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This week in New England history: Feb. 15-21
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Wellesley College names first black president
WELLESLEY – Wellesley College named its first black leader Thursday, announcing Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Paula Johnson as the elite institution's 14th president. Johnson currently leads the women's health division at the medical school in Boston as well as the Connors Center for Women's
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‘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
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Brains vs. blizzards: Harvard students take on snow removal
BOSTON (AP) — Winter is bearing down anew, and Harvard University students have been engineering new ways to deal with it. Eighteen juniors representing several engineering disciplines in professor David Mooney's problem-solving and design class spent the fall semester inventing a robotic remote-control rooftop snowblower, a superheated icicle cutter
Yale
Holiday magic aswirl, Christmas spirit lifts in song
BOSTON – When the Yale Glee Club began an impromptu rendition of the Christmas classic, "Carol of the Bells," aboard a moving Metro-North commuter train in Connecticut, last week, train conductor Bob McDonough immediately sprang into action. Using his ticket puncher, as shown in this Associated Press video, he
Elizabeth Warren
Amid activism, some Harvard Law students feel silenced
CAMBRIDGE — Bill Barlow, a third year student at Harvard Law School, won't shy away from challenging student activists who are demanding the school erase any references to its slaveholding founder and insisting that students be forced to take classes taught from the Critical Race perspective. Yet Barlow, who
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Here’s what college students should be protesting
Everyone in America today seems frustrated with the status quo, especially college students who've recently made headlines protesting the racial climate on campus. Racial equality is a noble ideal, and protesters would do well to engage in a civil discussion of the issue. But there's another
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The language of the Left
"Political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness" — George Orwell from "Politics and the English Language" (1946) What would George Orwell, who once described his own work in "Selected Writings" as "against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism,"
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