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Tiger Mother's Daughter Accepted at Harvard

It looks like the iron-fisted tiger mother's hard work paid off: Her 18-year-old daughter has been accepted at Harvard. Amy Chua, a Chinese-American mother and Yale professor, sparked controversy earlier this year with her memoir, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," in which she recounts her philosophy of ultra-strict...

The Ultimate Roommate Calculator: How a Math Geek Splits the Rent

Living with roommates raises plenty of questions. Who left the dishes in the sink? Where's your share of the cable bill? What happened to my leftover pizza? Thankfully, a graduate student at Harvard University has used math to help roommates find an easy answer to the most difficult of domestic questions. Jonathan...

Harvard, Navy to Sign Agreement on ROTC Return

BOSTON - The Reserve Officer Training Corps' four-decade exile from Harvard University campus ends Friday with an agreement that was spurred by a congressional vote allowing gays to serve openly in the military. Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus are scheduled to sign an agreement Friday that...

Meet Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg's No-Nonsense Girlfriend

Mark Zuckerberg is dealing with some privacy concerns of his own. TMZ says Zuckerberg has obtained a restraining order against 31-year-old Pradeep Manukonda, who reportedly followed the Facebook founder and attempted to contact him in person and online, sending disturbing messages through (what else?) Facebook. The...

'Pants' Up, 'Trousers' Down on Google's Ngram Viewer

(Dec. 17) -- Never one to be caught resting on its laurels, Google has released a massive, searchable database that will give linguists and historians a new tool for quantitatively understanding how language and culture have changed over time. It also makes for a good time-waster on languishing Fridays before the...

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Harvard University is an American private Ivy League research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature.

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