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Chapter & Verse
Stuart Kirsch seeks a source “for what many commentators, including Alan Dershowitz in The Vanishing American Jew, refer to as a ‘quip’ or ‘anecdote’: ‘A Jew is defined as someone who has (or will have) Jewish grandchildren.’” Stephen Josephs asks who …
Issue: July-August 2015
Matthew Potts Appointed Harvard Pusey Minister
M atthew Ichihashi Potts, professor of religious studies and literature, has been appointed Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer professor of Christian morals, effective July 1. He succeeds interim minister Stephanie Paulsell , following …
Asteroid-Naming in the New Millennium
Acting out of "a sense of public duty," Ashok Nimgade '80, M.P.H. '98, M.D., of Boston, has forwarded for publication a copy of a letter he knows to have been sent by David Anthony Garcia '81 to Brian G. Marsden at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for …
Harvard Magazine Scavenger Hunt Prize Rules
NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS SWEEPSTAKES. A purchase will not improve chances of winning. OPEN ONLY TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WHO ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD AS OF THE DATE …
Al Fresco
Imagine this: someone other than yourself laboring to prepare fresh Italian food, and serving it with a real smile? The joys of dining out after months of pandemic isolation have never been so welcome: “How do you like your meal? What else may I get for …
Issue: May-June 2021
Off the Shelf
Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System, by Jed S. Rakoff, J.D. ’69 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27). A former federal prosecutor and private defense attorney, and a senior U.S. District Court …
Issue: March-April 2021
In this Issue
Yesterdays News Harvard Portrait Interim Agendas An Allston Metamorphosis? Adios, Early Admissions Money-Management Makeover Controversial Visitor Bigger Biology Brevia Sciences and Gender The Undergraduate Sports Alumni The College Pump Journal Opener …
Issue: November-December 2006
Hybrid Work’s Sweet Spot
Does hybrid work harm the bottom line? As organizations across the United States wrestle with post-COVID office policies, researchers at Harvard Business School (HBS) present evidence for an optimally productive blended office-and-home schedule. Their …
Issue: January-February 2023
Geopolitics and the Energy Transition
On January 25, Kirkpatrick professor of the practice of international affairs Meghan O’Sullivan, director of the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs since last summer, spoke about the impact of the energy transition on …
Building a Better World
Buried beneath the ground at the highest point in Poughkeepsie, New York, sits a 36,000-square-foot concrete cistern built in 1923 to hold the city’s water supply. Replaced in 2017 after it sprang a leak, drained and fenced off from passersby, the cistern …
Issue: May-June 2023
Three Alumni Named as National Book Award Finalists
Three Harvard alumni were among the nominees announced on Tuesday as finalists for the 2022 National Book Awards. In the nonfiction category, Princeton historian Imani Perry, J.D.-Ph.D.’00, was nominated for South to America: A Journey Below the …
Workers and Wages
At a time of national concern about stagnating incomes, rising inequality, and middle-class malaise, the University confronted contentious issues with its lowest-paid workers throughout the autumn, yielding the first strike in more than three decades; a …
Marina N. Bolotnikova , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: January-February 2017
Beyond the SAT
Nicholas Lemann ’76, dean of the Columbia Journalism School from 2003 to 2013 ( “The Press Professor,” September-October 2005, page 78), has, among other works, written the definitive history of standardized testing, T he Big Test: The Secret History of …
Issue: September-October 2024
New Look for Lavietes
Harvard’s Lavietes Pavilion , built in the 1920s as an indoor-track center and converted to basketball use in 1982, is being extensively renovated and modestly expanded. Construction began in May, and as the fall term began, workers had installed new …
“This Entire Campus Belongs to You”
Sade Abraham’s timing could not have been better. When she arrived at the Graduate School of Education for a one-year master’s program in 2017, she began inquiring about what Harvard does to support first-generation and low-income students. The first in …