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"If you don't move forward-you begin to move backward"
In a speech at Harvard on December 4, Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991, urged today’s world leaders to place nuclear disarmament...
An Evening With the Editor
Magazine donors gathered at Loeb House in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Yesterday's News
1912 The Associated Harvard Clubs have established scholarships for freshmen from southern and western states to ensure greater diversity within...
An Unexpected Risk Factor
One risk to continued strong endowment performance not addressed in Mohamed A. El-Erian’s annual letter was the uncertainty arising from...
Nixing the News
If those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it—as philosopher George Santayana, A.B. 1886, once wrote—and if news...
Brief life of ornithologist and writer William Brewster, by Alan Emmet
William Brewster was too frail, his eyesight too poor, said his parents and doctors, for him to attend Harvard. Instead, early each morning, he...
Growing Green
In an unprecedented move that raised the bar for environmental standards, University leaders in September agreed to cut the greenhouse gases...
The Socially Acceptable Bohemian
Tickets are a stiff $40 apiece, but the Sit ’n’ Bull Pub in Maynard, Massachusetts, is full. Folksinger Tom Rush ’63 stands...
Directing Development
Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74 has been appointed the University’s vice president for alumni affairs and development, President Drew...
Counting the War Dead
How lethal are modern methods of warfare? Political scientists affiliated with the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO)—the...
Off the Shelf
I’ll Drink to That: Beaujolais and the French Peasant Who Made It the World’s Most Popular Wine, by Rudolph Chelminski ’56...
Methanol, Cheeseburgers, Metals
Interdisciplinary science supported by the Microbial Sciences Initiative