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Teach a Man to Fish
Having spent the last days of the groundfishing season on the open ocean east of Cape Cod, Russell Sherman ’71 chugged into Gloucester Harbor in April and docked his Lady Jane at the Jodrey State Fish Pier. Running the 72-foot trawler around the clock, he …
Issue: July-August 2016
Prosperity and Equality
In a populist presidential election year pervaded by economic discontents—lagging middle-class incomes, rising inequality, and the purported workforce displacements caused by immigrants, globalization, and free-trade agreements—the Radcliffe Institute …
Danielle Allen: What Do COVID-19 and Extreme Inequality Mean for American Democracy?
America's response to the COVID-19 crisis, says political philosopher Danielle Allen , represents "the biggest possible announcement one could have of the broken state of affairs" in our nation's democracy. Allen has helped lead one of the most …
How the Ball Bounced
On a Saturday evening in early March 2011, Harvard men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker stood in the team’s locker room preparing to give one of the most important speeches of his Crimson career. In just a few minutes, Harvard would take the floor against …
Issue: May-June 2015
A New Era in Allston
After years of discussions and planning—and more than a quarter-century after the University began buying land for development in Allston—Harvard and its community and development partners are poised to effect significant change there. In coming months, …
Issue: March-April 2015
Just Perfect
Slate-gray skies and trepidation shrouded the home side of Harvard Stadium late in the afternoon of Saturday, November 22. In the big picture, the anxiety seemed unwarranted. The Crimson football team already had clinched a share of the 2014 Ivy title. It …
Issue: January-February 2015
Brevia
I Tatti’s Leadership Transition Dante scholar Lino Pertile —Pescosolido professor of Romance languages and literatures, and the retiring Eliot House master—has been appointed director of Villa I Tatti, the University’s Center for Italian Renaissance …
Issue: March-April 2010
Meet Harvard’s Undergraduate Authors
Harvard Magazine Summer Fellow Ryan Doan-Nguyen has been tackling a variety of writing assignments for the magazine. Here, he interviews four fellow students who have tackled writing projects of their own—publishing their first books. Nicole Austen ’25: …
An Artful Business
Aiming to create their own “art stimulus package” during the 2008-09 economic downturn, Emma Katz ’06 and her sister, Ani, put together an exhibit at the Brooklyn Art Space. Her job as an assistant to a Broadway producer had evaporated with the recession …
Issue: September-October 2013
E-mail Implications
A report on Harvard’s investigations of resident deans’ e-mail accounts last year —prepared by attorney Michael B. Keating, LL.B. ’65, at President Drew Faust’s request, delivered to a Corporation subcommittee July 15, and released yesterday—provides a …
Fracking’s Future
Supplies of natural gas now economically recoverable from shale in the United States could accommodate the country’s domestic demand for natural gas at current levels of consumption for more than a hundred years: an economic and strategic boon, and, at …
Issue: January-February 2013
The Whistle
John West , M.B.A. ’95, golfs with his two young sons, Jack and Danny. “They love it, but they wouldn’t sit and watch a four-hour game on TV,” he reports. “Yet if you give them clips with the game’s highlights and interviews with players, then they will. …
Issue: July-August 2012
Miserable She's Not
She made a high-energy but graceful entrance, nothing too theatrical, sat in a director's chair at a butcherblock coffee table in this reporter's office, picked up a pot containing the orchid Phalaenopsis Jungle Cat 'Bloody Mary', and asked, "Do you mind …
Issue: July-August 2003
A "Down Payment" on Financial Aid
The university has created new scholarships, launched a dedicated fundraising drive, and unveiled a low-cost loan program to assist graduate- and professional-school students pursuing public-service or academic careers. Announcing the initiatives on …
Issue: March-April 2003
A "portion of the People"
When Dale and Theodore Rosengarten sent out the invitations to their son's bar mitzvah in 1993, their northern friends and family members barely concealed their surprise, according to Dale (Rosen) '69, Ph.D. '97. "How could we raise a good Jewish boy in a …
Issue: January-February 2003