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  • July 2008

    • Yoga Turning B-Schoolers on Their Heads

      newser  |  BusinessWeek  |  Jul 20, 08 7:37 PM CDT

      Yoga Turning B-Schoolers on Their Heads

      Inner peace through capitalism? Americans spend $5.7 billion a year on yoga classes and products, and now, BusinessWeek reports, yoga clubs are cropping up in some of the country's most high-pressured institutions: top business schools. "Having a yoga practice helped sort through the white noise," one MIT student said. More »

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      business  • Harvard  • MIT  • stress  • University of Chicago  • Northwestern University  • business school  • capitalism  • yoga  • BusinessWeek

    • Idealism Met Different End for Obama Sr.

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jul 17, 08 4:03 PM CDT

      Idealism Met Different End for Obama Sr.

      Like his candidate son, Barack Obama Sr. was charismatic, eloquent and idealistic, those who knew him say—so idealistic he was devastated by the corruption he saw in his native Kenya. The Harvard grad was so disillusioned upon his return to Africa, the Los Angeles Times reports, he turned to drink, with several DUI accidents preceding the car crash that killed him, at 46, in 1982. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Kenya  • Harvard  • alcoholism

  • June 2008
  • May 2008

    • Pinched Oxford Wants $2.5B

      newser  |  Christian Science Monitor  |  May 29, 08 7:08 AM CDT

      Pinched Oxford Wants $2.5B

      Prestigious Oxford University is pleading poverty and has begun a campaign to raise funds to make it competitive with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton for academic talent, reports the Christian Science Monitor. The university—actually a collection of individual colleges—aims to raise $2.5 billion, but even that is chump change compared to Harvard's $34 billion endowment. More »

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      Harvard  • Oxford University  • endowment  • Yale  • Cambridge University  • Princeton  • alumni

    • Best Alma Maters for Billionaires

      newser  |  Forbes  |  May 22, 08 3:00 PM CDT

      Best Alma Maters for Billionaires

      Bill Gates and Carl Icahn may be college dropouts (Harvard and NYU, respectively), but most billionaires carry a sheepskin diploma with them. These top-tier universities have educated the most billionaires: Harvard: with 50, including Steve Ballmer, Michael Bloomberg, and Sumner Redstone. Stanford: was founded by a billionaire and counts 30 among alumni, including  Nike founder Phil Knight and Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page. University of Pennsylvania: 27, mostly products of its prestigious Wharton School. Alums include The Donald and SAC Capital founder Steven Cohen. Yale: 19,  including Sears chair Eddie Lampert and private equity guru Stephen Schwarzman. Columbia: holds 15, most notably some guy named Warren Buffet. More »

    • Pregnancy Stress Ups Kid's Asthma Risk

      newser  |  Reuters  |  May 19, 08 4:12 PM CDT

      Pregnancy Stress Ups Kid's Asthma Risk

      Stress an expectant mother experiences can increase her child’s predisposition to allergies and asthma, Reuters reports. Mothers-to-be with high stress levels gave birth to babies with high levels of an immune compound involved in the allergenic response, Harvard researchers found—even when their environmental exposure to allergens was low. More »

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      pregnancy  • Harvard  • stress  • mothers  • infant  • immune system  • infants  • allergic reaction

    • Mistress Recalls Mailer Sex Roles

      newser  |  New York Post  |  May 5, 08 11:58 AM CDT

      Mistress Recalls Mailer Sex Roles

      Norman Mailer’s fanciful sex life is giving his best-selling books a run for their money as his legacy, the New York Post reports. Mailer's longtime lover Carole Mallory—who recently hawked her X-rated writings about Mailer's sexual experimentation to Harvard—says the Pulitzer Prize-winner "liked me to dress up in erotic outfits, and we'd role play." His favorites revolved around Hollywood. More »

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      sex  • Harvard  • affair  • Norman Mailer  • Carole Mallory

  • April 2008

    • Harvard Gets $100M From Rockefeller

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 25, 08 3:02 PM CDT

      Harvard Gets $100M From Rockefeller

      Harvard fund managers rejoice! The university will get to stock its coffers, already $35 billion strong, with a $100 million gift from David Rockefeller, the largest ever by an alumnus, the New York Times reports. The money will be used to expand the university's arts program and help more students study abroad. “I was a student, class of 1936," said the billionaire banker. "My experiences there shaped who I am.” More »

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      Harvard  • philanthropy  • Ivy League  • endowment

    • Harvard Buys Mailer Mistress' Lusty Litany

      newser  |  New York Post  |  Apr 23, 08 3:51 PM CDT

      Harvard Buys Mailer Mistress' Lusty Litany

      Harvard missed out on acquiring the papers of late novelist Norman Mailer, but it's bought the next-best thing—those of his longtime mistress Carole Mallory, the New York Post reports. The package includes a 20-page sex scene from an unpublished memoir called Making Love With Norman. "Norman was a real man and he knew what he was doing," Mallory says. More »

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      Harvard  • Norman Mailer  • Carole Mallory

    • 'Chicago Was His Harvard of Politics'

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 21, 08 12:26 PM CDT

      'Chicago Was His Harvard of Politics'

      Barack Obama’s unconventional personal background contrasts sharply with the roots of his political instincts and career. In Chicago's patronage-happy system, the young pol learned to break bread with conservatives, play to the black masses, and even get his back up when necessary. The Wall Street Journal examines the candidate’s years in Chicago. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Chicago  • Harvard  • African-American voters  • bipartisanship

