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The World’s Costliest Health Care
L ONG BEFORE the presidential primaries, or a paralyzing pandemic, Harvard Magazine asked several faculty experts to write about issues that would be shaped by the national elections, that mattered to the future of the country—and that would probably …
Issue: May-June 2020
Honoring a Life with Birds
Growing up in Cambridge and wandering the wilds of Fresh Pond in the late 1800s, William Brewster scanned the trees and shoreline for signs of fluttering wings, listening for even the faintest peeps, tweets, and coos of avifauna. “It’s a phenomenon among …
Issue: July-August 2022
Listen Up
On a clear day last March movers hoisted the Steinway & Sons concert grand piano out of a second-story window at Groton’s Kalliroscope Gallery and swung it high into the air. The nine-foot-long, 1,000-pound instrument, wrapped and roped for the ride, …
Issue: September-October 2022
Better-than-Balanced Books
Faster revenue growth , plus expenses rising at almost the same rate, yielded an operating surplus of $43.6 million for Harvard’s fiscal year ended June 30, up slightly from the $36.8 million surplus reported for 2004. In reviewing the latter results a …
Issue: November-December 2005
New Leader, New Look
The Harvard Club of Boston, established in 1908, has elected its first female president. Belmont resident Karen Van Winkle ’80, vice president of business development and marketing for Creative Office Pavilion, has been among those who helped launch and …
Issue: September-October 2016
Graduates Head to the Other Cambridge
Four seniors have won Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2021-22 academic year. Ashley Cooper, of Quincy House, a joint concentrator in neuroscience and anthropology with a secondary field in the history of science, …
Issue: July-August 2021
Ban Ki-Moon HKS Class Day Speech
As prepared for delivery: Thank you for your warm introduction. Dr. Doug Elmendorf, dean of Harvard Kennedy School, distinguished professors of Harvard Kennedy School, dear Harvard Kennedy School Class of 2023, dear family members, friends, ladies and …
Chapter & Verse
David Azzolina writes: “Psychotherapist Alfred Adler is quoted as having said, ‘The only normal people are people you don’t know well enough yet,’ or words to that effect. I have not been able to verify that quote with a legitimate source. I even wrote …
Issue: March-April 2015
Harvard Law Weighs In
As legal education and the profession face substantial change—with law graduates’ careers developing in increasingly varied, often global, contexts—Harvard Law School (HLS) kicked off its “Campaign for the Third Century” on October 23, becoming the last …
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Issue: January-February 2016
Filmmaker Robert Gardner Dies at 88
Robert Gardner ’48, A.M. ’58, the noted anthropological filmmaker who founded the Harvard Film Study Center, has died of cardiac arrest at age 88, as The New York Times and The Boston Globe have reported. Gardner taught filmmaking in the department of …
Thank You For Reading
Harvard Magazine , founded by alumni, continues to operate as an entirely independent, journalistic nonprofit enterprise devoted to serving readers, keeping you connected with six print issues annually and much additional online reporting on our …
Harvardians Short-listed for National Book Awards
University affiliates were named finalists in all four National Book Award categories today. In nonfiction, Kemper professor of American history Jill Lepore was nominated for Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin. A Bancroft Prize winner …
Shedding Light on Life
The scenes are familiar from biology textbooks. A long string of DNA is copied to form a matching strand. A virus infects a cell by stealing through its membrane. Two white blood cells meet and confer before launching an immune attack. In textbooks, all …
Issue: May-June 2008
Orchestrating Attention: “The Most Substantive Work You Can Do”
While quarantining , California-based artist and writer Jenny Odell, who sees walking as fundamental to thinking, found her usual refuge, Oakland’s Morcom Amphitheatre of Roses, closed. Instead, as she told viewers tuning into the Graduate School of …
Never Alone
Looking out at a crowd of 804 about-to-be Harvard Law School (HLS) graduates at class day May 22, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland spoke about work. After years of tiring study, graduates might not want to think more about labor. But Haaland did …