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Harvard University

Harvard activists push to purge Law School crest

CAMBRIDGE – Activists at Harvard Law School are asking the esteemed school to ditch the wheat. Student protesters claim the sheaves in the Harvard Law insignia "stain the school's contribution to humanity." The reason?

Yale

Union push gains steam among Yale, Harvard grad students

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Efforts to unionize graduate students at private universities are gaining momentum as the National Labor Relations Board shows new openness to arguments that they are not just students, but also school employees. A union for teaching assistants is in place at only one private U.S.

Democratic primary

Harvard law professor Lessig ends his presidential campaign

WASHINGTON (AP) — Harvard law professor Larry Lessig is ending his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. He blames the demise of his nearly three-month campaign on the Democratic Party, which he says leaves him "just shut out" of the primary debates. Lessig struggled to hit 1 percent in

Faith

In history of Jewish lawyers, Alan Dershowitz and Abraham are two of a kind

In his latest sharp-witted work, perhaps the world's most well-known Jewish lawyer profiles the man he considers to the first-ever Jewish lawyer: the biblical patriarch Abraham. Retired Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz, who has been called "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer&

boston

Harvard’s prestigious debate team loses to NY inmates

BOSTON (AP) — Months after winning a national title, Harvard's debate team has fallen to a group of New York inmates. The showdown took place at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison where convicts can take courses taught by faculty from nearby Bard College, and where

Massachusetts

Wacky science achievements honored at Harvard

Written by Mark Pratt BOSTON (AP) – A Cornell University graduate student who allowed honeybees to sting him in 25 places and a group of scientists who concluded it's possible for one man to father 888 children are among the winners of this year's Ig Nobels, which

boston

Commemorating T.S. Eliot

An anniversary has almost passed us by, unnoticed by the Boston media, and one eminently worthy of celebration. One hundred years ago, T.S. Eliot, the great poet who notably defined himself as "an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics," published his

Massachusetts

Medical schools leaders commit to pain management teaching

Written by Katie Lannan STATE HOUSE — In an effort to combat the ongoing opioid epidemic, state officials and deans of the four medical schools in Massachusetts have agreed to collaborate in the development of a set of principles to teach their students about pain management and safe prescribing of opioids.