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BOSTON – Does attending church give you a longer life? A Harvard University study shows a significant proportion of women who went to services more than once a week lived longer than those who never attended religious services. For the Nurses' Health Study, researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan
Democrats
CAMBRIDGE – Harvard University faculty who made political donations at the federal level overwhelmingly contributed to Democrats or liberal organizations, a review of data from the Federal Election Commission shows. As an institution, Harvard has long had a reputation for leaning left. The campaign finance data provide a limited but revealing
Harvard University
CAMBRIDGE – Five candidates for Harvard University's Board of Overseers who campaigned on a platform calling for free tuition and making admissions more transparent have come up short. On Monday, Harvard announced the five winning candidates who emerged from a field of 13. The new members include the president
Massachusetts
MADISON, Wisc. – One of the nation's leading organizations serving Christian college students has named Tom Lin its next leader. He will become InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA's first Asian-American president in August. Lin, 43, will take over InterVarsity, an evangelical organization, as it enters its 75th year
crime
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A graduate of the St. Paul's School convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old freshman girl as part of a game of sexual conquest will again be free pending his appeal. Owen Labrie's bail was revoked in March after he admitted violating his
Cambridge
CAMBRIDGE – Women in Harvard College sororities and other gender-exclusive organizations are fighting back after administrators at the Ivy League school announced that future students who join off-campus single-sex social groups will be banned from holding campus leadership posts and from pursuing prestigious post-graduate opportunities like Marshall and Rhodes scholarships. The
Harvard University
CAMBRIDGE – Harvard University imposed harsh penalties on off-campus social groups Friday, targeting all-male Final Clubs – some that are centuries old – in the latest attempt by administrators to deal with a purported epidemic of sexual abuse at the Ivy League institution. Future members of exclusive single-sex social clubs, including fraternities and
Harvard University
Just before Passover Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold died at the age of 92. The longtime director of Harvard Hillel, he had grown up in a Hasidic community in central Poland and was sometimes referred to as the Harvarder rebbe — a semi-joke that conveyed a truth about the man. I first got
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