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Roscoe Pound Professor of Law James Vorenberg, the ninth dean of Harvard Law School, former Watergate associate special prosecutor, and first chair of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission, died on April 12, 2000, of cardiac arrest. “The Law School has lost one of its greatest citizens,” said Law School Dean Robert C. Clark. “Jim Vorenberg…

Name tags might have been necessary the first few weeks, with all the young faces assembled on Harvard’s women’s lacrosse team. Of the 25 players on the roster this spring, only seven (five juniors and two seniors) have more than one season of varsity experience. And although a winning season is eluding them, the lacrosse…

It was one of the most horrific episodes in recent world history. Almost 400 villages in Northern Iraq were eliminated in 1987 and ’88 – with thousands of inhabitants allegedly murdered ???? and much of it is documented in top-secret military and security papers pilfered from the Iraqi government in the closing days of the…

Members of the Harvard community will have a chance to participate in the third International Conference on Internet & Society. The University is providing a forum for leading scholars, practitioners, and futurists to freely discuss and debate how the Internet will restructure and transform society in the 21st century. The Conference offers an interdisciplinary look…

Terry L. Murphy of Boston has been named managing editor of the Harvard University Gazette. A 20-year veteran of newspaper editing and reporting, Murphy was a copy editor at the Boston Herald. Prior to that she was features, photo, and graphics editor for the Niagara Gazette in Niagara Falls, N.Y. She also has held the…

Carnegie Mellon University has awarded its $50,000 Dickson Prize in Science to Howard Raiffa, the Frank P. Ramsey Professor in Managerial Economics, Emeritus, a pioneer in the field of decision analysis. Raiffa is an applied mathematician who works on complex decision problems. Through his research, teaching, and writing, he pursues ways that analysis can help…

Under threatening skies and windy conditions, over 300 Harvard tennis fans and alumni joined in the celebration to dedicate the new Beren Tennis Center. The ceremony, held on center court, featured comments by Harvard Dean of Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, Harvard Director of Athletics William J. Cleary, Men’s Tennis Head Coach David Fish ’75 and…

Alex S. Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and host of PBS’ Media Matters, has been named the new director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced Wednesday. “Alex Jones brings a breadth of knowledge and prestige…

Nationally eminent constitutional scholar and Dean of the Stanford Law School Kathleen Sullivan will deliver an address on “The Constitution in the Twenty-first Century” in Longfellow Hall on Appian Way on April 28 at 4 p.m. Sullivan’s is the premiere lecture of the new Radcliffe Institute Inaugural Lecture Series, which will continue throughout the next…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 15. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. April 9: Unit sent to the outside of Gund Hall on a report of hundreds of pairs of shoes all over the outside of the…

The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) supports direct student involvement in the arts to integrate creative thinking and expression into the undergraduate educational experience. Harvard students are embarking on a wide array of innovative artistic projects funded by the Office for the Arts, to be presented at ARTS FIRST, May 4-7, 2000. The…

April is Alcohol Awareness Month The Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) offers free, confidential help with alcohol problems to all Harvard faculty, staff, retirees, and their families. For telephone or in-person appointments, call (617) 495-HELP (495-4397). Radcliffe celebrates food in literature, May 7 The Radcliffe Culinary Friends at Schlwill present its spring culinary event,…

On a still spring night in Cambridge, more than 100 people gathered at Harvard Yard for a candlelight vigil and march to draw attention to the issue of violence against women. The event, held last Thursday, was part of the national “Take Back the Night” campaign, and was sponsored by the Coalition Against Sexual Violence,…

Three Selected for 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship Three members of Harvard’s faculty are among the 182 artists, scholars, and scientists awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. They include writers, painters, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers, choreographers,…

A group of Harvard undergraduates met in Athens, Greece, during spring break, March 25-29, to coordinate the World Model United Nations (WorldMUN). The diplomatic simulation allowed students, representing United Nations member-states, to draft resolutions on issues ranging from capital punishment to the situation in Kashmir. In a mock crisis, for example, the World Health Organization…

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It’s the Mail Jail – Harvard’s Dead Letter Office– and into it go letters and packages that are undeliverable because of incomplete addresses that often consist of just a name and “Harvard University.” And sometimes even a name is too much to ask. “We once got a four-foot box of dirt from China, just addressed…

By day, they hit the books and the labs, making the rounds in their academic pursuits. But by night, a talented coterie of School of Public Health (SPH), Medical School (HMS), and Dental School (HDS) students, known as the Longwood Players, take to the stage to rehearse for their upcoming production of West Side Story.…

A memorial service in honor of Murray B. Levin ’48, a retired political science professor who taught at Boston University and the Harvard Extension School, will be held on Friday, April 28, at 3 p.m. at Boston University’s Photonics Laboratory Building, Room 226, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston. Levin was a popular faculty member at…

“If you have ever experienced intolerable delays downloading a program or page, you understand the pitfalls of Internet congestion,” said Nathaniel Duca before a panel of science judges at the Medical School (HMS), sounding more like a new economy devotee at an upstart “dot.com” than a teen competing at a regional science fair. The event,…

WIRED WOMAN RAISES FUNDS FOR JIMMY FUND The Graduate School of Education’s Dayna Muller, whose vital signs were monitored while she ran the Boston Marathon last Monday, straddles the Wellesley-Newton town line prior to ascending Heartbreak Hill. Muller’s instrumented run is part of a new program to impress on the public how much science there…

Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has announced a new set of guidelines relating to the use of Harvard’s name and insignia in electronic contexts such as Web pages, e-mail addresses and Internet addresses. The guidelines spell out that such uses by members of the Harvard community need advance permission of the Provost or a Dean in…

The Harvard Defenders, a Harvard Law School student organization that provides legal representation to low-income persons accused of crimes, will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Saturday, April 29. The Harvard Defenders is a legal services organization that is dedicated to providing quality legal representation to people with low income in criminal show-cause hearings and welfare…

Sharon P. Clayborne, director of financial aid at Harvard Medical School, died on Thursday, April 13, at the age of 47. Clayborne tirelessly counseled students through the financial aid process. She was known for her acute memory for names and faces and her pleasure in the awards and accomplishments of the many students she helped…

Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus Abram Chayes, 77, who served as the Kennedy Administration’s chief international lawyer at the height of the Cold War and who taught at Harvard Law School (HLS) for more than four decades, died on Sunday, April 16, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, of complications from pancreatic cancer.…

Brain cells that make it possible for zebra finches to sing were forced to die then brought back to life by researchers at Harvard and Rockefeller universities. In a major biological first, quiescent stem cells naturally present in the birds’ brains were induced to replace the lost cells and restore the finches’ ability to sing…

Harvard Law School Professor Gary Bellow, the founder and former faculty director of the School’s Clinical Programs and a pioneering public interest lawyer, died on April 13 from cardiac arrest at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. He was a resident of Boston. Bellow was a specialist in the areas of public interest law and poverty…

Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree (from left), Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Mrs. Cecelia Marshall (wife of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall), John Marshall (Justice Marshall’s son), HLS Dean Robert Clark, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer attended the opening last weekend of an…