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Dinner Without the Din
After spending the evening at an unnamed establishment, hollering at fellow dinner guests just to be heard, we were inspired to find a few reliably conversation-friendly haunts. A call to the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, seeking guidance and …
Issue: November-December 2015
Putting Social Progress on Par with Prosperity
What are the ingredients of a healthy, inclusive society—one that offers its citizens opportunity, happiness, and a positive quality of life? According to Lawrence University Professor Michael E. Porter, models of human development based on economic …
Issue: November-December 2015
“Decarcerating” America
As she assumes her new role as organizing fellow for Harvard Law School’s new Institute to End Mass Incarceration (IEMI), community organizer Brittany White finds herself thinking of Bianca. She met her in 2009, when both women were serving prison …
Issue: November-December 2021
Urban Forays
Compared to that vast metropolitan zone to the southwest where concrete environs pack in the summer heat like a giant beehive oven, Greater Boston is an airy, pleasant place to spend the summer. The student population ebbs and easy access to open space, …
Issue: July-August 2015
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Finding a Fellow The search for a new member of the Harvard Corporation—to fill the vacancy created by Conrad K. Harper’s resignation last July—is in the hands of a six-member committee. Its members are three current Fellows of the Corporation ( …
Issue: November-December 2005
Off the Shelf
Painting with Monet, by Harmon Siegel, Ph.D. ’21, JF (Princeton, $65). A Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows performs the incredibly useful service of opening even untutored eyes to the ways artists work. Drawing on the results of Claude Monet’s …
Issue: July-August 2024
Greening China
Three decades of rapid economic growth in China have been accompanied by severe environmental degradation. In July 2007, the Financial Times headlined an article about a World Bank report on this problem, “750,000 a year killed by Chinese pollution.” Our …
Issue: September-October 2008
Tackling Football Trauma
A crushed nose , a snapped collarbone, a finger jabbed in an eye that drew blood: these were the minor injuries sustained at 1894’s brutal rendition of the Harvard-Yale football game. One tackle took a blow to the head so hard, his teammates had to point …
Issue: July-August 2015
Gender Gap
On January 14, President Lawrence H. Summers appeared as a luncheon speaker at "Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce," a two-day symposium hosted by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Addressing a national academic audience -- rather …
Issue: March-April 2005
Warm Quinoa Salad with Roasted Fava Beans, Beets, Grapes, and Arugula
Warm Quinoa Salad with Roasted Fava Beans, Beets, Grapes, and Arugula Serves 4 Ingredients • 1 cup Red Quinoa, cooked (use your favorite grain if quinoa is not available) • 1 cup Fava Beans (use canned or dried beans, or substitute with Garbanzo …
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Gender Milestone For the first time, slightly more women than men will enroll in the cohort of students entering Harvard College, making the class of 2008 an historic group even before they begin their studies. Although the official final count awaits the …
Issue: September-October 2004
The “Little Object That Speaks Loudly”
Broken wine bottles, clay tobacco pipes, and fancy baubles—including, most recently, a pair of silver-alloy cufflinks: these are the small pieces of life at early Harvard that archaeologists have dug up during the last decade. Though archival accounts …
“A Rule-Based System”
UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, LL.D. '04, spoke as the guest of the Harvard Alumni Association at its annual Commencement day meeting. Excerpts from his address, "Three Crises, and the Need for American Leadership," follow. Kofi Annan Photograph by …
Issue: July-August 2004
A Verdant Cultural Retreat
Before stepping through the Gothic Revival gates of Forest Hills Cemetery, tour guide Dee Morris tells visitors, “Take your troubles, anything that’s bothering you, and leave them out here.” The 275 acres of towering trees, winding paths, sculptures, and …
Issue: March-April 2022
On Your Honor
When the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted last May to adopt an undergraduate honor code , in the wake of the largest recent case of student misconduct on an examination , debate swirled around implementation: how, exactly, students would affirm …