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Murphy Time
November 19, 2011. The Yale Bowl. There are seven minutes remaining in the second quarter and the heavily favored Harvard football team is being given all it can handle by scrappy archrival Yale. Nursing a 14-7 lead, the Crimson has driven to the Eli 5, …
Issue: November-December 2015
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Cass Sunstein As Homer tells us, when the Olympians come down from the heights to interfere with mere mortals, the consequences can be unpredictable at best and harmful at worst. Thus, I read Lincoln Caplan’s article about Cass Sunstein’s years in the …
Issue: March-April 2015
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 …
A Mouse, and Other Surprises
“In this perilous, suffering world and in this deeply troubled nation,” as John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, characterized them, perhaps just what is wanted in a Commencement speaker is an actor to read a children’s story about a mouse named Mahalia. Lithgow …
Issue: July-August 2005
News Briefs
How Harvard Handles Harassment In the wake of the charges of persistent sexual harassment brought against Jorge Domínguez, former Madero professor for the study of Mexico and Harvard’s first vice provost for international affairs, a committee will review …
Issue: November-December 2019
The $2-Trillion War
War is messy, and putting a price tag on a war that stretches over years, with consequences lasting decades longer, is a staggering task. Yet in a democratic society whose citizens expect to know what they are paying for, someone has to do it. Linda …
Issue: May-June 2006
The Renovated Harvard Coop
T he Harvard Coop finished its latest renovation project and celebrated its grand reopening on September 20. A few days later, in a Boston Globe op-ed, Joan Wickersham declared that “the renovated Coop is an embarrassment and a travesty,” because it …
Lifestyle and Long COVID Linked
Could a healthy lifestyle protect against long COVID? An analysis of data from the long-running Nurses’ Health Study II by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers finds that among these mostly white, middle-aged females, those with five or …
Hockey Highlights—and Heartache
National Runners-Up The women’s hockey team —under Landry Family head coach Katey Stone for the twentieth season—finished 27-6-3: a tremendous year marked by the Beanpot championship, Ivy League title (8-2), and the Eastern College Athletic Conference …
Issue: May-June 2015
Edgar James Banks
Wearing Arab robes, grasping a rifle, the archaeologist glares out from the printed page. It might be T.E. Lawrence, but this is a very different man—not a warrior but a canny entrepreneur: Edgar J. Banks, A.B. 1893, A.M. ’94. Views of him differ. While …
Issue: November-December 2021
Raj Chetty Will Return to Harvard
Raj Chetty , professor of economics at Stanford and one of the world’s foremost researchers on economic mobility and inequality, will return to Harvard this fall. Chetty was a professor of economics at Harvard from 2009 through 2015, and his departure was …
Claudia Jones
Next to the enormous bust of Karl Marx in London’s Highgate Cemetery lies a small stone marking the ashes of a remarkable woman: Claudia Jones. Born in Trinidad, she immigrated as a child to New York City, where she lived until she was deported to Britain …
Issue: September-October 2020
Dancer Damian Woetzel Named Arts Medalist
Damian Woetzel, M.P.A. ’07, a ballet dancer whose career spanned nearly two decades as a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, is the 2015 Harvard Arts Medalist , the Office for the Arts announced Monday. Woetzel will receive his award in an April …
Dunster House First to Be Fully Renovated
Harvard announced today that Dunster will become the first of its 12 undergraduate Houses to be fully renewed under an ambitious, multidecade program in which the River House renovations alone are expected to cost more than $1 billion . Faculty of Arts …
Pallas Chou ’23, Senior English Address
Enzymes Pallas Chou ’23 Senior English Address I love enzymes. Tiny molecular machines, too small to be seen by the naked eye, they’re in each of our cells, performing important life functions like helping us breathe and allowing us to eat and digest …