New Harvard front-runner
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Harvard's wrecking-ball running back Clifton Dawson set Ivy League records for yards and points in a career, defying comparisons to other tailbacks. But, coach Tim Murphy dropped the names Tom Brady and Peyton Manning when describing Dawson's impact.
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Â· Education blueprint to challenge Lib Dem faithful  Â· New leader makes debut in prime minister's questions
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There's a sophomore at UMass-Boston with a familiar last name and the scoring touch to match it.
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The newly-minted front-runners arrived in New Hampshire early Friday, hoping to take advantage of momentum created by their wins in Thursday night's Iowa caucuses.
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Twenty-one points is a big deficit, but 30 minutes is a lot of time. Harvard faced these circumstances at halftime on Saturday at Brown and prevailed for a 35-34 victory in the Ivy League opener for both teams.
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Founded to train Puritan ministers 370 years ago, Harvard University may soon require all undergraduates to study religion, ethics and U.S. history in the biggest overhaul of its curriculum in three decades.
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How should Harvard spend its money? This is a pretty obvious question that won't be asked enough in the months ahead, now that the world's largest university endowment is looking for another investment chief to succeed the outgoing Mohamed El-Erian.
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Bloomberg - Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Barack Obama inched closer to a presidential run with his first visit to New Hampshire, home of the inaugural primary election in the campaign for the White House.
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Leading candidates in the race for the November  2008 U.S. presidential election are seeking to become the first  woman, first black, first Mormon or oldest first-term president  to occupy the White House.
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Mitt Romney becomes the first of the Republican front-runners officially to declare his White House bid.
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The Democratic presidential hopeful has created a profile on the business social-networking site. Or at least someone on his staff has created one for him.
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First, beat the nation's best cross-country runners. Next, global warming? That's Harvard native Arianna Lambie's idea, anyway. Lambie, who is making her mark on the collegiate running scene, is a senior earth systems major at Stanford, with a primary interest in developing alternative energy sources as a solution to the world's global warming problem.
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Yale's undergraduate student newspaper on Friday chose one alumnus over another in the race for the White House, endorsing John Kerry.
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Attorney Judson Miner called Harvard to offer a job to a graduating student named Barack Obama and didn't expect to be showered with gratitude. Still, he wasn't expecting the reception he got.
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When it comes to hatching new biotechnology ideas, who's number one? It's Harvard. No wait, it's MIT.
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Former presidential candidate Howard Dean, once the early front-runner for the Democratic nomination whose candidacy stumbled, has decided to seek the party's chairmanship.
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There were big changes in the past year at the Harvard University investment arm that manages the largest higher-education endowment in the world. Nothing changed when it came to Harvard's long record of beating the market.