Fair Harvard has taken sole possession of the spot atop the U.S. News and World Report’s 2011 rankings of national universities.

Harvard’s equity holdings were reduced 18.8 percent this past quarter amid a 10.6-percent fall in the Dow Jones Industrial Average during the same period and increased exposure to emerging markets.

Mike Way, the squash trainer who coached Canadian Jonathon Power to the top of the men’s world rankings, will now lead the Harvard men’s and women’s squash teams as head coach, Way said in a phone interview today.

With the goal of empowering library patrons to create “the information society of the future,” the University Library Council recently approved a new set of financial and infrastructural resources dubbed the Harvard Library Lab to support entrepreneurial projects that improve library functions.

A trip to the reopening of the restaurant that inspired the Soup Nazi revealed quality soup and surprisingly common service.

Harvard Kennedy School has revoked the degree it awarded Russian spy Andrey Bezrukov, who lived in Cambridge and attended school under the name of Donald H. Heathfield.

A man who allegedly groped a 16-year-old girl on a Red Line train at the Kendall T station surrendered to MBTA Police on Friday.

Police are on the lookout for the perpetrators of three separate assaults against women—two of whom were minors—in public spaces throughout Cambridge earlier this week.

Despite widespread speculation concerning the role of race in the July 2009 arrest of Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., members of the Cambridge Review Committee insist that racial bias deserved no more attention than brief mentions in the final report analyzing the arrest, arguing that the issue overshadowed more meaningful concerns precipitating from the incident.

If a spy seeks to blend in with his surroundings, then the alleged Russian agent known as Donald H. Heathfield succeeded during his time at Harvard Kennedy School.