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...10th century. The poet Lord Byron called it "the Pearl of the Adriatic" in the early 19th century. In the 1930s the British King Edward and Wallis Simpson sunbathed naked on a nearby island. (The current crop of celebrities drawn to the city includes Steven Spielberg, Sharon Stone and John Malkovich...
...study abroad initiatives. He has played an important role in the hiring of some of Harvard’s newest and brightest faculty, including Tisch Professor of History Niall Ferguson, Professor of Systems Biology Eric Lander, Bass Professor of English Louis Menand, and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker. And for those who argue that the president has made himself unapproachable and inaccessible, one glance at his accomplishments shows that he has made himself and the University more accessible than has perhaps any Harvard president since the implementation of the G.I. Bill. Summers has added office hours, started evening...
What Summers said at the conference of the National Bureau of Economic Research caused a firestorm, and he has said repeatedly that his words were not well chosen. The Crimson some weeks ago included statements from prominent psychologists on the topic of gender. Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker suggested that there was adequate evidence to take seriously the hypothesis that men’s and women’s distributions of quantitative and spatial abilities may not be identical. Berkman Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Spelke was far more critical, arguing that gender differences are negligible, that it therefore...
Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker said that Summers’ interpretation is a valid claim...
...student in the Wendell Street incident “was approached by two suspects who demanded his money,” said Steven G. Catalano, spokesman for Harvard University Police Department (HUPD). “The victim handed over the wallet, the suspects then took the money out of the wallet and fled...