NEW YORK - Leading Internet scholars at Harvard Law School will head a task force exploring the safety of users at MySpace and other popular online hangouts amid growing fears that youngsters have become targets of sexual predators.

April 23, 2005

After helping nearly 1,000 families find affordable housing, Mesa native and activist Teresa Brice-Heames is about to live her Ivy League dream.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Saying he has "lived a blessed time," Sen. Edward Kennedy smiled broadly and flashed a thumbs up as he accepted an honorary degree Monday from his alma mater during a rare special convocation at Harvard University.

Ray Leone has resigned his position as head coach of the Arizona State University women’s soccer program to accept the same position at Harvard University, Vice President for University Athletics Lisa Love announced Thursday.

NEW YORK - Rarely has an author succeeded, then failed, so quickly as Kaavya Viswanathan, the Harvard University sophomore who acknowledged lifting material for her debut novel, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life."

Harvard University is the country's oldest, wealthiest and most selective university. Now it's back on top of the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, claiming sole possession of the No. 1 spot for the first time in 12 years.

Harvard admissions officials read every one of the 23,000 application essays they receive each year.

In a most peculiar attack launched by Mitt Romney against President Obama, Romney accused Obama of being at Harvard too long. Apparently, Mitt meant to show that Barack Obama is out of touch with mainstream Americans. But wait! Isn’t Mitt also a Harvard alum?

Local teens: You too can be a Harvard-bound blonde!

The story of Harvard-bound Valley Girl Elle Woods, based on the popular movie starring Reese Witherspoon, is set to music in this Tony-nominated musical staged by the Valley Youth Theatre. Parental guidance is suggested

The Arizona State women's volleyball team opened play Friday afternoon at the Holly Young Invitational in Duham, N.H., with a 25-16, 25-15, 25-7 sweep of the Harvard Crimson.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has called the white policeman who arrested black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. The president says he believes the sergeant to be an outstanding police officer.

BOSTON -- Henry Louis Gates Jr., the nation's pre-eminent black scholar, is accusing Cambridge police of racism after he was arrested while trying to force open the locked front door of his home near Harvard University.

Shortly after becoming Dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan kicked the military out of the school's recruitment office while our troops were putting their lives on the line in two wars overseas. Now that President Obama has nominated Ms. Kagan to the Supreme Court, her actions at Harvard must be closely examined.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Not quite the Oscar, but Scarlett Johansson still was all smiles Thursday about being crowned the Harvard Hasty Pudding woman of the year. And happy to participate in the rambunctious roasting that goes along with the honor.