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Among the Brokenhearted
Matthew Ichihashi Potts looks forward to brewing his signature pour-over coffee every morning. It’s a meditative moment—beans become grounds, still water boils, and the two steep together for precisely three minutes. It’s his morning routine, but now, as …
Issue: May-June 2023
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 …
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
“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 …
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
“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 …
Extracurriculars
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
"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
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
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
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