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By adamg - 3/10/24 - 1:13 am
Ajak and Keech

Ajak (l) and Keech discuss overthrowing the South Sudanese government with arms dealers who were really federal agents. From federal affidavit.

A native of South Sudan who allegedly had dreams of moving from Harvard's Kennedy School to the presidency of his homeland was arrested on Monday on charges he and an accomplice were planning to export enough anti-tank missiles, grenade launchers, automatic rifles and ammunition to take over the beleaguered nation. Read more.

By adamg - 3/7/24 - 6:14 pm

The Crimson reports German professor Eric Rentschler did something so horrible - exactly what, the U isn't yet saying - that he not only can't teach for two years, he's not even allowed to show his face on campus.

By adamg - 1/24/24 - 11:53 pm

The Crimson reports Harvard and Cambridge police responded to a law-school building after getting a report of a bomb there around 5:30 p.m. on Sunday. There was no bomb there.

By adamg - 1/10/24 - 11:49 pm

A group of Jewish students have sued Harvard University, alleging discrimination from top to bottom against Jews. Read more.

By adamg - 1/10/24 - 10:35 pm
Giordani carrying explosives and wires onto Havard Science Center plaza

Webcam captured Giordani carrying explosives and wires onto Havard Science Center plaza.

A New Hampshire man who said he was answering a Craigslist ad to deliver items to a man's son at Harvard University pleaded guilty today to a federal charge that he knew he was involved in something illegal but failed to alert authorities. Read more.

By adamg - 1/2/24 - 1:08 pm

The Crimson reports.

Gay's resignation letter to the Harvard community: Read more.

By adamg - 12/7/23 - 1:30 pm
Plane banner reading: Harvard hates Jews

Just in: This photo of the banner being pulled by a small plane flying over downtown and Boston Common, neither of which is home to Harvard. However, the pilot did eventually get his bearings and headed over to the Harvard athletic fields in Allston.

The flight coincides with news that Republicans in the House plan to investigate anti-Semitism specifically at Harvard.

By adamg - 11/29/23 - 9:45 pm

Henry Kissinger, who earned BA, MA and PhD degrees at Harvard then stayed on as professor of government and international affairs before leaving for a job in the Nixon administration, where he helped overthrow a democratically elected government in one country and oversaw B-52 carpet bombing in another, died today.

By adamg - 10/25/23 - 4:12 pm

Harvard University today sued its insurance broker, which it says is to blame for the failure to notify one of its legal insurers in time to get reimbursed for all the legal help it needed in a nine-year, ultimately unsuccessful, effort to fend off a lawsuit - and still ongoing federal investigation - involving its affirmative-action policies for student admissions. Read more.

By adamg - 10/19/23 - 8:59 am
Orange sunrise over Harvard Stadium

Ari Ofsevit caught the sunrise over Harvard Stadium this morning.

In West Roxbury, Mary Ellen watched the dawn break over the old West Roxbury High School: Read more.

By Sasha Patkin - 9/11/23 - 10:13 pm
Little Amal surrounded by lanterns on Harvard campus

Little Amal surrounded by lanterns on Harvard campus. Photo by Sasha Patkin.

Why do people throw their energy into art when there are so many real and terrible things happening in the world that also deserve attention? This was one of the many questions which flitted across my mind as I sat on a bench in Harvard's Science Center Plaza Thursday night. Read more.

By adamg - 9/6/23 - 9:00 am

Harvard's officially inaugurating its new president in a couple of weeks, and so, the Crimson reports: Harvard to Pause Visits From Heads of State Ahead of President Gay’s Inauguration.

By adamg - 8/9/23 - 10:43 pm

For the second time in nine months, a federal court has ruled that Harvard is out the $15 million it sought from a legal insurer because it missed the deadline for notifying the company it would invoke the policy for excess bills related to its decade-long, and ultimately unsuccessful, court battle against a group that didn't like its affirmative-action policies. Read more.

By adamg - 7/24/23 - 10:20 pm

Local civil-rights groups said tonight that the federal Department of Education has agreed to investigate their claim that Harvard's continued preference for "legacy" admissions of primarily white applicants violates the rights of Hispanic and Black applicants whose parents or other relatives didn't go to the school or donate large amounts of money to it. Read more.

By adamg - 6/29/23 - 5:27 pm

The families of three Massachusetts residents who willed their bodies to Harvard Medical School yesterday sued Harvard over what might have happened to those bodies under the care of a school mortuary director now facing federal charges of selling off various body parts to a ring of creepy collectors. Read more.

By adamg - 6/29/23 - 10:17 am

The Harvard Crimson reports on today's ruling, which focused in part on admissions at Harvard.

By adamg - 6/23/23 - 10:51 am

The Harvard Art Museums announced today they've ended admission fees for the general public, even if they don't live in Cambridge (Cantabrigians already had free access). Read more.

By adamg - 6/21/23 - 12:08 pm

The Crimson reports Tishman Speyer is set to break ground this week on the Harvard Enterprise Research Campus off Western Avenue after the company landed a $750-million financing package, which it claims is the largest such deal in the US this year. Harvard currently owns about a third of Allston, with much of its newest holdings secretly acquired in the late 1980s.

By adamg - 6/15/23 - 10:18 am

In addition to the newly revealed unpleasantries at Harvard Medical School, Harvard's Houghton Library has a 19th-century French book bound in human skin - Des destinées de l'ame (Destinies of the Soul). Read more.

By adamg - 5/2/23 - 5:00 pm
Giordani about to deliver package

FBI says image shows Giordani about to deliver package that shut part of Harvard last month.

A man who claims he was only answering a Craigslist ad from somebody seeking to arrange delivery of a package to his son at Harvard was arrested today on federal charges of aiding and abetting an extortion attempt and conspiracy for an incident that shut down part of the Harvard campus last month after police discovered a bag containing a box full of Roman candles, bottle rockets and wires, following a series of threatening extortion phone calls that day. Read more.

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