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Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. , and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Full Article
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In this photo released by Harvard University, Professor of Genetics Jack W. Szostak is seen in his home in Boston Monday, Oct. 5, 2009 after learning he won a share of the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine.
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In this photo released by Harvard University, Professor of Genetics Jack W. Szostak is seen in his home in Boston Monday, Oct. 5, 2009 after learning he won a share of the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine.
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Drew Faust, President of Harvard University, sits for an interview at the Newseum in Washington, October 2, 2009. The interview was part of the First Draft of History event, held by the Atlantic Magazine and the Aspen Institute to bring together newsmakers, historians and journalists.
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Captain Agus Harimurti, Harvard University student and son of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, waves after being introduced at the beginning of his father's speech at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts September 29, 2...
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In this book cover released by Harvard University Press, "A Failure Of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression," by Richard Posner, is shown.
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Retired Harvard librarian Sylvia McDowell stands by the gravestone for John Jay Smith at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Boston, Friday Sept. 11, 2009.
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FILE - This April 2003 photo provided by Harvard University shows Elena Kagan.
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RIMINI, ITALY - AUGUST 25: Edward Green, Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, speaks during the 30th meeting of Friendship among the Peoples on August 25, 2009 in Rimini, Italy.
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RIMINI, ITALY - AUGUST 25: Edward Green, Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, speaks during the 30th meeting of Friendship among the Peoples on August 25, 2009 in Rimini, Italy.
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RIMINI, ITALY - AUGUST 25: Edward Green, Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, speaks during the 30th meeting of Friendship among the Peoples on August 25, 2009 in Rimini, Italy.
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RIMINI, ITALY - AUGUST 25: Edward Green, Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, speaks during the 30th meeting of Friendship among the Peoples on August 25, 2009 in Rimini, Italy.
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Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , autographs copies of his new book, "In Search of Our Roots" after speaking at the Martha's Vineyard book festival in Chilmark, Mass. , Sunday morning, Aug. 2, 2009.
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Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , autographs copies of his new book, "In Search of Our Roots" after speaking at the Martha's Vineyard book festival in Chilmark, Mass. , Sunday morning, Aug. 2, 2009.
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Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , speaks during the Martha's Vineyard book festival in Chilmark, Mass. , Sunday morning, Aug. 2, 2009.
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Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , speaks during the Martha's Vineyard book festival in Chilmark, Mass. , Sunday morning, Aug. 2, 2009.
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Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , speaks during the Martha's Vineyard book festival in Chilmark, Mass. , Sunday morning, Aug. 2, 2009.
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Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , walks with fellow Yale University graduate Tom Milch as Gates arrives at the Martha's Vineyard book festival in Chilmark, Mass. , Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009.
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President Barack Obama has a beer with Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. , left and Cambridge, Mass. , police Sgt. James Crowley, right, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 30, 2009.
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President Barack Obama has a beer with Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. , left and Cambridge, Mass. , police Sgt. James Crowley, right, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 30, 2009.
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President Barack Obama, right, has a beer with Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. , second from left, and Cambridge, Mass. , police Sgt. James Crowley in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington Thursday, July 30, 2009.
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Vice President Joe Biden, left, has a beer with Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. , second from left, and Cambridge, Mass. , police Sgt. James Crowley with President Barack Obama, not pictured, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington Thursday, July 30, 2009.
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FILE - This Aug. 23, 2006 file photo shows Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , during a book signing moments before the screening of a segment of the Spike Lee documentary called "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts," at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown, M...
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CAMBRIDGE, MA - JULY 30: The home of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. , is seen on Ware Street July 30, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gates, along with Cambridge police officer James Crowley, will meet today with U.S. President Barack Obama for a sit down and a beer.
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CAMBRIDGE, MA - JULY 30: The home of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. , is seen on Ware Street July 30, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gates, along with Cambridge police officer James Crowley, will meet today with U.S. President Barack Obama for a sit down and a beer.
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CAMBRIDGE, MA - JULY 30: The home of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. , is seen on Ware Street July 30, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gates, along with Cambridge police officer James Crowley, will meet today with U.S. President Barack Obama for a sit down and a beer.
