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Things Fell Apart
Nicholas Lemann ’76— past dean of Columbia Journalism School, New Yorker staff writer —has an uncanny ability to reveal society’s undercurrents through smaller stories (standardized testing, selective admissions, etc., in The Big Test: The Secret History …
Issue: September-October 2019
The Mobile Revolution
Main Article Business for the Other Billions Ironically, nothing bedevils lower-income people gaining a foothold in the cash economy more than dealing with cash, particularly in developing nations with poor infrastructure. It’s an improvement on …
Issue: September-October 2015
Endowment Managers' Compensation Reported
Harvard Management Company (HMC) has issued its annual report on the compensation of its most highly paid in-house investment professionals. The news, often the subject of close scrutiny, comes at a particularly sensitive time. The managers' compensation …
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 Purpose of Harvard Law School
This past year, Harvard Law School (HLS) experienced an intensely public moral crisis. After the portraits of African-American professors were found defaced in Wasserstein Hall, a racial justice movement calling itself Reclaim Harvard Law School formed in …
The SIGnboard: Spring Events
Many Shared Interest Groups ( alumni.harvard.edu/haa/clubs-sigs/sigs-directory ) host get-togethers during Commencement and Reunion week. Some early listings appear below; updates will be posted here and at …
Issue: May-June 2015
Brevia
Pudding Pluralism On the occasion of honoring (and roasting) Woman of the Year Mila Kunis—a star of That 70s Show, Family Guy, Black Swan, and other series and films—on January 25 (shown above in the traditional parade), Hasty Pudding Theatricals …
Issue: March-April 2018
Ethics and Human Cells
“Harvard has been heavily involved in promoting regulatory oversight” of the use of human embryonic stem cells in research, says Insoo Hyun, director of the Center for Life Sciences and Public Learning at Boston’s Museum of Science and an affiliate of …
Issue: January-February 2024
Harvard Men Sweep Princeton and Penn
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Last Wednesday, Harvard men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker sat on a leather couch in the glass-encased lounge overlooking Lavietes Pavilion, sporting salt and pepper fuzz on his face and speaking …
Finding Their Stride?
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Entering Saturday’s Ivy League opener against Dartmouth, the Harvard men’s basketball team had thrived or perished based on the performance of reigning Ivy League Player of the Year Wesley …
How Birds Lost Flight
How did emus , ostriches, and kiwis end up flightless? What chain of events resulted in these birds diverging from the species that soar through the air and moving to a wholly terrestrial, and very successful, existence? For a long time, scientists …
Issue: March-April 2024
An Undergraduate Life in the Theater
The Google Calendar listing the conflicts for cast members looks terrifying. One has a class section from 6 to 7 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, two others have a cappella rehearsals from 7 to 10 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and a fourth is in another …
Issue: January-February 2015
“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 …
Allston Planning Explained
A room in the Holyoke Center Arcade has been fitted out to help Harvard planners communicate the University’s aspirations for an Allston campus. The move follows the release of a 40-page interim planning report last June that was intended to generate …
Issue: January-February 2006
Thrills, Baseball & Other
With this talk of thrills we are not of course referring to the 2015 Red Sox. We are harking back to the happier days of the 1927 Crimson baseball team— “one of the best of all time,” according to The Second H Book of Harvard Athletics . Isadore Zarakov …
Issue: September-October 2015