suburbs
Though her new novel begins with arson by a rebellious teen, Celeste Ng ’02 speaks warmly of her adolescence in Shaker Heights, Ohio, an affluent Cleveland suburb. The high school offered a lot of creative writing classes, she remembers, and had an extracurricular group focused on race relations. “It’s a wonderful place, and also very progressive,” she says of the town.
Better surgical procedures benefit amputees
Today’s state-of-the-art prosthetic limbs are scientific marvels, designed with robotics and sensors that respond to neural and muscular signals, to give users the possibility of greater function and control. But amputation techniques lag far behind these sophisticated prostheses. “The amputation paradigm hasn’t significantly changed in the last 200 years,” explains Shriya Srinivasan, a doctoral student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) program.
What’s Worth Fighting For: Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates Speaks at Harvard Law School
“It was supposed to be an uneventful time,” former acting U.S. attorney general Sally Q. Yates told Harvard Law School (HLS) degree candidates during her Class Day speech—even, as her former chief of staff joked, a time for “long, boozy lunches.” Yates had agreed with President Donald Trump’s incoming team, as per tradition, that she would stay at the Department of Justice and “things would stay as they are” until Trump’s pick for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, was confirmed. No changes.
“Sink into it": ballet choreographer Claudia Schreier, profiled
In an overheated basement studio at Barnard College, a dancer twirls with smartphone in hand, eyes fixed on an inches-wide video of the steps she should take. Two others windmill their arms, looking like Olympic swimmers warming up poolside. They’re practicing a piece called “Harmonic,” trying to get the swings’ arc and momentum just right. “It’s really unnatural!” one of them says.
Profile of Harvard basketball player Zena Edosomwan
It is hard to miss Zena Edosomwan ’17, the six-foot-nine, 245-pound power forward on the Harvard men’s basketball team. Fans saw him leap over not one, not two, but three teammates—all of whom were at least six-foot-nine—during the slam dunk contest at Crimson Madness.
Justice Stephen Breyer is profiled by Lincoln Caplan
Justice Stephen G. Breyer, LL.B. ’64, sometimes says that his job and that of other members of the Supreme Court is to speak for the law. He does not mean that justices are Platonic Guardians, with ironclad power to impose their will on the nation despite being unelected. The job calls for deference to the elected branches of government, he emphasizes, and, even more, for caution and doubt.
Harvard endocrinologist David Ludwig says all calories are not created equal
Low fat. Low carb. Vegan. Atkins. Paleo. South Beach. Zone. As television shows, magazine covers, podcasts, and books release an endless flood of diet advice, the average person finds it difficult at best to know how to find a sustainable method of weight loss. The latest scientific debate in the world of nutrition is no less heated: are all calories created equal?
Rosabeth Moss Kanter on solving America’s infrastructure problems
The nomination of Boston as the U.S. host city for the 2024 summer Olympics preceded much public discussion of the potential benefits and costs. Andrew Zimbalist, Ph.D. ’74, is perhaps the foremost analyst of public investments in sports facilities and global athletic competitions, so Harvard Magazine asked him to draw on his recent scholarship to assess the Boston bid.
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