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Football: Harvard 28, Columbia 21
It was the week the Cubs won the World Series. So why not add to the weirdness by having Columbia beat Harvard? For one half at Harvard Stadium this past Saturday, such a bizarre outcome seemed more than possible. Sacking Crimson quarterback Joe Viviano …
Football: Harvard 31, Georgetown 17
“The game was not as close as the score might indicate.” The most extreme case of this often jocular athletics adage occurred this past Friday night at Harvard Stadium. On a dank, sometimes rainy evening before a small, hardy assemblage, Harvard pushed …
Finding Their Rhythm
At a pre-season press conference in October, Stemberg men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker sat on a leather couch in the glass-encased lounge overlooking Lavietes Pavilion and spoke cautiously about the team’s prospects. Although the Crimson had …
House Renewal Gains and Challenges
Two days before Commencement, the College quietly published the summary of a “Strategic Assessment Report” on House renewal, the $1-billion-plus “first-phase” program to modernize the eight Neo-Georgian undergraduate residences along the Charles River …
Issue: September-October 2016
The Very Image
The work almost always begins, says writer Cynthia Zarin ’81, with an image she can’t let go of: a pair of gold earrings, a decaying woodpile full of mice and moths, a postcard of a painting by Delacroix. “I don’t start with an idea,” she explains. “I’m …
Issue: May-June 2024
A Fast Start
In April , sprinter Ngozi Musa, approaching the end of her freshman season on Harvard’s track and field team, was telling a story about the time she set her starting blocks incorrectly at the world junior championships in Eugene, Oregon. It was 2014, her …
Issue: July-August 2016
Happenings in Hartford
The Connecticut capital is often seen as a bland, bypassable insurance industry hub, a messy tangle of highways endured en route to the real city of New York. But Hartford, a seat of history, arts, and culture, has a beating heart of its own. Marking …
Issue: July-August 2023
“Going Through the Fire”
In November 2007, in just his sixth game as Harvard’s coach, Tommy Amaker and the men’s basketball team faced off against Providence College, a traditional power from the more-prominent Big East Conference. The matchup provided an early barometer of …
Football: Penn 35, Harvard 25
Gone, gone with the wind. At gale-swept Harvard Stadium last Saturday, the Crimson’s 22-game victory streak was blown away by a Penn team that used big plays on offense and an opportunistic defense to win 35-25. The defeat—Harvard’s first since a 51-48, …
Coronavirus Mutations Threaten to Worsen Pandemic
Despite the race to deploy vaccines, two new variants of SARS-CoV-2 that are more transmissible than the prevailing strain are poised to amplify spread of the pandemic worldwide, complicating control efforts, and changing the prospects for a return to …
The Undergraduate: Running Over Murphy's Law
Had anyone asked me a year ago about my biggest pet peeves, I would have said I hated running (too many bad memories of middle-school gym) and getting wet in the rain (nothing can tame my hair in the presence of humidity). It was not entirely surprising, …
Issue: September-October 2015
Caring for the Caregivers
Not long after his wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, Tom Lee picked up a book on caregiving, one of the many he’d devour in those early, frightening weeks, when the future felt suddenly impossible to imagine. Amid all the information and …
Issue: January-February 2025
The Method to (March) Madness?
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report The exchange began plainly enough. Shortly after noon on Saturday, October 25, an attendee at the Harvard men’s basketball coaching clinic asked Harvard head coach Tommy Amaker why he allows his …
Should AI Be Scaled Down?
A driving force of the competition between AI companies is the belief that bigger is better. GPT-4, the model that powers the most advanced version of ChatGPT, contains an estimated 1.8 trillion parameters, or variables that determine how it responds to …
The Burst of the South Sea Bubble
In the north lobby of Harvard Business School’s Baker Library, beneath portraits of deans dating back to the school’s founding, glass cases adorned by glowing sky-blue signs capture the curiosity of passersby and disrupt the flow of foot traffic. …