Harvard in the World

Welcome to your House! Now that your homes have been determined, you have to set about the task of convincing others (and possibly yourself) that your House is in fact the best. What better way to persuade someone of your House's superiority then to spew a list of famous alumni molded by your House? Here are some of the coolest alumni that we could find from each house. Let the historic notables duke it out for you.

The writers for the upcoming film on the founding of Facebook may be regretting starting the script too early—juicy scandals and charged accusations surrounding the social networking Web site just keeps surfacing. A week after Facebook experienced privacy issues, Facebook founder and CEO Mark E. Zuckerberg '06 was accused of hacking into student e-mail and social network ConnectU accounts before dropping out of Harvard in 2004.

More than 50 students and community members packed themselves into b.good yesterday morning to run with their favorite food-inspired superhero, "Burgerman," a.k.a. Samuel B. Novey '11. This week, they were joined by Massachusetts State Auditor candidate Mike Lake and the Harvard LowKeys, who sang a burger-fied rendition of "Alone" by Heart. Yesterday's run seemed to focus on one important concept that has driven Novey and his challenge: passion. For running, education, and of course, burgers.

For Harvard Business School graduate John F. Crowley, the importance of biotechnology innovation was personal.

While Washington, D.C.'s legalization of same-sex marriage is a significant step in the fight for marriage equality nationwide, some members of the Harvard community have questioned D.C.’s ruling in light of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

The H-bomb is strong, at least according to PayScale, a global online compensation data company. It turns out that Harvard graduates can boast the second-highest mid-career median salary, tied with MIT for $126,000. Only kids from Dartmouth make more mid-career bank.

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake—one of the highest ever recorded—struck central Chile on Saturday, killing over 700 people, destroying homes, and leaving members of the Harvard community deeply anxious about the status of students studying abroad and loved ones residing in the country.

President Barack Obama has appointed two Harvard alumni as members of the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform to devise ways to balance the federal budget.

You tweet. I tweet. Now Conan O’Brien also tweets. “Today I connected all the freckles on my arm with a Sharpie," he wrote. "It spells out RIKSHAZ9LIRK. Clearly I am The Chosen One.”

Harvard Kennedy School student Bob Overbeek announced last week that he plans to pursue the Republican nomination for Michigan’s third congressional district election in November.