Keyword Results ( "Africa" )

1. Jeffrey Sachs (again)

Tribe Posting : Spotlight : 04/29/2008

At last, a Madonna-Harvard connection.

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1. The Internationalist

Tribe Posting : Spotlight : 04/22/2008

Newsweek Editor Fareed Zakaria on the future of the Muslim world, whether American kids are decadent, and what we can learn from the Swiss.

2. A Harvard Feud

Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 04/21/2008

And it's a three-way, to boot: Wieseltier v. Sullivan v. Kristol.

3. Harvard college leader is selected: Dean will be first African-American, woman in position

Tribe Posting : Names in the News : 03/05/2008

Evelynn Hammonds, GSAS (1986), Ph.D 1993

4. Books: Food for Thought

Magazine Archives Article : March/April 2008

With spring imminent, which authors are about to bloom?

5. Scenes From a Marriage

Magazine Archives Article : March/April 2008

The connections between the two H’s are nearly as old as the film industry itself. Some of the highlights ...

6. Considering TheRoot.com

Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 01/30/2008

Skip Gates calls his new online venture a magazine? But is the whole thing really advertorial for his DNA testing company?

7. GE records annual revenue of $8b from Middle East and Africa businesses

Tribe Posting : Names in the News : 01/29/2008

Jeffrey Immelt, MBA 1982

8. Skip Gates Gets Busier

Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 01/28/2008

The University Professor is promoting a new online mag for African-Americans that doubles as a feeder for clients for his new DNA researching business.

9. PepsiCo announces initiatives with the Earth Institute and H2O Africa to drive sustainable water practices

Tribe Posting : Names in the News : 01/23/2008

Matt Damon, College (1992)

10. Liz Mermin, A.B. 1993

Tribe Posting : Spotlight : 12/21/2007

In her January 2008, UK-release documentary Shot In Bombay, Mermin captures the behind-the-scenes drama of the making and release of a Bollywood film, Shootout at Lokhandwala, featuring Bollywood screen legend Sanjay Dutt in his last film before serving a six-year prison sentence for illegal arms possession related to the perpetrators of the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts. The chaos surrounding Dutt’s court case and dramatic displays of adoration and condemnation the proceedings provoked from the stars' fans drove the volatile plot for Mermin’s documentary.

11. Liberia Tries Democracy With New Leader

Tribe Posting : Names in the News : 12/17/2007

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, MPA '71

12. Uncovering The Klan

Magazine Archives Article : November/December 2007

Two pop economists crunch the numbers on America's most infamous hate group.

13. Sword's Play

Magazine Archives Article : November/December 2007

Leslie Lewis Sword is taking the world by stage.

14. Passions Giving Guide

Magazine Archives Article : November/December 2007

Whether you're interested in donating money or time, here are some Crimson-connected nonprofits you might want to consider.

15. Rewriting Harvard

Magazine Archives Article : November/December 2007

Wiki revisionism

16. Up For Debate

Magazine Archives Article : November/December 2007

Denzel Washington takes on the Harvard debate team.

17. Making Nice with ROTC

Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 11/09/2007

A leading Harvard professor says it's time for Harvard to restore normal relations with the military.

18. Caroline M. Hoxby, AB '88

Tribe Posting : Names in the News : 10/31/2007

One of Harvard's top economists - and only African-American economics professor - has been lured away by Stanford. The Wall Street Journal recently stated this was 'possibly the biggest catch' yet in academia.

19. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, A.B. ’76

Tribe Posting : Spotlight : 10/30/2007

In Nigeria she earned the nickname Okonjo-Wahala, or Trouble Woman, for her aggressive anti-corruption measures.

20. Philippe Wamba, AB '92

Tribe Posting : Names in the News : 10/12/2007

Africa: Philippe Wamba - New Pan-African Generation

21. Ellen-Johnson Sirleaf, MPA '71

Tribe Posting : Names in the News : 09/21/2007

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as President of Liberia. The country’s maritime code has become quiet inconvenient to national security.

22. The Culture Calendar

Magazine Archives Article : September / October 2007

The arts around the world this fall.

23. A Death in New Orleans

Magazine Archives Article : September / October 2007

Young and in love, Paul Gailiunas and Helen Hill moved to New Orleans to live their dreams and make the world a better place. But on one terrifying post-Katrina morning, their dreams turned into nightmares—and now the survivors are struggling to rescue hope from tragedy.

24. We Know What You Did Last Summer

Magazine Archives Article : September / October 2007

Think you had a busy summer? These alums just may put you to shame.

25. The Harvard 100

Magazine Archives Article : September / October 2007

It's back! Our second annual list of the university's most influential alumni.

26. The Justification of Cornel West

Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 08/13/2007

All the attention Cornel West's new record is getting revives old questions about his Harvard experience.

27. Jack Valenti, MBA '48

Tribe Posting : Names in the News : 07/16/2007

East African Standard

28. Denzel Comes to Harvard

Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 07/13/2007

The African-American filmmaker gets permisssion to film at Harvard.

29. Ronald Suresh Roberts, LL.M ’91

Tribe Posting : Spotlight : 06/27/2007

No stranger to controversy, Roberts, a political commentator and author, is making enemies again with his newest book on South Africa's president, Fit to Govern: The Native Intelligence of Thabo Mbeki. The book, released this month by STE Publishers, undertakes what the Mail & Guardian calls “the first systematic defence of Mbeki’s controversial presidency”—a move not likely to endear Roberts to Mbeki’s abundant critics.

