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Harvard grads will hear from Hollywood great Spielberg

CAMBRIDGE – Call it a case of the Ivy League going Hollywood. Harvard University will feature Academy Award-winning film director Steven Spielberg as its commencement speaker on May 26, the Cambridge school said Thursday. He'll be the star of the school's 365th graduation exercise.

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Harvard struggles to clarify sexual-conduct policies

CAMBRIDGE – This week's town hall-style meeting at Harvard University, billed as an event aimed at educating undergraduates on the school's new Title IX sexual-conduct policies, managed to leave some students feeling more confused about the changes, according to a Harvard Crimson report. The student newspaper reported

Massachusetts

Harvard Law bows to activist calls to drop slaveholder crest

CAMBRIDGE – Royall appears to be falling. Harvard Law School, which last year saw activist students demand that the institution scrub the emblem honoring the family of an early benefactor, Isaac Royall Jr., over his ownership of slaves 300 years ago, caved to pressures this week and voted to support dumping

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MIT hackers compete to shine spotlight on cybersecurity

BOSTON (AP) — Students from MIT and Britain's University of Cambridge will spend the weekend hacking one another's computers, with the blessing of their national leaders. The two schools are competing in a hacking contest that U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron

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Harvard and Title IX: Survey results in hand, policy debate endures

CAMBRIDGE — Harvard University remains at the forefront of the debate over campus sexual assault, even as a panel of Harvard students and professors meets to consider additional changes to the University's disciplinary procedures under Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination by educational institutions that receive

Massachusetts

Filmmakers seek to recreate Boston Marathon shootout

WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Producers of a Mark Wahlberg movie about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing want to recreate the police shootout with the Tsarnaev brothers in the Watertown neighborhood where it happened. Representatives for "Patriots Day" sent fliers to residents of Laurel Street this month asking for their

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Harvard grad claims school shirked responsibility in sexual assault case

CAMBRIDGE — An explosive lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court alleges that Harvard University ignored a student's plea to have an ex-boyfriend she claims repeatedly sexually assaulted her removed from the dorm where they lived. The plaintiff, who graduated last year, also notes in her complaint that the prestigious

Massachusetts

‘Love Story’ actors return to Harvard 45 years later

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Actors Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal rolled onto the Harvard campus Monday in an antique convertible similar to the one used in "Love Story" and reminisced about the film that made them household names nearly half a century ago. Both actors said in