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Behind the Healthcare Debate
The healthcare reform proposals under consideration in Congress this year “are not pretty,” Yale political-science professor Jacob S. Hacker ’94 told an audience at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) on September 25. “They are meant to pass.” The …
A Faculty Motion on Divesting Fossil-Fuel Investments
As reported , the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at its regularly scheduled meeting on December 3 formally considered a motion directing the Corporation to shed any endowment assets invested in further discovery or [ Corrected December 5, 2019, 8:50 …
Brevia
Endowment Manager Earnings Harvard Management Company ’s (HMC) annual disclosure of the salary, bonus, and benefit payments to its president and five most highly paid portfolio managers, released on December 20, just before the University’s year-end …
Issue: March-April 2008
The “Father” Father
Not long ago, while up late reading in the St. Patrick parish rectory, Father Paul O’Brien ’86 heard gunshots and smelled smoke—not for the first time on the south side of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Once the golden model of an American industrial city, …
Issue: January-February 2012
Extracurriculars
Harvard Square offers something for everyone this fall: saunter down to the Charles River and join an ad hoc community choir as they light up the Weeks Footbridge, learn the latest about animal sexuality at the Cabot Science Library, watch Olympic skaters …
Issue: September-October 2007
Attend to the Cursed
Few who stood at a Harvard podium during Commencement week mentioned the war in Iraq. Joshua Patashnik '07, of Adams House and San Diego, did do so in his Harvard Oration during Class Day celebrations on Wednesday, June 6, a speech that mostly was a brief …
Issue: July-August 2007
Judy Budnitz: Flying Leaps
In Nice Big American Baby , the newest collection of short stories by Judy Budnitz ’95, the author considers mothers and babies—and the uncertain boundary between them. “Flush” tells of a mother (with a mysterious ability to disappear) and her daughters, …
Issue: March-April 2007
Iambic Imbroglio
In 19 B.C., the Roman noblemen Varius and Tucca were given an extraordinary task: destroy the Aeneid. On his deathbed, Virgil asked his friends to burn the manuscript that he had spent the last 10 years of his life working on and that, to his mind, …
Issue: January-February 2007
Prowlers Discover Harvard Valuables
Emilie Norris and Nina Cohen are the prowlers, officially sanctioned and strictly aboveboard. They range widely throughout Harvard to conduct the University Cultural Properties Survey. Norris and Cohen are invited into administrative offices, residential …
Issue: March-April 2003
Neat Lawns, Nice Neighborhoods
This may make me a less than completely loyal Harvard alumnus, but I can’t help thinking of Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson as the epitome of a faculty member at the University of Chicago, the institution from which Harvard lured him …
Issue: September-October 2006
Extracurriculars
Beat the heat this summer by exploring an assortment of activities in and around Harvard Square, ranging from a splash of eclectic exhibitions and outdoor concerts to musical theater and a trip through cinema history. Seasonal Exhibitions Nature and …
Issue: July-August 2006
Forgive, but Don’t Forget
The first person President Donald Trump pardoned, in August 2017, was Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He was infamous for being brutal to undocumented immigrants and others in his shameful jails, and cheered on by neo-Nazis. The month before, a federal judge had …
Issue: November-December 2019
Reload and Fire
In Tim Murphy’s 25 years as Harvard’s football coach, every four-year player has won or shared at least one Ivy League title. So far, this year’s seniors, the class of 2020, have been championship-less. The early part of the 2019 season—which featured a …
Issue: November-December 2019
Active Grandparenting, Costly Repair
Editors’ note: Love it or hate it, exercise is a vital component of health. Harvard Magazine has explored exercise from its epidemiological impacts and its basic biology at the level of mitochondria , to its potent anti-inflammatory effects . Several …
Issue: September-October 2020
A More Generous, Capacious America
When Werner Sollors was a boy, growing up among the ruins of postwar Germany, he had at best an indistinct idea of the distant country he would spend his adult life trying to understand. There was no sign yet that he would, decades later, become one of …
Issue: January-February 2025