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Harvard Football’s Star Punter Makes History
Before the Harvard football team opened its 2021 season—its 147th— on September 18 against Georgetown with a 44-9 victory, the Crimson’s most decorated returnee, Jon Sot ’22, manned a position not generally in the spotlight during this era of high-flying …
Issue: November-December 2021
Permafrost Fare
Community cookbooks are not known for remarkable scope and ambition. As delicious as a favorite pasta salad might be, it tastes about the same whether made in Arkansas, Nevada, or Maine, jokes Marylène Altieri, Schlesinger Library curator of books and …
Issue: September-October 2022
Dutch Discipline, American Grit
Harvard hadn’t beaten Princeton in 22 years. But last October, in Tjerk van Herwaarden’s fifth season as the Crimson field-hockey coach, his team had a chance to break the curse. The Crimson traveled to Princeton on a six-game winning streak, with a 4-0 …
Issue: September-October 2017
A Faculty’s Vision
On July 28, Harvard’s neighbor published the final report of the Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education, and obligingly made it available for interested parties ( web.mit.edu/future-report/TaskForceFinal_July28.pdf ). Even in mid summer, …
Issue: November-December 2014
Thai Tastes in Watertown
New England winters seem made for Thai basil. Fiercer than its Italian cousin, this purple-stemmed variety has a slight anise flavor and spicy kick that warms the entire body. It stars in the wide-noodle kee mao and saucy eggplant stir-fry at Watertown’s …
Issue: January-February 2021
True Crime
Before Netflix-watchers debated whether Carole Baskin fed her husband to tigers in the docuseries Tiger King, before Serial podcast sleuths investigated the murder of Hae Min Lee, and before the televised O.J. Simpson murder trial forever changed the way …
Issue: January-February 2022
Dolores Huerta to Receive Radcliffe Medal
Dolores Huerta , the labor and civil-rights activist who co-founded the National Farmworkers Association (now the United Farm Workers), will receive the Radcliffe Medal and speak to guests at Radcliffe Day on May 31, during Commencement week. Huerta is …
Off the Shelf
Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America, by Hugh Eakin ’96 (Crown, $32.99). This learned, brilliantly written account explains how the European avant-garde came to captivate the American elite—as now embodied in that “hegemonic empire of art and …
Issue: November-December 2022
Teaching Nutrition in Medical Education
When Kamber Hart enrolled in Harvard Medical School’s (HMS) new elective course, NCE 522: Culinary Medicine and Nutrition, during her final semester this spring, she was in part motivated by the benefits to her own health. Students get to cook and eat …
“Harvard Failed Her”
In a message to the community this afternoon, President Lawrence S. Bacow announced that Harvard had “failed” Terry Karl, now an emerita professor of government at Stanford, when it did not take seriously her complaints concerning sexual harassment and …
Harvard Sundered
In a November Letter from Israel, chillingly titled “In the Cities of Killing” (adapted from Hayim Nahman Bailik’s 1904 poem about the Kishinev pogrom), New Yorker editor David Remnick, who has reported from the region for decades, quoted Sam Bahour, an …
Issue: January-February 2024
“Carving Out Time”
In a new exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums, “LaToya M. Hobbs: It’s Time” (on view until July 21), the painter and printmaker LaToya M. Hobbs challenges the assumption that motherhood and artistry are inherently at odds. The centerpiece of the exhibition …
Off the Shelf
The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China, by Minxin Pei, Ph.D. ’91 (Harvard, $35). A professor of government at Claremont McKenna details the technology (cameras, AI facial recognition, and phone tracking) and enormous …
Issue: March-April 2024
The Childcare Crisis
Lauren Birchfield Kennedy, J.D. ’09, and Sarah Siegel Muncey, Ed.M. ’05, met through a mutual friend when they were both pregnant. “Our babies were born within just a couple days of each other,” Kennedy says, “and like so many working moms, we thought, …
Vincent H. Bish Jr.'s Graduate English address
Four Lone Names “ Because it was illegal for them to practice religion, slaves would use a traditional kettle to pray. Prayers for freedom were often whispered into the kettles, which were often kept under floorboards of slave cabins to keep them out of …