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Two Buildings, Many Obstacles
Two Buildings, Many Obstacles Permit hurdles remained as this magazine went to press, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' (FAS) long-delayed effort to cluster the government department and 11 regional studies centers in neighboring buildings is at an …
Reworking the Workplace
American labor law is broken, argues a report released in late January by Clean Slate for Worker Power , a project of Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program. This is not just an academic problem, the report argues: in an era of flat wages and …
Issue: March-April 2020
Sexual Harassment Survivors Condemn Harvard's Investigation Process
On Monday evening , four women who have accused former Harvard government professor Jorge Domínguez of sexual misconduct spoke out about their experiences and criticized Harvard’s response to complaints like theirs. Calling the University’s response …
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
Goal-Oriented
Football player John McCluskey '66 first put things into perspective during his senior year. "My mind was beginning to drift a bit," he says about the fall of 1965. "I mean, football was important, but I'd pick up the news paper and read about what was …
Issue: November-December 2004
Aging Gracefully at Home
As board president of Staying Put in New Canaan, Tom Towers, M.B.A. ’64, believes in self-reliance. The Connecticut organization, modeled after Boston’s Beacon Hill Village, provides practical services, classes, and community connections for town …
Issue: January-February 2008
Off the Shelf
City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present, by Alex Krieger, professor in practice of urban design (Harvard, $35). Americans romanticize the pastoral countryside and clustering in suburbs, but cities—and visions of better …
Issue: January-February 2020
The Way of Trout
Strange to say, swimming through rough water may actually be easier than swimming across a calm pond. At least that's true for many kinds of fish, whose body structure allows them to capitalize on turbulence and use the water's energy to propel themselves …
Issue: March-April 2004
Speaking Pheromone
P ellegrino University Professor emeritus E.O. (Edward Osborne) Wilson has been acclaimed for work across an astonishing range of life sciences: study of individual ant genera; explicating biodiversity and sociobiology; and, of late, increasingly urgent …
Issue: November-December 2021
Greg Stone, An Emerging Novelist at 70
Greg Stone ’75 was in a hospital bed four years ago when the idea came to him for the murder mystery he’d always wanted to write. After a major back surgery, complications had landed him in the ICU, where he spent a week recovering in a medicated haze, …
Issue: January-February 2024
Scenes from Commencement
Jim Harrison Seniors are led to Baccalaureate by class marshals (from left) Daniel Droller, of Eliot House and Pelham, New York; first marshal Gerard Hammond, of Cabot House and Brooklyn; Avik Chatterjee, of Adams House and Cary, North Carolina; and Nick …
Issue: July-August 2002
“A Melodic Being”
“The drums are calling out your name,” Ali Sethi ’06 exhorted the gyrating audience in Sanders Theatre, as he and his bandmates wound toward the climax of the night’s final number, a song with roots stretching back to the medieval period in what is now …
Issue: November-December 2019
Language Wars
Lest you take these English words for granted, consider this: when the United States was founded, only 40 percent of the people living within its boundaries spoke English as their first language. Widener Library's shelves hold testaments to our …
Issue: March-April 2002
Is Climate Change Ruining Fall?
New England displays some of the most dramatic fall color in the world. The crowds of leaf-peepers who come here to see color in the mountains also show up to take in Harvard’s yellowwoods, maples, oaks, and honey locusts. But foliage hunters may have …
The Press Professor
Nicholas Lemann ’76 seems an unlikely candidate for the role of higher-education reformer. Best known as a columnist and Washington correspondent for the New Yorker, he doesn’t hold a graduate degree. He has taught occasional journalism classes, but has …
Issue: September-October 2005