http://www.yourstreet.com/news/harvard YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Collier Winters threw for 211 yards and two touchdowns Saturday as Harvard came back from a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat rival Yale 14-10, the Crimson's eighth win in nine years against the Bulldogs. Yale led 10-7 with just 2:25... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6753756/harvard-vs-yale-harvard-comes-back-to-defeat-yale,-14-10 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:55:08 -0800 Mary Cheh is a smart lady. She's got tenure at George Washington University Law School and has a master's degree from Fair Harvard. That said, it was slightly mystifying to read the following, located about halfway through an interview Cheh gave to the Washington... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751784/ladies-and-gentlemen,-your-ward-3-councilmember Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:25:08 -0700 Bill George, a Harvard business professor, responds to the numerous comments from readers after his provocative piece, "Let's Stop Vilifying the Bankers," appeared on DealBook. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6752116/another-view-the-debate-over-vilifying-bankers Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:56:08 -0700 The Harvard community is mourning a long-time professor of public health at the university who was killed in a fiery head-on crash in New Hampshire Monday along with his wife and mother. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6749181/harvard-mourns-prof-killed-in-fiery-crash Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:36:08 -0700 One person was injured after a crane's hook damaged a car in a crash at 61st and Harvard Monday morning. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6745770/tulsa-crash-with-a-crane-s-hook-injures-driver Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:09:08 -0700 A team of Harvard researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute recently made a significant step in creating clinically-safe, induced pluripotent stem cells, an advance that could be “revolutionary” in treating patients with neuromuscular diseases like... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6742922/hsci-nears-stem-cell-creation-goal Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:17:08 -0700 After a period of strategic growth, two of Harvard’s smallest graduate schools are not planning to conduct faculty searches this academic year. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6742923/faculty-hiring-stable Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:12:08 -0700 On Nov. 3, “Twilight” fans can sink their teeth into the newest installment in the vampire saga, penned not by Stephenie Meyer but by a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, The Harvard... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6742924/lampoon-publishes-twilight-parody Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:11:08 -0700 Almost $4,500 worth of valuables was stolen from the women’s soccer and softball locker rooms last Tuesday—the most recent incident in an unusual string of burglaries that has hit four different Harvard athletic teams in the past month. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6742925/locker-room-thefts-continue Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:07:08 -0700 The Harvard-Yenching Library—the largest university library for East Asian research in the Western World—signed an agreement on Friday with the National Library of China to digitize Harvard’s entire 51,500-volume Chinese rare book collection over the next six... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6742927/hcl,-china-form-pact Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:03:08 -0700 Day care is the next frontier: New Harvard research shows few states require that child-care providers take specific nutrition and physical activity steps... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6744767/day-care-next-frontier-in-fighting-kids-obesity Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:27:08 -0700 Photos from: Zombie Walk in Salem World War II airfield battle reenactment in Stow Oktoberfest in Harvard Square ( more http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6742821/brains,-planes-and-beer Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:42:08 -0700 We did a wee bit of slacking with regard to getting the book events out this month, but it's cool—there are still a ton of amazing events going on. And keep an eye out for more coverage of the Boston Book Festival coming up on October 24. Monday, October 12... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6749280/book-it-october-book-events Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:00:08 -0700 Image of last year's Harvard Square Oktoberfest by AntyDiluvian It's a quiet, sunny day in the Hub today. Good news if you wanted to spend your afternoon watching the Sox and Pats. Luckily or the rest of you, there are a couple of things worth doing. Festivals... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6749284/sunday-happenings Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:57:08 -0700 Harvard is, apparently, the best university in the world , despite lack of cookies . The school has plenty of kooks, though, or at the very least a very major one: conservative columnist Peggy Noonan, who has parlayed her avoidance of poor people into heading a study... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6749285/harvard,-best-university-ever,-hires-craziest-kook-ever- Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:00:08 -0700 Photo by say71 For whatever reason, this week's overheards were primarily sexual in nature. Maybe we've gone too long without a Congressional sex scandal, so locals folks have felt the need to make up their own? These cops seem to know what's up. Overheard of the... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6742166/overheard-in-d-c-dirty-edition Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:27:08 -0700 Apparently 8 billion didn't do it, but a bit more did. The New York Times reports that Harvard is cutting cookies out of the budget for faculty meetings, leaving Skip and co to fret for lack of chocolate chips, raisins, and maybe even peanut butter. Hot breakfasts,... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6749293/no-cookie-for-you-harvard-cuts-cookie-costs Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:00:08 -0700 Image from Wikimedia Commons The Social Network may be the worst movie title since My Best Friend's Girl desecrated the Cars' legacy, but that didn't stop Justin Timberlake from signing up for it. This means JT not-T will "likely" be at Somerville's Thirsty Scholar... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6749297/justin-timberlake-to-be-a-thirsty-scholar-facebook-getting-sued-again- Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:00:08 -0700 Trapped in the Wang We wish that we could tell you that tonight's R Kelly show was going to be a Trapped in the Closet stage play, but, alas, we think he's just going to sing. At least that will save at least one little person the indignity of crawling out of a... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6749299/friday-happenings Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:43:08 -0700 The delayed flights at Logan stink, but it's not as bad as New York's airports. [ Boston Globe ] In a reversal of a recent trend, an octagenerian is struck by a car in Salem. [ Boston Channel ] Harvard Square's rogue booksellers stick another thorn in City's side by... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6749300/bite-size-news,-october-8-planes,-autos,-book-carts-edition Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:00:08 -0700