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Capital Planning Chief Appointed
The University announced today that its search for a vice president for capital planning and project management (a new senior administrative post intended to unify those functions across the Cambridge campus, the Longwood Medical Area, and Harvard's …
Near and Distant Objectives
The opening words of Noah Feldman’s latest book, The Arab Winter, are in Arabic: Al-sha‘b Yurid Isqat al-nizam! The people Want The overthrow of the regime! As he explains in his first sentence, “These words, chanted rhythmically all over the …
Issue: September-October 2020
Activist Administrator
The executive vice president’s website defines the post, neutrally, as the University’s “principal ranking officer…on business and organizational matters.” But Katie Lapp’s self-definition continues in a more action-oriented tone, describing her …
Issue: September-October 2010
A Garden of Prose
The 2,000-square-foot vegetable plot—planted with fava beans, peas, arugula, raspberries, even artichokes—that author Francine Prose ’68, A.M. ’69, cultivates at her upstate New York home has become, she says, “an obsession. Sometimes I think I write for …
Issue: September-October 2010
“Twenty Questions” with William Deresiewicz
On Monday night, a chattering crowd packed Paine Hall to watch William Deresiewicz, author of the controversial new book Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, address his complaints about the Ivy League. …
Robin Kelsey: Is a Photograph a Work of Art?
What makes a photograph art ? A great photograph may be the result of skill and intention, or it may be the result of dumb luck: a fleeting, perfect composition captured by chance. At a time when there is a camera in every pocket, how do curators …
Off the Shelf
This Is Not My Memoir, by André Gregory ’56 and Todd London (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26). The avant-garde director, famous for his role in My Dinner with André , commits a memoir in cinematic short takes. They are bluntly, memorably framed, as in the …
Issue: November-December 2020
Football: Harvard 35, Bucknell 7
Three defenders converged on Kyle Juszczyk at midfield as he brought down a pass from quarterback Colton Chapple. But bringing down Juszczyk is like halting a runaway train. The senior tight end broke free, stiff-armed one more would-be tackler at the …
The Harvard Center for Gastrophysics?
Surprise is Ferran Adrià’s stock in trade. He delights the diners at elBulli, his restaurant near Barcelona, with creations such as gelatin served hot; a “bubble tea” drink in which the liquid tastes of prosciutto and the bubbles of melon; and …
Issue: March-April 2009
Extracurriculars
Seasonal • April 30 to May 3 www.fas.harvard.edu/arts 617-495-8690/76 The annual Arts First festival, free and open to the public, offers an undergraduate Smörgåsbord of dances, concerts, plays, and other performances. President Drew Faust honors this …
Issue: March-April 2009
Endowment Declines 22 Percent through October 31
Going beyond the disclosures made on November 10 and November 18 , the University on December 2 released new information to deans and financial administrators indicating that the value of Harvard's endowment had declined 22 percent through October 31. (It …
$125-Million Gift for Bioengineering
Hansjörg Wyss, M.B.A. ’65, who became president of the U.S. division of Synthes in 1977 and drove the company to global leadership as a manufacturer of medical devices during the ensuing 30 years (he stepped down as CEO in 2007), has given the University …
Anthologizing Yourself
After squeezing nearly 1,000 years of creativity into the Norton Anthology of Poetry , Mary Jo Salter ’76 began the smaller but still consuming task of anthologizing her own verse. The result, A Phone Call to the Future , revives selected poems from her …
Issue: July-August 2008
Debtor Nation
Consumerism is as American as cherry pie. Plasma TVs, iPods, granite countertops: you name it, we’ll buy it. To finance the national pastime, Americans have been borrowing from abroad on an increasingly stunning scale. In 2006, the infusion of foreign …
Issue: July-August 2007
Reading the Tea Leaves
Commencements provide annual practice in uniting the Harvard community and celebrating its members, performing rituals, and parading around in funny costumes. Installations may appear similar, but are relatively infrequent (Claudine Gay’s, on September …
Issue: September-October 2023