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March-April 2007
Features
“Insider Luck”
The compensation of top American corporate executives has soared during the past 15 years. Measured in 2005 dollars, the average annual...
Edward Gorey
Although he died almost seven years ago, Edward Gorey ’50 has just brought out a new book. Amphigorey Again, the fourth anthology of...
Reviewing "Reality"
The scene, at least the one framed by the family-room proscenium of the television screen, remains indelible. President George W. Bush emerged...
A President with a Purpose
As 2007 began, and several aspirants prepared to announce their candidacies for our nation’s highest office, Americans paused to celebrate...
The SARS Scare
The SARS coronavirus epidemic provides lessons in how to combat zoonoses such as Ebola, swine, and avian flu.
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
A Personal Genome Machine?
In a laboratory behind the Science Center, researchers are working on a high-stakes project at the nexus of physics and biology. If all goes...
"The Gates of Paradise"
The main baptistery doors of the Duomo in Florence, created by Lorenzo Ghiberti between 1425 and 1452, are among the masterpieces that ushered...
Laugh for Your Lungs' Sake
Stress headaches, stress fractures, and stress-induced heart attacks already register with the general public. Now new research suggests that...
The Lucky Effect
Pretend that you’re five years old. A grownup in a white coat tells you about Jane, who found $5 on the sidewalk; Johnny, who was splashed...
John Harvard's Journal University news
Harvard’s 50-Year Plan
Ten million square feet of new buildings, as many as 12,000 new jobs, and many billions of dollars: the numbers alone suggest the scope of...
"Crossing Boundaries"
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust, founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will become Harvard’s twenty-eighth president on...
New Museum on Fast Track
Harvard planners announced in December that a new, permanent art museum would rise at 224 Western Avenue, a prime site in the University’s...
Toward Top-Tier Teaching
A task force on teaching proposed in late January that members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) enter into a “compact” to...
The Presidency, Pending
Feverish speculation notwithstanding, the Corporation did not use its regularly scheduled meeting with the Board of Overseers during the first...
N. Gregory Mankiw
Photograph by Stu Rosner N. Gregory Mankiw After two years as chair of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), Beren...
For Science and Engineering, New Life
In January, the Harvard Corporation authorized the establishment of the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC), allocating...
Student Financial Assistance: FY 2005
Financial support for degree-candidate students amounts to a half-billion-dollar-plus commitment by the University. These data, from fiscal year...
Imagine That!
A woman repairing an automobileand showing us the tops of her stockings! This is not a “True Woman,” domestic, docile...
Money Matters
An updated, second edition of Managing Harvard’s Resourceswith reports from the University’s treasurer, James F. Rothenberg...
General Education, Finally Defined
Following extensive consultation with colleagues throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the Task Force on General Education has...
Brevia
An Eye on Immigration Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Art Museums © President and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard...
Yesterday's News
1922 Heywood Broun ’10, in a column reprinted in the Bulletin, rues the fact that Harvard is no longer the literary center it once was...
Portfolio-Manager Paychecks
The compensation for the most highly paid endowment investment managersthe subject of criticism and debate in recent yearstook on a...
The Rub on the Pub
Undergraduates will soon be able to relax in a new campus pub, scheduled to open early in April. The gathering spot is part of a $4.5-million...
University People
Security Secretary Juliette N. Kayyem Kennedy School of Government lecturer in public policy Juliette N. Kayyem...
The War at Home
Almost every week last year I received an e-mail with the subject line “Iraq Update.” With each message, the number following that...
Scholars Galore
What a difference a year makes! In 2005, Harvard affiliates earned one Marshall Scholarship and two Rhodes Scholarships. In 2006, those numbers...
Last and Best
In sports, as in life, a momentary twist of fate can change everything that follows. So it is with wrestler Olabode “Bode&rdquo...
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Avant-Garde Incubator
The blip festival may be unfamiliar to you, but for lovers of “low-bit music,” it’s the world’s premier event. Late last...
Godmothers of The Namesake
Mira Nair ’79 met Sooni Taraporevala ’79 in the Lowell House dining room in the fall of 1976. The two women, both of Indian descent...
He Was on to Something
Educator James O. Freedman ’57, L ’60, who died in March of last year, was president emeritus of Dartmouth College and of the...
"The Monet of the Mountaintop"
Peter C. Liman, M.A.T. ’63, spent his business career as a marketing executive in toiletries and over-the-counter...
Talented Eccentrics
Within living memory, computer programming was handicraft. Individual programmers strained to create works that were both useful and...
Off the Shelf
Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853, by George Feifer ’56 (Smithsonian Books, $25.95)...
Judy Budnitz: Flying Leaps
In Nice Big American Baby, the newest collection of short stories by Judy Budnitz ’95, the author considers mothers and babies—and...
Chapter & Verse
Wayles Brown asks whether anyone can provide an exact source and the precise wording for a comment often attributed to Oscar Wilde: “The...
"Theater without All the Drama"
“These shows are funny no matter your age or upbringing,” says Casey Lurtz ’07, who has just finished her term as president of...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
A True Believer
But first, a word about the Florida scrub jay. “Before the invention of the air conditioner, Florida was a spectacular wilderness,&rdquo...
The Music of Birds... and Whales
In 2000, David Rothenberg ’84 arrived at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh at dawn, unpacked his instrumentsclarinets and...
News from the HAA
Candidates for Election This spring, five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board...
