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  Michael Mina holds up a rapid test during a Zoom call with journalists
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  Rapid Tests, in Time for Fall Surge
  
  Rapid COVID-19 tests, of the kind that Michael Mina has been advocating since last year, are finally approved for home use.
  
  4.8.21
  
  Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
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  Harvard College Announces Class of 2025 Admissions Decisions
  
  Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
  
  4.6.21
  
  William "Bill" Kristol.
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  The Fight for the Republic
  
  Bill Kristol discusses the future of the Republican Party and the survival of American constitutional democracy.
  
  4.1.21
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  A professor and a marketing professional have teamed up to raise awareness of the climate problem through the nonpartisan, nonprofit Potential Energy Coalition.
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  Making Voters Care About Climate Change
  
  A professor and a marketing professional try a new tack in climate-change communications.
  
  3.24.21
  
  Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
  Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library Archives
  
  Bringing the Stars to Light
  
  Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
  
  3.23.21
  
  Harvard Law School students Anna Vande Velde and William Roberts
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  Alternatives to Policing
  
  A Law School report offers the City of Boston recommendations for reform.
  
  3.18.21
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  Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
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  Harvard College Announces Class of 2025 Admissions Decisions
  
  Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
  
  4.6.21
  
  Cabot House members cheered up the wintry Quad with their hand-crafted ice lanterns.
  Photograph courtesy of Cabot House faculty dean Ian Miller and resident dean Meg Lockwood.
  
  Repositioning Harvard House Life
  
  Undergraduate Houses experiment and innovate in attempts to revive the effervescence that once characterized their student communities.
  
  3.26.21
  
  March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
  Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
  
  Blockmate Backstories
  
  The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
  
  3.8.21
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  Loeb House, where the governing boards convene
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  Balloting Begins
  
  The annual election of Overseers and alumni association directors is under way.
  
  4.1.21
  
  Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
  Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library Archives
  
  Bringing the Stars to Light
  
  Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
  
  3.23.21
  
  Noah Evers ’22 and his grandmother Patricia Greenfield ’62, Ph.D. ’66
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  Baking Sourdough Bread Is a Survival Instinct
  
  A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
  
  2.22.21
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  The (Truly) Great Outdoors
  
  Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
  
  March-April 2021
  
  A still from The Painter and the Thief
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  Missed Some of 2020’s Best Films?
  
  A short list of fine
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  2.10.21
  
  Shen Wei in his New York studio, 2014
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  Painterly Dances, Danceable Paintings
  
  “Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
  
  March-April 2021
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  March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
  Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
  
  Blockmate Backstories
  
  The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
  
  3.8.21
  
  A Tale of Two Universities
  
  What Ivy institutions’ diverging paths reveal
  
  March-April 2021
  
  Lawrence S. Bacow
  
  Resolve
  
  President Bacow on speech on campus
  
  March-April 2021
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  Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
  Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library Archives
  
  Bringing the Stars to Light
  
  Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
  
  3.23.21
  
  A still from The Painter and the Thief
  From the film
  
  Missed Some of 2020’s Best Films?
  
  A short list of fine
  documentaries and feature films
  
  2.10.21
  
  Illustration by Alex Williamson.
  
  Culture in the Cold War
  
  In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
  
  March-April 2021
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  Ivy League Cancels Spring Competition
  
  A fourth consecutive season is shuttered.
  
  2.18.21
  
  David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
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  The 1,200 Loop
  
  A legendary route’s disputed distance
  
  March-April 2021
  
  An adept passer and gritty defender, Zeng also finished fifth in the Ivy League in service aces.
  Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
  
  Laying Out
  
  Volleyball captain Sandra Zeng’s defensive focus
  
  January-February 2021
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  David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
  Photograph by Molly Malone
  
  The 1,200 Loop
  
  A legendary route’s disputed distance
  
  March-April 2021
  
  Photograph courtesy of the Brookline Preservation Commission
  
  Dues to the Past
  
  Classy masks, dapper archaeologist, saving H.H. Richardson’s house
  
  March-April 2021
  
  Solomon Gate in its typical open position
  
  A Gate of Whimsy
  
  At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
  
  March-April 2021
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  Carrie Lambert-Beatty: What Happens When an Artwork Deceives Its Audience?
  
  11.30.20
  
  Francesca Dominici: How Does Air Pollution Affect COVID-19?
  
  11.23.20
  
  Rebecca Henderson: Does Capitalism Need to be Reimagined?
  
  11.16.20
  
  Jeannie Suk Gersen: Do Elite Colleges Discriminate Against Asian Americans?
  
  11.9.20
  
  Danielle Allen: What Do COVID-19 and Extreme Inequality Mean for American Democracy?
  
  11.2.20
  
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  10.26.20
  
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