Letters
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Ethics education, silhouettes, missing football fans, the Sixties, and more
On Public Service
A letter from President Faust
Pay—and Performance?
A letter from the editor: assessing Harvard Management Company
January-February 2015
Features
The Legal Olympian
Cass Sunstein and the modern regulatory state
Keeping Women Safe
Addressing the root causes of violence against women in South Asia
Vita: Edward Everett Hale
Brief life of a science-minded writer and reformer: 1822-1909
The “Wild West” of Academic Publishing
The troubled present and promising future of scholarly communication
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Choosing Confidants
Barbers, bartenders, and beauticians are as privy to our secrets as are family and friends.
Thinking Conceptually
Studying the role of “executive function” in learning, in minds young and old
Company Size Matters
Small companies innovate better, but in the energy field, large firms may lead.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Lighting Up Mount Auburn Street
Another art museum opens—this one, a gallery for African and African-American Art.
Balanced Budget, Benefits Battle
A University financial surplus, but tensions over reductions in employee health benefits
Harvard Portrait: Peter Suber
The open-access proponent works to increase the flow of scholarly information.
Architecture as Liberal Art
Design becomes a hands-on “study of culture itself” in the undergraduate architecture studies track.
Yesterday’s News
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Sustainability Steps
As debates continue over divestment, Harvard events highlight progress on campus sustainability and climate research.
The Campaign Computes
Funding medical research and education, Steve Ballmer boosts computer-science expansion, and arts and teacher-training initiatives
And Having Written...
A senior magazine colleague moves on, and new members of the editorial staff
Honor Roll
Writers and artists who made special contributions to the magazine in 2014
Taking Attendance
An experiment in monitoring students’ engagements with lectures runs afoul of faculty concerns about the sanctity of classrooms.
Brevia
Departing government and engineering deans, Rhodes and Marshall Scholars, Crimson-Eli computer-science course, and more
An Undergraduate Life in the Theater
An insider’s take on a major extracurricular interest
Just Perfect
A thrilling end to The Game caps a championship season.
Escape Artist
Wrestler Todd Preston wins—from the bottom up.
Hoop Hopes
Will Harvard men’s basketball live up to its pre-season billing?
Read All About It
Harvard sports stalwarts from 1963 to 2012 are celebrated in The Third H Book of Harvard Athletics
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Wood into Art
Anthony Giachetti’s furniture is both functional and timeless.
Open Book: Rough Road for Capitalism
A critique of the neoliberal economy
Divertimentos and Democracy
A Far Cry plays con spirito—and without a baton.
A Love Affair with Haiti
Amy Wilentz on her “touchstone and central obsession”
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Let the Sonnets Be Unbroken
Neil Rudenstine guides readers through Shakespeare’s lyric masterpiece.
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Preserving Heirs and Airs
Boston’s history glimpsed through one eccentric’s home
Circus Art
RISD museum celebrates the circus.
Sweet and Spicy
Moroccan Hospitality lives up to its name.
A Delicate Power
Dancer Shantala Shivalingappa embodies Hindu gods at Boston’s ICA.
A World of Food
The Cambridge Winter Farmers’ Market opens for a fourth season.
Images That Speak
The Griffin Museum of Photography’s winter exhibits
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Talent Behind the Wheel
A Harvard summa aims for NASCAR.
(Club) House Renew
The Harvard Club of Boston undergoes renovations.
A Poet’s Return
For Joan Naviyuk Kane ’00, an abandoned island is a potent creative source.
Crimson on Capitol Hill: 114th [Updated]
Harvard’s GOP contingent expands in the new Congress.
LSD Testing in the 1950s
A researcher hopes to contact volunteer participants in “truth sera” experiments.
The SIGnboard: SIG Snapshot
Harvard Latin American Alumni and Friends
The Classes
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