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...both of these controversies. The PCC is investigating the complaints against Moir's column, but the incident is likely to end with a slap on the wrist. Even as the outrage over her column continues, there's a growing backlash against her leading critics. Comedic actor, writer and Twitter pioneer Stephen Fry has come in for the most censure. Columnist Brendan O'Neill wrote that Fry had used Twitter as a "virtual lynch mob" that had set press and speech freedoms back...
Bruce J. Wasserstein—a graduate of the Harvard Business and Law Schools who led financial advisory and asset management firm Lazard and gained fame as a pioneer of hostile takeovers in business—died Wednesday in New York City...
...that there are few other immediately obvious alternative hypotheses, given the cluster of outcomes among babies born at certain times. "Why is it that only those born in 1919 showed the spike [in heart disease]?" asks study author Douglas Almond, a professor of economics at Columbia University and a pioneer in applying the fetal-origins theory to economics. "People who were born just before and after the flu should be affected as well." (Read "How to Deal with Swine Flu: Heeding the Mistakes...
Harvard’s own wind ensemble, though popular, was no stranger to innovation. It was hosted by the late composer Henry Brant, a pioneer in ideas of spatialization in music; for Brant, the rhythms and melodies of music were not enough to capture the “new stresses, layered insanities, and multi-directional assaults of contemporary life on the spirit.” In addition to traditional orchestration, he arranged the members of the ensemble in such a way as to provide a richer experience for the listener. Indeed, Lowell Lecture Hall was reportedly one of Brant?...
...distributed $348 million in three categories: the New Innovator Award, the Pioneer Award, and a new program, the Director’s Transformative Award. Last year, the institute awarded $138 million in New Innovator and Pioneer awards. This year, an additional $210 million dollars was made available in grants, including $23 million that was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—or the stimulus bill...