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  • Greenberg, a technology journalist who writes the "Firewall" column for Forbes.com, sat down for a rare two-hour interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Assange, whose leaks of U.S. State Department cables have been making headlines, told Greenberg that his next target is a U.S. bank.

  • Haverford music professors and composers Curt Cacioppo and Ingrid Arauco will both have commissioned works performed as part of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society concert series on December 9. Cacioppo's Philadelphia Diaries evokes five area sites. Arauco's Vistas takes its inspiration from visual art.
  • Haverford College President Steve Emerson writes about helicopter parents in the <em>Washington Post.</em>

  • Andrew Lanham '10 has won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. Lanham, one of 32 winners from a field of 800 candidates, was one of only three U.S. Rhodes winners from a liberal arts college. Lanham described the rigorous application process as“a journey of self discovery.”
  • The former captain of the Men's Cross Country team is Haverford's 20th Rhodes recipient.
  • The Hurford Humanities Center's Dialogues on Art program sends students and faculty on interdisciplinary outings to museums, exhibitions and performances. A group recently traveled to the Storm King Art Center, a 500-acre sculpture park in the Hudson Valley.
  • A team of international scientists working with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile have reported the discovery of 10 new galaxy clusters in a paper published in Astrophysical Journal. Emeritus Professor of Astronomy Bruce Partridge and several of his students contributed to the research.
  • Graduates from the last decade raised more than $250,000 this fall for the College's Annual Fund, by stepping up to a generous challenge made by an anonymous member of the Board of Managers.
  • Named the winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Howard W. Lutnick '83 used his acceptance speech at a gala ceremony for the prestigious award to talk about life lessons learned at Haverford College.
  • With help from students Christine Letts '12 and Cameron Scherer '11, Assistant Professor of Political Science Craig Borowiak has developed a new web resource for the research seminar he teaches on Solidarity Economy Movements.
  • The veteran beer maker launched his Hill Farmstead Brewery in May. Now he's being called "Vermont's most buzzed about microbrewer."

  • A <em>New York Times</em> profile of Farley, the NYC health commissioner, explores his ideas about the health benefits of life-style changes and his belief that promoting behavior change "is the 21st century's equivalent of 19th-century advances in sanitation."

  • The coveted award, given by the Cave Canem Foundation, goes to exceptional first books by African-American poets. Cave Canem faculty member Elizabeth Alexander, who was selected by President Obama to compose a poem for his inauguration, chose Pollock's Spit Back a Boy for the award. The University of Georgia Press will publish the book in spring 2011.
  • The Oxford Blues, Haverford's oldest all-female a cappella group, joined with over 40 alums to celebrate the group's 25th birthday on November 6.
  • In its November 21st program,“The Harmony of Yin-Yang, ” Lyric Fest will premiere a new work by Associate Professor of Music Thomas Lloyd. Lloyd's song,“Fatherly Reflections,” will be performed by prominent tenor Richard Troxell. In an interview, Lloyd, a tenor himself, talks about the genesis of the work and discusses his wide-ranging musical career.

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