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In this photo released by Harvard University, Professor of Genetics Jack W. Szostak is seen in his home in Boston Monday, Oct. 5, 2009 after learning he won a share of the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine.
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When it comes down to it, the HYP meet and Ivy League conference meet are always going to be close between Harvard and Princeton ... It’s literally been us and Harvard going back and forth with championships for 17 years.
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On November 30th, hundreds of middle school students and teachers will assemble at the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, along with untold thousands of their electronically-linked peers, to take part in a giant show-and-tell webcast featuring
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Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy stuck-ups and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirts, no matter how hot the weather gets.
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We have engineers who have come out of Harvard, MIT, WPI ... Having that brainpower available and the ability to hire from these great institutions is a great base for us.
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Well, the Yale team that we’re preparing for is the team that drubbed Dartmouth (38-7), the team that has looked like a very good football team, at times, because that’s what Harvard is going to bring out and that’s what they (Yale) are capable of
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I want to match the standards of clinical care, research and education offered by the likes of Mayo/Harvard and the Cleveland Clinics, while making treatment affordable
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If you looked at the body of work of both teams, I think most people would say that Harvard has the edge ... We talked about having that chip on your shoulder the whole year anyways. This Yale football team, people didn't (expect) much from the team, and we tried to prove as many people wrong as we coul...
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Barack equaled Harvard, someone like 50 Cent equaled hood; hood equaled virility, Harvard equaled impotence.
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The Comcast case wasn't an anecdote. It was a full-on complaint that affected millions. Associated Press and the Electronic Frontier Foundation documented the problems when BitTorrent users tried to share the King James Bible. The FCC held two hearings on the issue at Harvard and Stanford. Even Comcast ...
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Cornell accepted one fewer Japanese student than Stanford University and noticeably more than Harvard, Columbia and Princeton
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You can go through a two-year (MBA) course at Harvard, Chicago, Stanford or Wharton and not be required to take one course in Sales 101
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It was a fair draw ... There are some teams out there that have a shot: Serra, Pioneer Valley, St. Joseph/Santa Maria and Cathedral. Harvard-Westlake beat Alemany, so you know that they’re good.
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You know, the sportswriters aren’t right very often ... But if you actually go back to the preseason poll: No. 1, 2 and 3 had Harvard, Penn and Brown.
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Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who was forced to resign because he used prostitutes, will deliver a lecture tomorrow at the Harvard center for Ethics (organized by Prof. Lawrence Lessig - Bob). Yeah, if you want to check out the speech, it costs $500 for half an hour, $900 if you want to stay f...
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I’ve had e-mails from China, Harvard, all over the U.S., France
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He has the most credentials for running for election – first in Harvard, then in Illinois, where he [spent his time] running for the U.S. Senate; and while in the Senate, he was running for President, and now he is running for his second term.
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we are not going to have a Harvard or a Google here.
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That two-football-field-sized hole in the ground is being boarded up because of the financial crash ... But if we could get federal stimulus dollars as well as state, private and investments by Harvard and MIT of up to $500 million, we could create a research center that would create thousands of jobs.
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If we do well with West Virginia … it will give us confidence, and hopefully it will set us up for some good races at Harvard and then continue on for the rest of the season
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I've really only looked at Andrew and a few other ones ... Ultimately what I'd like to be able to do ... is to go back and digitize analog seismograms that existed since the 1930s at stations near Harvard, Mass., and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Harvard was fine, but California was the only place to be if you wanted to be a part of the revolution.
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Teach for America has 10 times the applications than it has slots, with graduates from Princeton, Harvard, Stanford and the University of Michigan. Unteach at the University of Texas-Austin has many more enrolled than they can immediately place. It’s simply not true that college students are only intere...
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We hear all over the country about rivalries ... UCLA-USC, Auburn-Alabama, Yale and Harvard, Florida-Florida State, Duke-North Carolina. We hear about that, all of those. There's none as unique as this one.
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Harvard has said that it needs further dialogue for taking a decision on the issue of opening campus or offering courses through partnership basis. Boston University will send a delegation in January
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Can we build a world class university by 2020. No. Harvard University was started in 1636. It takes years. But, can we set the foundation for a world class university? Yes
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