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9/11 compensation bill tangled up in Beirut victims’ push

Tribune News Service · Dec 2, 2022

Princess of Wales shares skills and ideas with experts at Harvard University

The Princess of Wales spent half an hour with childhood experts at Harvard

Evening Standard · Dec 2, 2022

Penn Law will not submit data for US News rankings

PHILADELPHIA — Just as Harvard and Yale law schools announced last month, the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School said Friday it will not submit data to U.S. News and World Report for its rankings.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Dec 2, 2022

Just 1 in 20 people in the US have dodged COVID infection so far, study says

An estimated 94% of people in the U.S. have been infected with the COVID-19 virus at least once, according to according to a new paper from researchers at Harvard’s School of Public Health.

Tribune News Service · Nov 26, 2022

People with a strong life-purpose live longer

Yet another study has found that people with a strong purpose in life have less heart disease and are much less likely to die early.

The New Daily · Nov 26, 2022

‘They want toys to get their children into Harvard’: have we been getting playthings all wrong?

The long read: For decades we have been using toys to cram learning into playtime – and toys have increasingly been marketed as helping to turn children into prosperous, high-achieving adults. But it turns out this approach is all wrong

The Guardian - UK · Nov 24, 2022

POINT: Discrimination in education cannot be justified

The Supreme Court recently heard arguments from Harvard and the University of North Carolina about using race and ethnicity in admissions policies. Project 21, the Black Leadership Network of which I am a member, submitted an amicus brief in the Harvard case.

Tribune News Service · Nov 22, 2022

COUNTERPOINT: Americans of every race deserve a fair shot; affirmative action provides one

The Supreme Court recently heard arguments from Harvard and the University of North Carolina about using race and ethnicity in admissions policies. At stake is the fate of affirmative action and the positive effects that race-conscious policies have had on higher education and the workplace for more than 50 years.

Tribune News Service · Nov 22, 2022

The case for American Psycho: why this controversial book (sold here in shrink wrap) still matters

“I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.” That’s the novelist J.G. Ballard, explaining why he wrote what is arguably the most important novel of the 1970s, the scandalous Crash.

The Conversation · Nov 21, 2022

The Swiss mountain with a racist name – and the artist fighting to rechristen it

Agassizhorn is an alp in Switzerland named after a notorious scientist. Sasha Huber explains why she flew to the summit by helicopter and rechristened it Rentyhorn – in honour of an enslaved man

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2022