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“Little Shards of Dissonance”
At some point , while preparing for the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Davóne Tines ’09 and Michael Shachter ’09 were freshly struck by their circumstances. Their piece Were You There , a musical meditation on racial violence, starts with Handel and …
Issue: September-October 2018
Allston Agonistes
For three decades, “Allston” has represented what an investor might consider Harvard’s ultimate option. It is the way for an increasingly built-out, landlocked institution nearing its 400th anniversary to continue to dream and grow. But at some point, the …
Issue: September-October 2018
Highbrow Lingerie
Lingerie and literature don’t come together that often, but when naming her intimates brand, fashion designer Laura Mehlinger ’01 turned to Vladimir Nabokov. Lola Haze™ alludes to Lolita , the subject of Mehlinger’s senior honors thesis in English. “Lola” …
Issue: May-June 2010
Cambridge 02138
The Power Problem Part of the problem in energizing a passive public about the carbon problem is that the term “global warming” is too tame. It hasn’t motivated people like me to acknowledge the severity and immediacy, yet solubility, of the problem. In …
Issue: July-August 2006
“No Limits” to China-Russia Relations?
How might the war in Ukraine affect the relationship between Russia and China—perhaps the most important prospective big-power alliance in the world? “The honest answer with a lot of these issues is, it’s such a black box that we don’t really know,” China …
Are Animals “Things”?
Jeremy and Kathryn Medlen have two children, but with eight-year-old Avery around, it often felt like three. A beloved mixed-breed mutt with flopped-forward Labrador ears, Avery was a member of the family, welcome on the couch, included on vacations, a …
Issue: March-April 2016
Lafayette 35, Harvard 18
With Halloween still two weeks away, hobgoblins were at play in Harvard Stadium on Saturday. Taking full advantage of early Harvard turnovers, dropped passes, and penalties at critical junctures, a determined Lafayette squad built a 28-3 halftime lead and …
“That Human Element”
A year and a half ago, in the early months of the pandemic, Houghton archivist Dorothy Berry began a project to digitize materials from the library’s collection related to African American history and culture. This January, the finished product made its …
"I'll Never Get Over What Happened to My Son"
About halfway through Monday evening’s panel discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School, Lezley McSpadden announced that she was considering a run for city council in Ferguson, Missouri, where in 2014 her teenage son, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by a …
Yale Estimates 25 Percent Endowment Decline, Phases Budget Cuts
Yale President Richard C. Levin on December 16 wrote to the Eli community , outlining a negative 13.4 percent investment return on public securities in its endowment from July 1 through October 31, and providing estimates of the value of illiquid …
Experimental Magic
It’s not the sabbath, but something is going on inside St. Anne & the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Brooklyn Heights. Among those in the pews are a young man in a bright yellow beanie, an elderly woman with a butterfly tattoo on her shoulder, a girl …
Issue: March-April 2022
Looking Back at the Lampoon’s Heyday
Doug Kenney ’68 used to go around Hollywood claiming he’d created nostalgia—or at least co-created it, and at least for a certain stripe of American male. Alongside fellow Harvard men Henry Beard ’67 and Rob Hoffmann ’67, M.B.A. ’72, Kenney made a career …
Broadsheet Coffee Roasters
Figuring that “day-trading my stock portfolio was not the best use of my time,” former banker Aaron MacDougall ’94 chose instead to open Broadsheet Coffee Roasters, a specialty coffee house in Cambridge that aims to educate as it caffeinates. MacDougall …
Issue: March-April 2018
Free to Fly
Inside the conservatory , it doesn’t take long for one of them to land on Kathy Fiore’s forearm. The large rice paper butterfly, a silvery yellow with black veined lines, hails from Southeast Asia. Although it flies in a gentle, floating manner and is now …
Issue: November-December 2023
Modern Milk
The milk we drink today may not be nature’s perfect food,” says Ganmaa Davaasambuu, a Mongolian physician who is a fellow this year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Even as the scientific community has become interested in the effects of the …
Issue: May-June 2007