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Hip-Hop Art and French Innovators
The Museum of Fine Arts reopened for in-person visits this fall, and is celebrating its 150 th anniversary with three distinct shows. The major exhibition, “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation” (October 18-May 16) , gathers more than …
Issue: November-December 2020
Mexican Soul
Like many students, Claudia García ’05 arrived at Harvard with a clear sense of purpose. In her case, though, that purpose was a little unusual: to start a mariachi band. She’d declared as much in her College application, sending in a video of herself …
Issue: May-June 2022
The (Truly) Great Outdoors
Most of us have spent more time than usual at home lately. With spring comes the chance to branch out—literally—by venturing outside, even if it’s only into your own garden or patio. Spring also brings a renewed real estate market. If you’re hoping to …
Issue: March-April 2021
Harvard, Heeled
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report One day in the early 1980s , Harvard men’s basketball coach Frank McLaughlin got off the phone with legendary University of North Carolina coach Dean Smith, and could not have been more excited. …
The Goodness of Being Together
For many people, the most significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was the sheer weight of isolation: the abrupt absence of routine social interaction with fellow human beings, from relatives to work colleagues, classmates to cashiers. Being alone …
Issue: September-October 2024
Fixing Foreign Policy
This essay is adapted from the 2005-2006 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture, delivered on April 24 under the sponsorship of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Can American foreign policy be fixed? Whether the alarms are caused by our …
Issue: July-August 2006
News Briefs
University Professor Arrested Friedman University Professor Charles M. Lieber—a much-honored leader in nanoscale science and bio-compatible electronics, and chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology—was arrested on January 28, charged with …
Issue: March-April 2020
Hoops: "Inadvertent" Violation
The Ivy League has announced that Harvard will self-impose recruiting limits for the 2010-11 academic year after acknowledging an inadvertent "secondary" violation of the NCAA's policies of recruitment of prospective athletes. Three years ago, assistant …
Three Harvardians among Time’s 100
Time ma gazine's annual "Time 100" issue, which lists 100 people "who most affect the world" includes three Harvard faculty members. One is Gottlieb professor of law Elizabeth Warren, who chairs the Congressional Oversight Panel investigating the …
The DNA of World Literature
Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1908 poem “Archaic Torso of Apollo,” written in German, is notoriously difficult to translate. The poem, about a fragmentary statue of Apollo, is dense with enigmatic metaphors: the speaker describes the (imagined) eyes as ripening …
Emma Dench
“I was very morbid as a child,” says Emma Dench, professor of the classics and of history. “I liked dead things and dead people”—and when she visited the Roman baths in Bath, England, at seven, she says, “I realized the Romans were very, very dead.” …
Issue: March-April 2010
Sexual Harassment and Assault Reports Increase in 2018
Disclosures of potential sexual and gender-based harassment increased by 55 percent from fiscal year 2017 to FY 2018, and formal complaints increased by 7 percent, according to the joint report of the University Title IX Office and Office for Dispute …
Rowing for Boston
Competition was intense at the Women’s Crew Beanpot this past Sunday on the Charles River, but there were no team colors in sight. Spurred by the Boston Marathon bombings, 225 rowers from six area schools rallied around the efforts of Harvard-Radcliffe …
Defeat by Truth Is Victory
President Lawrence S. Bacow delivered a Morning Prayers address on August 31, following a tradition in which the Harvard president speaks in Memorial Church at the beginning of the fall term. He began by thanking those in attendance for joining him, …
Football: Harvard 41, Rhode Island 10
Live long enough and you’re bound to see something new. And so it was that the Harvard football team alighted this past Saturday for its season opener in Kingston, Rhode Island, a place where it had not played in its previous 141 seasons. Making itself …