Letters
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Intelligent evolution, military recruiting, Allston architecture
January-February 2006
Features
The Middle Class on the Precipice
During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure...
Samuel Williston
When Samuel Williston, A.B. 1882, LL.B.-A.M. ’88, died at the age of 101, Time magazine took notice, describing his enormous influence on...
Twigs Bent Left or Right
How did Franklin Delano Roosevelt ’04, born in 1882 to a privileged, aristocratic life in New York’s Hudson River Valley, become a...
Life Lessons
With portaits by Mark Ostow In a room where somber faces are the norm, Steve Cappiello is beaming. The tall, muscular 36-year-old points to...
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The Market for News
Imagine that the Labor Department releases new statistics that show the U.S. unemployment rate rising from 6.1 to 6.3 percent. One major...
The Law of Dissimilars
Humans have a natural propensity to distrust the “other.” The classic social-psychology experiment in which individuals are randomly...
Light Blitzes Plaque
Fast forward a decade and imagine what a drugstore shelf might hold. A pill containing an entire day’s nutrients? A gadget that confers...
Rethinking New Orleans
In the immediate wake of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush promised to “do what it takes” to help New Orleans’s residents...
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Wild on the Strip
To see her on the fencing strip is to witness an almost terrifying release of aggression. With lightning speed, a blur of lunges, parries, and...
El-Erian for the Endowment
More than a name and face will change at Harvard Management Company (HMC), the investment organization for the University’s endowment...
Marc Shell
Marc Shell Photograph by Stu Rosner Marc Shell is Babbitt professor of comparative literature, a professor of English, a MacArthur...
An Unconstrained Curriculum
The College curriculum of the future has begun to come into focus, as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this autumn started to discuss...
A Collage of Colleges
“Why should all of the creative and liberating ideas for liberal education be left to the small residential liberal arts colleges?&rdquo...
For Sciences and Art
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is in the throes of a major, multipurpose building boom, as shown in these autumn images. The site of...
Elsewhere
Since 2001, College students’ international experiences during their Harvard years—formal study abroad, research, work or public...
“The Genius of the Balafon”
In West Africa, Neba Solo, born Souleymane Traoré in 1969, is often called “the genius of the balafon,” says Ingrid T...
Allston Planning Explained
A room in the Holyoke Center Arcade has been fitted out to help Harvard planners communicate the University’s aspirations for an Allston...
Ph.D. Policy
When she became dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) last July, it was something of a homecoming for Theda Skocpol, Thomas...
President and Polity
President Lawrence H. Summers e-mailed a multi-thousand-word “letter to the community” on November 7, subsequently published as a...
Yesterday’s News
1911 Because more seniors wish to room in the Yard, the Corporation is likely to furnish the south entry of Thayer Hall with steam heat and...
Growth Spurt, Growing Pains
From 603 full, associate, and assistant professors in 1999, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has grown to 700 as of this January—its...
War, and Women
In November 1945, the International Military Tribunal began its prosecution of Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg, Germany. Nuremberg and...
At Long Last, CGIS
On a warm November evening, more than a decade after a study committee first envisioned it, the completed Center for Government and...
Kennedy School Looks Ahead
“When you think about events like Hurricane Katrina, the earthquake in Pakistan and other parts of South Asia, climate change, global...
Where East Meets West
Although the Harvard-Yenching Institute is housed on Divinity Avenue, at the eastern boundary of the University’s Cambridge campus...
Brevia
Another Nobelist Thomas C. Schelling University of Maryland Joining Mallinckrodt professor of physics Roy J. Glauber ’45, Ph.D...
The (Other) Crew Captain
Knock on the door. Wait. Insert key, turn. Open slightly. “Dorm Crew." No one is home. This is a relief, as always. I locate the...
Paradigm Shift
From the dawn of the twenty-first century until last fall, the football squads of Pennsylvania and Harvard ruled the Ivy League roost. Harvard...
Off the Glass, On the Ice
Basketball With a 71-50 dismembering of New Hampshire, the men (5-0) became only the third Crimson squad in the last 47 years to go undefeated...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
The Beauty of Beans
Viola Canales ’79, J.D. ’89, grew up in a close-knit, highly religious community in the south Texas border town of McAllen, when it...
Alumnae and War
The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, part of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, is creating a record of...
The Oldest Ever?
Walter Seward, LL.B. ’24, turned 109 in October, making him the oldest living—and longest lived—Harvard alumnus known. He was...
Comings and Goings
Harvard clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual gatherings. Following is a list of University-affiliated speakers appearing at local...
Harvard@Home
The University’s on-line learning initiative has released one new segment that offers highlights from the student-run “International...
Alumni Networks
Crimson Compass, a new on-line alumni career network developed by the HAA to replace Professional Connection, is available for free to all...
Olympic Fever
“Harvard in the Olympics,” an alumni college offered by the HAA and the Harvard Varsity Club, features alumni discussing their...
Old-Fashioned Warmth
To walk into the rambling, 1849 Greek Revival farmhouse at Sunday Farm in Middlefield, Massachusetts, is to enter an earlier century. On a cold...
Changing of the Guard
After almost three years of attentive service to alumni in general as Harvard Magazine’s class-notes editor, Lisa Rotondo Hampton...
