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Öberg to Lead Harvard Faculty Recruitment and Retention
The astrochemist will become senior vice provost for faculty affairs this summer.
Harvard Articulates Principles for “Denaming”
Faust-led committee addresses building and professorship naming decisions “profoundly antithetical” to present values.
The Poet of Old Age
Donald Hall, chronicler of life
by Adam Kirsch
Damage and Repair
Textile artist Celia Pym knits meaning into mended clothes.
From Punk to the Silver Screen
The ingenious, intuitive film scores of Carter Burwell ’77
War, Misremembered
Elizabeth Samet, of West Point, reinterprets the American understanding of World War II.
Border Crossing
Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.
A Democracy of Opportunity
Liberals must learn from conservatives how to interpret the Constitution in all its dimensions.
Notes on Doctoring
Michael Stanley and the covenant of medicine
Celebrating Alumni, Anew
Changes afoot for Harvard’s annual alumni meeting
The Saving Glut of the Rich
High savings rates among the wealthiest U.S. earners may represent a macroeconomic risk