    • Facebook and Rival Settling Origins Lawsuit

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 7, 08 2:01 PM CDT

      Facebook and Rival Settling Origins Lawsuit

      Pending lawsuits between Facebook and rival social networking site ConnectU will be settled, a source tells the New York Times . The founders of ConnectU accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their ideas back when both sites were in their infancy, and the Facebook CEO filed a countersuit against his former Harvard classmates. Terms of the settlement haven't been disclosed. More »

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      lawsuit  • Facebook  • Harvard  • settlement  • Mark Zuckerberg  • ConnectU  • Cameron Winklevoss  • Tyler Winklevoss  • Divya Narendra

    • Top Colleges Report Record Low Rates of Admission

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 1, 08 3:01 PM CDT

      Top Colleges Report Record Low Rates of Admission

      Acceptance letters from the nation's top colleges will begin to arrive on prospective students' doorsteps today, but far more rejection letters are in the mail than ever before, reports the New York Times. Harvard and Yale accepted only 7.1% and 8.3% of applicants, respectively, both record lows as schools struggle with changing demographics. More »

  • March 2008

    • Bravo to Harvard for Women-Only Gym Hours

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Mar 26, 08 7:44 PM CDT

      Bravo to Harvard for Women-Only Gym Hours

      Harvard was right to close a gym to men for six hours each week so Muslim women can exercise in comfort, Ruth Marcus writes in the Washington Post . Bloggers might be charging “Sharia at Harvard” and some students might be exercised about another decision to broadcast calls to prayer during Islamic Awareness Week, but the new policies are merely “reasonable accommodation.” More »

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      Harvard  • Muslims  • hijabs

    • Ivy Aid May Hit 2nd-Tier Schools

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Mar 5, 08 12:35 PM CST

      Ivy Aid May Hit 2nd-Tier Schools

      It’s easy to applaud the generosity the Ivy League is lavishing on the middle class, but it could have unintended consequences, Newsweek notes. Second-tier schools and elite public universities rely on the highly talented middle-class kids Harvard and company are targeting. “Schools compete hard for those students,” said Colgate’s VP of finances. But Colgate’s $700 million can’t compete with Harvard’s $34 billion war chest. More »

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      Harvard  • higher education  • middle class  • Ivy League  • endowment  • financial aid

    • Harvard Begins Women-Only Gym Hours

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Mar 5, 08 10:49 AM CST

      Harvard Begins Women-Only Gym Hours

      Harvard is trying out women-only gym hours at one of its facilities to make exercising easier for Muslim women. Six of the 70 hours a week that the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center is open will be barred to men so that Muslim women feel free to dress appropriately for working out, reports the AP. But some students complain that the new policy is sexist or unfair. More »

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      Islam  • athlete  • exercise  • Harvard  • sexism  • Muslim  • Muslim women  • gym  • Muslim Americans

    • Harvard Hoops Recruiting Questioned

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Mar 1, 08 5:03 PM CST

      Harvard Hoops Recruiting Questioned

      Harvard may have done some un-Ivy League like things to upgrade its basketball program, reports the New York Times . Harvard, which hasn't played in the NCAA Tournament since 1946, is coming under fire for its recruiting tactics. “We don’t know how all this is going to come out, but we could not get involved with many of the kids that they are bringing in," said Yale coach James Jones. More »

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      NCAA basketball  • Harvard  • Ivy League  • recruiting  • James Jones

  • February 2008

    • Obama Camp Wields Steely Secret Weapon: Mrs. O

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Feb 14, 08 11:00 AM CST

      Obama Camp Wields Steely Secret Weapon: Mrs. O

      Outspoken and gutsy but sometimes sarcastic and condescending, Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, is playing a central role in his campaign as it builds toward a final showdown. Known as "The Closer" behind the scenes, the 44-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer puts steel into the campaign while Obama stays above the fray, reports the New York Times .   More »

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      Barack Obama  • Chicago  • Michelle Obama  • Harvard  • Princeton  • Craig Robinson  • Valerie Jarrett

    • Harvard Profs' Research Will Be Free on Web

      newser  |  Boston Globe  |  Feb 13, 08 1:35 PM CST

      Harvard Profs' Research Will Be Free on Web

      In a move that could bring a major change to the culture of academia, the arts and sciences faculty of Harvard University yesterday voted unanimously to distribute their scholarship online for free rather than signing exclusive deals with obscure, often expensive scholarly journals. Journal officials worry, the Boston Globe reports, that the move threatens the peer-review process. More »

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      Internet  • Harvard  • professor  • academia  • journals

    • Century Mark Within Reach for Many

      newser  |  Boston Globe  |  Feb 12, 08 9:50 AM CST

      Century Mark Within Reach for Many

      Even people with heart disease or diabetes can hit the century mark if they take care of themselves, two new studies say. The trick for living to 100 is managing illness well enough to stay independent. "It's kind of a threesome: get more years, better years, and better function," the lead author of one study told the Boston Globe. More »

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      science  • elderly  • Boston  • Harvard  • health research  • longevity  • lifestyle  • healthy habits

    • Potomac Leaders Differ on Dem Picks

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Feb 8, 08 7:00 PM CST

      Potomac Leaders Differ on Dem Picks

      The three chief executives in Tuesday’s Potomac Primary don't agree on a candidate—it's two for Obama, one for Clinton—but all have strong ties with their candidate of choice, the Washington Post reports. And all three endorsed early: Virginia's Tim Kaine was the first governor outside Illinois to endorse Obama. They met in 2005 and struck an instant friendship: Both are Harvard law graduates who worked in civil rights; both have mothers with ties to the same small town in Kansas. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Harvard  • Potomac Primary  • Tim Kaine  • Adrian Fenty

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