30. Hip-Hop Hustles Back to Harvard

Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 05/25/2007

Harvard has just offered tenure to a professor of hip-hop it already rejected once. What's changed?

31. It’s Not Exactly Lying

Magazine Archives Article : May/June 2007

Filling out the admissions application has always been a creative endeavor.

32. The Company of Mira Nair

Magazine Archives Article : May/June 2007

The Indian filmmaker discusses her movies, her characters, and her own history.

33. A Few God Men

Magazine Archives Article : May/June 2007

Phillip E. Johnson went to Harvard, opposed the Vietnam War, and taught at Berkeley. But, along with two college peers, Johnson has also devoted his life to promoting intelligent design. The true story of three former liberals and their fight to put God back in our schools.

34. How to Run Harvard

Magazine Archives Article : May/June 2007

What Drew Faust can learn from Derek Bok.

35. Too Principled to Win?

Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 04/16/2007

The New York Times reports that Harvard's new basketball coach has some serious baggage—his principles.

36. Why Not, Al?

Magazine Archives Article : Spring 2007

Al Gore was at Harvard during tumultuous times, which shaped the steady, considered politician he became. That’s why his former teacher thinks he should run.

37. What Harvard Taught Barack

Magazine Archives Article : Spring 2007

At the Law School, Barack Obama learned to pick his battles, make as few enemies as possible, and press for real-world change. Can that same strategy take him to the White House?

38. There Goes the Neighborhood

Magazine Archives Article : Spring 2007

A Cambridge academic brat discovers her African American roots a stone’s throw from Harvard Square.

39. Harvard For Sale

Magazine Archives Article : Spring 2007

What would it take for you to buy a piece of Harvard?

40. Mark Moffett, Ph.D. ’87

Tribe Posting : Spotlight : 01/11/2007

“I like to photograph things that have been considered impossible, or have never been shown before,” Mark Moffett says. Moffett—alias “Doctor Bugs”—has risen to prominence for snapping such rarities as a tarantula shedding its skin, which it does just once every year, and a Colombian golden dart frog that only three non-locals have seen alive—and that packs enough poison to be fatal to one thousand people.

41. Hidden Agendas

Magazine Archives Article : Winter 2007

A Harvard test probes the mind in an attempt to learn what's in our hearts. But does it work?

42. Transculturalism, Inc.

Magazine Archives Article : Winter 2007

Jamaican dancehall beats in London. A thriving Tokyo hip-hop scene. Richard Wayner is turning urban-style club culture into a socially conscious—and potentially lucrative—vision of the future.

43. Dean Brelis, 82

Tribe Posting : Lives : 11/22/2006

Foreign correspondent for NBC, CBS and Time magazine; wrote novels and nonfiction books; enlisted in the Army in 1942 and was soon assigned to work in military intelligence for the Office of Strategic Services; began his journalism career writing for the Boston Globe; worked as a correspondent for Time-Life from 1949 to 1954; in 1958 published his first novel, The Mission; two more novels followed: Shalom (1959) and My New-Found Land (1963); in the early 1960s, joined NBC, filing dispatches from the Middle East, North Africa, Cyprus and Vietnam; anchored the KNBC-TV Channel 4 nightly news in Los Angeles in 1967; collaborated with photojournalist Jill Krementz on "The Face of South Vietnam," a nonfiction work that examined the war's impact; next worked for CBS News; in 1974 returned to Time as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

44. The Secretive Seven

Magazine Archives Article : Premier Issue

45. Good Fellas

Magazine Archives Article : Premier Issue

For this block in Quincy House, the success fix is in.

46. Rogers V. Scudder, 93

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/24/2006

A classics teacher who coauthored the popular Jenney series of Latin textbooks; taught at Brooks School in Andover for 30 years; taught classes at Groton for more than three decades and tutored students until last year; in the late 1970s and early '80s, commuted to and from Rome, where he was director of the library at the American Academy; drove ambulances in North Africa and Italy during World War II.

47. Derek Bok, J.D. '54

Tribe Posting : Spotlight : 09/15/2006

Derek Bok is both sequel and prequel to Larry Summers in his position as interim president of Harvard while the search for a permanent replacement is underway. He's in the limelight this week for Harvard's decision to relinquish early admission to the College, a plan pushed by Dean of Admissions William Fitzsimmons and championed by Bok.

48. Rogers Scudder, 93

Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/08/2006

Taught Latin at Groton School in Groton, Mass. from 1968-2005, and at Brooks School in North Andover, Mass. from 1936-66; collaborated on a four-volume series of textbooks, which became the most widely used Latin textbooks in the United States for nearly two decades; director of the library at the American Academy in Rome from 1976-83; served in the British Eighth Army for two years in Syria, North Africa and Italy; ambulance driver in the American Field Service during World War II.

49. Mark Kielburger, A.B. '00

Tribe Posting : Spotlight : 08/29/2006

Who: Chief Executive Director of Free the Children and Co-Founder of Leadership Today.

Quotable: “I was complaining about how I didn’t enjoy reading the newspaper in the morning because it was full of bad news. Desmond [Tutu] looked at me and said he loved reading the paper, he called the bad news ‘God’s Prayer List’. These are all the things we have to fix.”

50. Frank Giese, 89

Tribe Posting : Lives : 08/15/2006

Professor at Portland State University; founder of the Red Rose School, where he also taught social and political science courses; navy lieutenant in North Africa during World War II.