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Using the Law for Good
As a child , Justice Sonia Sotomayor loved watching the television show Perry Mason . From the living room of her Bronx public housing apartment, the future Supreme Court associate justice was enraptured by the lead fictional lawyer. “In the first half of …
The Context: Arthur C. Brooks on “Revenge Bedtime Procrastination”
This is the fourth post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival stories—offering our readers a useful background to some of the most important subjects in the news today. We hope you enjoy it. Sleep is good , but a lot of people don’t get enough …
How Myth and Memoir Intertwine
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 was puzzled in January 1999 when she showed up on the first day of her creative-writing seminar, “Weaving an Autobiography.” “It was all women in their 60s, 70s, 80s—and the teacher was 95,” she remembers. McKetta, a …
Issue: November-December 2021
Strategy—and a Celebration
Broadly Speaking, the Harvard governance reforms unveiled in December 2010 had three purposes. Foremost was strengthening the Corporation’s fiduciary oversight of the University, in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial meltdown and prior missteps in …
Issue: September-October 2022
HAA Clubs Committee Awards
The HAA Clubs Committee presents two annual awards for contributions to Harvard clubs. Recipients of the 2005 Outstanding Club Contribution Award are: William D. (“Dren”) Geer Jr. ’56, of Sarasota, Florida. Geer has been active on the Harvard Club of …
Issue: March-April 2006
Brevia
Commencement Closer Turning from national and international leaders and celebrities (Michael R. Bloomberg, M.B.A. ’66, LL.D. ’14, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, M.P.A. ’71, LL.D. ’11, Oprah Winfrey, LL.D. ’13), the University has gone local. Deval L. Patrick ’78, …
Issue: May-June 2015
Endowment Exposure to Fossil-Fuel Production Less than Two Percent of Assets
Some 10 months after the University announced its 2050 “net-zero” goal for greenhouse-gas emissions associated with investments held in the endowment —timed for the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day last April—Harvard Management Company (HMC) this …
Economist Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has conferred the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences on Lee professor of economics Claudia Goldin. She was honored for “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labor market outcomes” according to the …
Silvana Gómez’s Undergraduate English Address
Creating–Not Accepting–Our New Normal The morning of my first day of kindergarten, I woke up ready to take on the day. At five years old, this was the start of a new life, with new routines, new friends. A new me. After choosing the perfect first day of …
Harvard Medalists
Recipients of the 2024 Harvard Medal were honored in person during Harvard Alumni Day on May 31. Scott A. Abell ’72, a University alumni leader for more than 30 years, served as president of the Board of Overseers (and member from 2012 to 2018), …
Issue: July-August 2024
Peabody Museum Removes Native American Funerary Objects
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has begun removing Native American funerary objects from its exhibits, after federal regulations went into effect earlier this month barring museums from displaying the sacred cultural items without …
Oh, Happy Day
On Commencement day they usher elderly alumni into the Tree Spread, point out empty seats to parents with their wooden batons, and beam festively at all and sundry. They are part of the venerable Committee for the Happy Observance of Commencement, which …
Issue: May-June 2006
Harvard Endowment Valued at $41.9 Billion, Up 2.4 Percent
Highlights for fiscal 2020: •The endowment’s value was $41.9 billion as of this past June 30, the end of fiscal year 2020—an increase of $1.0 billion (2.4 percent) from $40.9 billion a year earlier . •Harvard Management Company (HMC) recorded a 7.3 …
Former Crimson Star Spearheads New Soccer League
For a child raised in the United States, Charles Altchek ’07 had an unusually soccer-focused upbringing. The son of a French mother, he spent his summers playing soccer in France and attended French American school in Westchester County, New York, where …
Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Nicholas Stephanopoulos was a second-year law student at Yale when the Supreme Court ruled—unsatisfactorily, he believed—on the 2004 Pennsylvania gerrymandering case Vieth v. Jubelirer . Splitting 5-4, the justices upheld the state’s partisan …
Issue: September-October 2021