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Listings by category: Seasonal Theater Film Libraries Exhibitions Nature and Science Music Seasonal • March 18, at 2 p.m. www.boxoffice.harvard.edu ; 617-496-2222 Jane Goodall speaks at Sanders Theatre, receives an award, and then signs copies of Dale …
Issue: March-April 2007
Urban Enchantment
Twinkling lights, decorated storefronts, snowy sidewalks, candlelit brownstones: There’s nowhere quite like Boston for the holidays. In Cambridge, Harvard Square’s Charles Hotel ( charleshotel.com ) officially marks the season with their annual tree …
Issue: November-December 2024
Why Ivy Athletes Score in Careers
What role should athletics play in Ivy League college admissions? Do athletes merely take spots from more academically qualified applicants? Or does participation in sports build a special kind of human capital that isn’t taught in classrooms, one that …
Issue: November-December 2024
"Unsales" Pitches
These days, prescription drug ads bombard the consumer at every turn. Even so, the $4 billion spent annually on direct-to-consumer advertisingenabled by federal legislation in 1997pales by comparison to what drug companies spend on marketing to doctors. …
Issue: November-December 2006
Every Play Breaks a Record
Watch him this fall, if you can: football players of Clifton Dawson’s caliber don’t show up very often in Harvard Stadium. The record books, in fact, have never seen his equal: Dawson has already set every single-season and career rushing record that …
Issue: September-October 2006
Sex and the Inner City
The sexual and romantic habits of urban black males have long been a subject of scrutiny. Forty years ago, the Moynihan Report— The Negro Family: The Case for National Action —decried the prevalence of female-headed households in urban ghettoes …
Issue: March-April 2006
A Ministry of Presence
On Thursday afternoon at exactly 3 o’clock, a small white van emerged from the swirl of traffic in Harvard Square and pulled over next to the Cambridge kiosk. Five people climbed out—three wearing winter coats over their long brown robes—and began setting …
A Painting with "Legs"
L ike the poems Emily Dickinson stored in her attic, or John Steinbeck’s repeatedly rejected early manuscripts, one of America’s best-known paintings was almost lost. American Gothic, Grant Wood’s ubiquitous vision of Midwestern farmers posing before …
Issue: May-June 2005
Your Vote Counts
Alumni will choose five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) in annual elections this spring. To be counted, votes must be received by noon on June 3. Results will be announced at the HAA’s annual …
Issue: May-June 2005
Untangling the Brain
Modern neuroscience rests on the assumption that our thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and behaviors emerge from electrical and chemical communication between brain cells: that whenever we recognize a face, read the newspaper, throw a ball, engage in a …
Issue: May-June 2009
Money-Manager Transition
The University announced on January 11 that Jack R. Meyer, M.B.A. '69, president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company (HMC), would "conclude his service" sometime after the close of the fiscal year in June. Meyer has been at HMC's …
Issue: March-April 2005
Comic License
In the television show Master of None , two Asian-American friends treat their parents to dinner. Awkwardly, one announces the purpose of the meal: “We wanted to learn more about you and how you got here.” But when prompted to share a story, his father is …
Issue: July-August 2017
“The Value of Noticing”
“You have stood up and stood out,” President Drew Faust told the graduating seniors of 2017 in the opening frame of her May 23 Baccalaureate address. “The value of being noticed, especially on social media, has been a powerful force in your lives.” …
A Certain Slant of Light
Next fall , Houghton Library will publish a gift-book edition of some lesser-known lines by Emily Dickinson: her recipe for black cake, brief on the page but epic in scale. The librarians have twice undertaken making this dessert, which calls for, among …
“Old” Food Reduces Lifespan
What causes aging ? “Scientists have been thinking about this question for centuries,” says Harvard professor of medicine Vadim Gladyshev. It sounds almost simple, but in fact it’s thorny and complicated, and although several theories have emerged—that …