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Interesting New Contractual Due Process Lawsuit by Former Harvard Business School Professor

The case, filed by, among others, lawyer and FIRE co-founder Harvey Silverglate, is Edelman v. President & Fellows of Harvard College; an excerpt: Plaintiff Benjamin Edelman brings this suit in law and equity to correct the harm that Harvard University has caused to his career, livelihood, and reputation by unlawfully…

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A diverse Supreme Court grapples with affirmative action, with its justices of color split sharply on the meaning of 'equal protection'

The United States Supreme Court is deciding a pair of cases that could end affirmative action programs that consider race in college admissions.

The Conversation

Noah Feldman: Ethics code wouldn’t fix Supreme Court’s legitimacy crisis

Pressure is rising on the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt an ethics code. On its face, this sounds reasonable. What’s not to like about ethics? But it’s worth asking what problem the change would solve.

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These Easy Practices Could Significantly Reduce Your Risk of Long Covid

A public health study from Harvard shows that six typical health habits halve the risk that one will develop long Covid.

Inverse

"The Rise and Fall of Jews at Law Schools"

An interesting essay by New York Law School professor Rebecca Roiphe. A taste:Many, if not most, students have bought into academic lessons peddled in the 1980s and '90s as an outgrowth of what's often called critical legal theory. Among them: Law is not a neutral institution designed to ensure the…

Reason

College Basketball Predictions For Every Game. Saturday, February 11

College basketball predictions for every game along with the schedule, game times, and how to watch on Saturday, February 11

USA Today Sports Media Group

Commentary: Facebookopoly

The recent news is that Facebook’s parent, Meta, had record earnings that have driven the stock up over 20% in trading. In the world of social media, Facebook is ubiquitous. Coming from humble beginnings as a Harvard student’s pet project, it’s now expanded to 2.89 billion users worldwide, making it…

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Modi skips the A-word, leaves Rahul Gandhi’s 5 questions unanswered

Facing a volley of allegations linked to the Adani Group controversy during the stormy budget session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday hit back at the opposition’s charges. But did he?

Newslaundry

Forget regret! How to have a happy life – according to the world’s leading expert

For 84 years, the Harvard Study of Adult Development has tracked the lives of hundreds of Americans. Now its director, Robert Waldinger, is explaining what it has taught him about health and fulfilment

The Guardian - UK

Editorial: A welcome revolt against the flawed college ranking system

A handful of top medical schools, including Stanford and Columbia, pulled out of U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings in January, following a similar exodus of more than a dozen law schools, including UC Berkeley, Yale and Harvard, late last year. It’s a welcome development that is overdue. Undergraduate…

Los Angeles Times

Want to be culturally sensitive? Start by saying my name right

In a country where many were either born overseas or have at least one parent born elsewhere, there should be no place for intellectual laziness and complacency

The Guardian - AU

Chanting Harvard students walk out of lecture by professor accused of groping and harassment

More than 100 Harvard students chanted ‘justice for survivors’ as embattled professor John Comaroff began his first lecture of the semester on Tuesday

The Independent UK

Robin Abcarian: Two universities that tried to squelch academic freedom have backtracked. Here's hoping that's a trend

I thought my mind was playing tricks on me when I first read that Kenneth Roth, who led Human Rights Watch for three decades, had been disinvited to a fellowship at Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights.

Los Angeles Times

The female Scottish astronomer who discovered the famous Horsehead Nebula

TODAY, I am writing about one of the most remarkable Scottish women scientists that ever lived, Williamina Fleming ...

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Kim Kardashian's Harvard Business School lecture made the internet lose its mind

The reality TV star received backlash even though her SKIMS shapewear brand has a multi-billion dollar valuation.

Salon

Don't trust Big Pharma's ads, study says

Yale and Harvard researchers found the drugs with big ad spends aren't generally the best drugs. Here's why

The New Daily

Scientists make mice grow old and young again. Are people next?

An Australian scientists has cracked the code for ageing. He made lab mice grow old and then young again. Are people next?

Fortune

What the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action would mean for Corporate America

The Supreme Court is expected to rule on affirmative action this June. Companies must prepare for the impact on diversity efforts now, experts say.

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The Independent UK

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

Newsroom.co.nz

Scourge at home, 'superstar' in international markets

Jacinda Ardern may have been increasingly unpopular with businesses in New Zealand, but international trade relations experts say we've benefitted from her status abroad.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘You People’ weighs down powerhouse cast with maddeningly obvious racial humor

Heavy-handed Netflix comedy puts Eddie Murphy, Jonah Hill and other greats into conversations that lack any nuance.

Reason

"Harvard Reverses Course on Human Rights Advocate Who Criticized Israel"

From the New York Times (Jennifer Schuessler & Marc Tracy): The Harvard Kennedy School reversed course on Thursday and said it would offer a fellowship to a leading human rights advocate it had previously rejected, after news of the decision touched off a public outcry over academic freedom, donor influence…

The Guardian - US

Harvard reverses decision on role for Israel critic after outcry

Kennedy School dean initially refused ex-Human Rights Watch head Kenneth Roth a fellowship over criticisms of Israel

Caixin Global

Harvard-Trained Former PBOC Deputy Governor Appointed Beijing Mayor

Yin Yong replaces Chen Jining, who was named Shanghai’s Communist Party secretary

The Guardian - UK

What connects apocalyptic drama The Last of Us to Ted Cruz and Gores Al and Vidal?

Connections are everything, as we trace the links between scriptwriter Craig Mazin and his college roommate Cruz, via Harvard chums Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones, to Richard Harris’s son Jared

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