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...French class at Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School in Cambridge. Those in attendance gathered for a moment of silence before starting the walk to remember all those who have died or are suffering in Haiti. According to Bob Doolittle, the youth director at St. Paul and one of the event??s coordinators, the walk raised $40,000, significantly more than the goal of $25,000. He said that this year was the second-most successful showing since the walk’s founding in 2003. “With the economic downturn people were going to hold back...
During a symposium last night in Harvard Hall, four scholars from prominent universities presented research that stretches the limits of traditional economics with modern scientific advances. The two-hour event??entitled “A Symposium on Economic Decision Making”—focused on the nascent field of neuroeconomics, a combination of neuroscience, psychology, and economics that challenges classical assumptions of economic theory. “Economics is actually an abstract, profoundly wrong model of human behavior,” said Drazen Prelec ’78, a professor of management science at MIT, later...
...Naples-Mitchell ’10, a member of the Harvard Darfur Action Group, said she believed Farrow’s proposed measures would produce positive change in Darfur. “An envoy to Sudan should be our number one priority” Naples-Mitchell said. The event??which took place at the IOP’s John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum—was co-sponsored by the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, the Harvard Human Rights Advocates, and the Harvard Darfur Action Group...
...entertainment, according to its Web site. She is best known for her role as Ashley Banks on the popular 1990s sitcom, “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” A few students have secured internships and full-time jobs through previous conferences, according to the event??s organizers, who pointed to Christina S. Wells ’08 as one such example. Attending this year’s conference to support her current employer, Wells said that she would advise students to seek more creative careers outside of the typical investment-banking and finance...
...Boston and Cambridge, primarily at the Brattle Theatre. The films remind viewers of the many trials suffered by women around the world—from the kidnapping and murder of young women by the Nepalese national army to the controversies concerning women’s headscarves in Dubai. The event??presented by Hostelling International USA in conjunction with Women in Film & Video/New England and The United Nations Association of Greater Boston—kicked off its second year with a screening of the new documentary “Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority?...