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Barely two months after Sept. 11, students in Religion 1529 are grilling Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies and director of the Pluralism Project, on religious tolerance, respect, and understanding. A teaching fellow roams Science Center B with a microphone like a talk show hostess, amplifying questions that are as academic as they are heartfelt. What do you do when your religious beliefs insult anothers religion? How can we reconcile that religion, with its enormous capacity for peacemaking, can also promote violence? For 20 minutes after the class ends, students linger, vying for one-on-one time with Eck, who has spent much of the past weeks fielding similar questions from major news outlets.

Matthew Meselson, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, has been raising his voice in opposition to biological and chemical weapons since 1963. He investigated the largest known outbreak…

At its fourth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council received a report on the work of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies from the chair of the committee, Professor Lawrence Katz (economics).

Higginbotham remembered Brandeis University Professor Anita Hill joins Law Professor Charles Ogletree Jr. and others at the Law School on Monday (Nov. 5) to talk about the legacy of A.…

Nov. 24, 1873 – Charles Sprague Sargent officially begins a 54-year term as first Director of the Arnold Arboretum (est. 1872). Sargent soon enlists the aid of pioneering landscape architect…

KSG offers book tours on Web The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is offering book tours these days. Using the power of the Web, the school is highlighting recent publications…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 3. The official log is located at 29 Garden St.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates: Nov. 29 Dec. 13 Feb. 1,…

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William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd president of the United States, will deliver an address to Harvard Universitys students, faculty, and staff at 2:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, at the Albert H. Gordon Track and Tennis Center.

When the student came to University Health Services (UHS), he was afraid that he would never run again. Doctors in his native Italy had told him that he should stop running, a biting disappointment for someone who liked to play soccer.

More than 60 Harvard managers and human resources professionals learned how to hang on to valued employees when author Martha R.A. Fields discussed her book Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them. How to Keep Them last Tuesday (Oct. 30) in the Harvard Information Center. The event, sponsored by the Office of the Assistant to the President, brought together some of the areas top human resource managers for a lively panel discussion on employee retention. Top administrators at Fidelity Investments, Shell Oil Co., CISCO Systems, City Year, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were among the panelists who shared their organizations stories at the event and in Fields book.

Primed and prepped all season long, the 7-0 Harvard football team doesnt do downtime. No soon after taming the Columbia Lions (2-5, 2-3 Ivy) 45-33 last Saturday (Nov. 3) in Manhattan, the unbeaten Harvard football team had its sights set on the next (and biggest) test yet, an undefeated Penn team. Saturdays Ivy showdown of the unbeaten – the first of its kind since 1968 – assures the winner at least a share of the Ivy League title, something the Crimson last enjoyed in 1997.

Margaret Atwood, the recipient of the 2000 Booker Prize for her novel The Blind Assassin, will speak at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on Monday, Nov. 19, as part of the Deans Lecture Series. Atwood will deliver her talk, How I Became a Writer, at 4 p.m. at the First Church Congregational, 11 Garden St., in Cambridge. The event is free and open to the public. Atwood will sign copies of The Blind Assassin at a reception immediately following the lecture. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

The days just before Thanksgiving are reportedly the heaviest travel time of the year as millions of Americans board airliners to join distant family and friends for the holiday.

College students strongly support U.S.-led air strikes and the use of ground troops in Afghanistan although support is approximately 10 percent lower than the general population, according to a new survey of undergraduates throughout the country conducted by the Institute of Politics (IOP). The survey also found that trust in government and civic engagement has risen significantly among college students during the past 18 months.

Pu Zhang arrived in the United States from China in 1993, trained as a physician but unable to speak English fluently.

A plaque bearing the names of three Radcliffe women who died for their country in World War I will be unveiled at 11 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, in Harvards war memorial, the Memorial Church. The Harvard community is invited to attend the ceremony.

Ever since those horrifying moments when two passenger jetliners smashed into the World Trade Center towers seven weeks ago, Americans have been glued to their television sets with a seemingly insatiable appetite for information. And the TV networks have responded with a steady stream of around-the-clock coverage that has usurped the traditional formats and time constraints. The breadth and depth of coverage of the story is virtually unparalleled in television history.

The Community Gifts Through Harvard Campaign bears a special burden this year. The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 have created both material and psychological needs for many individuals. Even those not directly affected by the attacks have been shaken by them in ways that may not be immediately apparent.

More than 100 students from the Graduate School of Education (GSE) packed the Gutman Conference Center Monday (Nov. 5) to meet with President Lawrence H. Summers as part of the search for a new dean of the School. Calling the choice of a new GSE dean one of the most important appointments that I will make early in my presidency, Summers kept an open ear to student suggestions and concerns while making clear that not all of their criteria would – or should – influence his selection.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $3 million grant to Harvard University for a four – year national study of college science students. The goal of the study, to be carried out by the Harvard – Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), is to determine which methods of teaching science in high school best prepare students for college science classes.

The possibilities and the limits of negotiation in the post-Sept. 11 world will be examined by two of the worlds best-known negotiation scholars, Law School (HLS) professors Robert H. Mnookin and Roger Fisher. On Tuesday, Nov. 13, the two will discuss Afghanistan: Negotiating in the Face of Terrorism. The event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Program on Negotiation (PON) at HLS, the event will take place in Austin Hall North at 7 p.m.

Daniel J. Simons, Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, and Lionel Hall proctor Susan Wright received the first annual John H. Marquand Awards for exceptional advising and counseling at a reception Monday evening (Nov. 5). The prize, awarded to one faculty member and one nonfaculty adviser, honors legendary Dudley House senior tutor John H. Marquand.

What could be more fun than playing in the mud? Imagine this: Slippery mounds of oozing clay seeping through your fingers, dramatically changing shape under shifting pressures. Your eyes trained on a rising gray slab-becoming-cylinder, growing taller (and more delicate) as you guide, pull, stroke carefully up … wheel spinning, knees steady, back tense, a little more even pressure from both hands … gently lifting, lifting, steady, and then, then … Thwack! The 15-inch vase of your dreams flies across the room, hits a wall and slides down to the studio floor in a heap of gray slop. You get to clean up and start all over. New clay, new throwing determination, new dreamy vase/pot/bowl idea to obsess upon, and a host of witnesses who cant wait to watch you do it all over again. Theres nothing better.

Harvard’s women’s golf team finished its official fall season in solid standing, but the season’s high point came Oct. 28, when the team beat Yale in a scrimmage.

A fire in the Eliot House grill, located in the basement below M-Entry, forced the evacuation of approximately 430 Eliot House students Sunday night shortly after 8 p.m..

After a Bambi-like season opening flop this past Saturday (Nov. 3) against Brown – a 4-2 loss vs. a team projected to finish last in the ECAC – the Harvard mens hockey team (1-1-0, Ivy 1-1-0) sprang back with a sure-footed 5-2 win over Ivy rival Dartmouth on Sunday at home. Though the 15th – ranked Big Green managed an early 2-0 lead, Harvard stayed cool in skating to victory, producing five unanswered goals and 26 saves courtesy of goaltender Will Crothers 04.