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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
Extracurriculars
Seasonal The Game • November 19 at noon The 128th gridiron competition against Yale takes place in New Haven this year. www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/index Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society Christmas Concert • December 3 at 8 p.m. …
Issue: November-December 2011
Writing Crime into Race
“You should have a record.” That sentence dropped like a hammer inside the meeting room where Khalil Gibran Muhammad, then 21 years old, was sitting across the table from a Philadelphia police-union lawyer, answering questions about the day he’d briefly …
Issue: July-August 2018
Words to Live By
The graduates heard in multiple ways how they might lead their lives. Herewith, four samples. Full texts and audio and video recordings of these and other Commencement week speeches are available at harvardmag.com/commencement-2011 . “Finish Your Own …
Issue: July-August 2011
Fathoming Metabolism
A thimbleful of your blood. To Robert Gerszten, that’s like a window on your well-being. In some cases, it may even let him see into the future of your health. Gerszten and his colleague Greg Lewis work at the leading edge of an emerging new …
Issue: May-June 2011
Radcliffe Ramps Up
Things are different at Fay House. As the academic year begins, Drew Gilpin Faust, the Civil War historian who is the first dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RI), has made sweeping changes in programs and personnel, including a series of …
Issue: September-October 2001
Science and Politics and Stem Cells
Scientists became alarmed this spring when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) canceled a meeting to review applications for federally funded stem-cell research. Stem cells are considered the most promising area of research for treating many human …
Books behind Bars
An “earnest Yeshiva boy,” Avi Steinberg ’02 never thought he’d spend his days in prison. But in 2005, when offered the post of librarian at the Suffolk County House of Correction in Boston, he took it, glad to trade writing obituaries for the Boston Globe …
Issue: January-February 2011
The Mating Game
Each year Harvard students and prospective employers begin a complicated rite of courtship, complete with flirting (invitations), wooing (interviews), and proposals (offers). There is even a matchmaker, the Office of Career Services (OCS), making sure …
"Habits Are Values in Disguise": The Phi Beta Kappa Exercises
The Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises, held the Tuesday morning of each Commencement week in Sanders Theatre, are in a way the most intellectual and cultural of the graduation events, complete with poems, song, and a history-laden oration (see program ). …
President Drew Gilpin Faust's Report to the Alumni
President Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard’s 28th president, delivers her Report to the Alumni at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. Distinguished guests, graduates and your families, alumni and alumnae, colleagues and friends – witches, …
Storybook Ending
Rebounding from a rocky start, the football team defeated its first six Ivy League opponents and scripted a stunning finale by routing a previously unbeaten Yale squad, 37-6. The Yale Bowl upset dashed Old Eli’s hopes of completing a perfect season, and …
Issue: January-February 2008