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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 …
50 Marathons in 50 States: Scott Kline
Harvard Law School graduate Scott Kline ’88 ran his second Boston Marathon on April 15th, 2024—but his 51st marathon total. Over the past decade, Scott's mission has been running a marathon in all 50 states. … Harvard Law School's Scott Kline ’88. … 50 …
The Long Game
Brian Ma ’23 [’24], who this year recorded the lowest scoring average of any Ivy League golfer—and the best in Harvard’s history—is quick to emphasize that he was never a prodigy. Unlike Tiger Woods, who was coached extensively by his father from the age …
Issue: July-August 2022
More Housing in Allston
At a public meeting on November 30, representatives from developer Samuels & Associates and Elkus Manfredi Architects presented revised plans for a 274-unit residential apartment building at 180 Western Avenue in Allston. The site lies at the intersection …
“Crossing Boundaries”
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust, founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS), will become the twenty-eighth president of Harvard University on July 1. She was elected by the Corporation, Harvard’s senior governing board, with the …
Rethinking the Medical Curriculum
Harvard Medical School (HMS) is reforming its four-year curriculum structurally, pedagogically, and philosophically. The new curriculum, which builds on the New Pathway curricular reform of 1987 and an iterative update in 2006 called the New Integrated …
Issue: September-October 2015
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
Challenges on the Field and Off
Beset by an ugly string of off-season incidents, the football team sought to make amends on the playing field. After pounding Holy Cross, 31-14, in a sun-soaked home opener, the team downed Brown, 38-21, and came from behind to edge Lehigh, 35-33. The …
Issue: November-December 2006
Harvard’s 2017 Honorary-Degree Recipients, from A to Z
DURING THE MORNING EXERCISES of the 366th Commencement, on May 25, Harvard planned to confer honorary degrees on six men and four women. Among them are: a physician and human-rights activist who has sheltered tens of thousands of refugees in war-torn …
Rebelling and Expelling
By most standards, 2020 wasn’t a great year to graduate: as a pandemic worsened, seniors left professors and friends behind and dealt with a graduation ceremony held online. At least they got degrees. Shortly before the graduation of the class of 1823, 43 …
Issue: September-October 2020
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Harvard and the Middle East War Robert Soto and Robert Park ( Letters, May-June, pages 8 and 69) are both very concerned that Harvard doesn’t care about the Gazan victims of the war that Hamas began on October 7. Soto wants “equal condemnation” of what he …
Issue: July-August 2024
“To Be True to Our Complicated History”
Midway through the list of names was when the crowd fell fully silent. Some 300 people, suddenly pinned in place, stood motionless in a half-circle around the outdoor podium where Janet Halley, Royall professor of law, was reading out the names of slaves …
Parklands and Wastewater
Wandering the hilly paths of Boston Harbor ’s Deer Island, breathing in the ocean breeze and marveling at panoramic views, visitors would never know what exactly goes on beyond the security gates, or inside the giant steel eggs that dominate the southern …
Issue: May-June 2022
Off the Shelf
Harvardiana. The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith, edited by Richard P.F. Holt (Cambridge, $34.99). Economists today may look down on Galbraith’s economics—but can any of them write as he did? Includes the classic exchange with Dean Henry …
Issue: September-October 2017