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Self-Definition
From the book Joel Derfner’s new book reveals some hidden depths. “In theater, things move very slowly and it’s difficult to get anything done,” says Joel Derfner ’95 . That’s why the song writer and author calls his decision to produce a book largely …
Issue: September-October 2008
A Workable Democracy
Justice Stephen G. Breyer, LL.B. ’64, sometimes says that his job and that of other members of the Supreme Court is to speak for the law. He does not mean that justices are Platonic Guardians, with ironclad power to impose their will on the nation despite …
Issue: March-April 2017
Q & A
Listen to the live audio recording. [video:http://harvardmagazine.com/sites/default/files/media/0605-Woods.mp3 width:220 height:20] Anthony Christopher Woods, M.P.P. ’08, of the Harvard Kennedy School, delivers his Graduate English Address, “Q & A,” at …
When Farmers Met Foragers
A question mark has long hovered over human transitions from hunting and gathering to farming: did agriculture spread by communication—in archaeological parlance, by diffusion? Or did the early practitioners of farming migrate, carrying their technology …
Issue: January-February 2008
University Arts Initiative Launched
President Drew Faust made the inaugural performance at the New College Theatre, on November 1, the setting for her announcement of a University-wide arts initiative. A faculty task force involving several Harvard schools has been chartered to examine in a …
The New Republican Mavericks of Cambridge
It has been a very disheartening few months,” says Declan Garvey ’17, president of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC). A year ago, the members of the oldest College Republicans chapter in the United States were gearing up for what promised to be a bright …
“Generational Pivot”
At Tuesday’s Kennedy School Forum event with former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86 , there were echoes of another campus arena: Lavietes Pavilion, the home of Harvard basketball . For one thing, the men’s basketball team filled three rows up …
Jeannie Suk Gersen: Do Elite Colleges Discriminate Against Asian Americans?
Decades of Supreme Court precedent says colleges can use affirmative action in admissions—but the court's new composition could change all that. In this episode, Harvard Law School professor Jeannie Suk Gersen breaks down everything you need to know …
Controversial Visitor
Even before he arrived in the United States for a 12-day speaking tour, Mohammad Khatami, the former president of Iran, stirred controversy. Khatami heads the International Center for Dialogue among Nations, a nongovernmental organizaion for which he has …
Issue: November-December 2006
The Stadium, Returfed
Record it for the history books: the last of 646 football games played on natural grass at Harvard Stadium since 1903 is over and gone—the Crimson’s 29-3 rout of Pennsylvania on November 12, 2005. This summer, crews are replacing the grass with a new …
Issue: July-August 2006
Also Heard
[ T ] he fourth and last thing that I learned at Harvard Business School, and the thing that may be most important to the people here today, is to take personal risks.… Most of you are like me—you leave here broke, completely broke. I was $60,000 in …
Issue: July-August 2005
A Musical Education
Harpsichordist Irma Rogell ’39 made her stage debut, in Boston’s Jordan Hall, at the age of 40. Her background, as the last pupil of Wanda Landowska, the Polish-French harpsichordist credited with reviving popular interest in that instrument, spoke for …
Issue: May-June 2005
Unfinished Business
The conclusion of Drew Faust’s presidency coincides with Michael D. Smith’s announced departure from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) deanship. Faust and Smith, like Neil L. Rudenstine and Jeremy R. Knowles, held their offices for the duration of a …
Issue: July-August 2018
Re-Development
After two years in limbo, the Center for International Development (CID) has at least a temporary new lease on life. The appointment of Kamal professor of public policy Mark R. Rosenzweig, a development economist, as the center's director suggests a …
Issue: November-December 2004
Harvard Calendar
THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents Marcel Marceau and the Marceau Company in Les Contes Fantastiques (Fantastic Fables), a collection of mime performances, from September 10 through October 9 at the Loeb Drama Center. For tickets and …
Issue: September-October 2004