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The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage, by Jonathan Cohn ’91 (St. Martin’s, $29.99). A veteran health-care reporter recounts the making of the Affordable Care Act. The value lies less in each detail than in recalling …
Issue: May-June 2021
Commencement and Alumni Events
Commencement week includes addresses by interim president Alan M. Garber and journalist and leading free-press advocate Maria Ressa, co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. See harvardmagazine.com/commencement for updates. For general information, …
Issue: May-June 2024
Diagnosing the “Skills Gap”
The problem : There’s a “skills gap” in the American workforce. Employers searching for skilled candidates can’t find them—even as candidates applying to hundreds of jobs can’t get hired. The diagnosis: an underperforming partnership between community …
Harvard Discloses Leaders’ Compensation
The University today released its tax return for nonprofit organizations (Form 990) for 2015 (covering the tax year from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016— Harvard’s fiscal year 2016 ). As is its practice, Harvard has simultaneously disseminated information …
The Context: Simpsons Writer John Swartzwelder on Comedy
This is the second post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival stories—offering our readers a useful background to some of the most important (or most fun!) subjects in the news today. We hope you enjoy it. John Swartzwelder is not a household …
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A Synthesizing Mind, by Howard Gardner, research professor on education (MIT, $29.95). In this memoir, the creator of multiple-intelligences theory—and one of the longest-running members of the Harvard community—turns his wide-ranging curiosity on his own …
Issue: September-October 2020
The Medical Civil Rights Act
In 2015, Robert Dluhy ’62, a physician at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, watched in horror with much of the country as the story of 25-year-old Freddie Gray unfolded on national television. Gray, a black man, had been …
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Athletics Angles Anent the letter in the March-April issue about football : should Harvard not take the lead in banning this dangerous sport? There is compelling evidence of lasting—and potentially lethal (suicide)—psychological/neurological adverse …
Issue: May-June 2015
Harvard Responds to Violence in Israel
Saturday morning , militants from the terrorist group Hamas stormed into Israel by foot, air, and sea. During the surprise attack launched from Gaza, Hamas killed more than 900 Israeli citizens, wounded 2,600, and captured more than 100, according to …
Stellar Seniors
Each year, Harvard College grants degrees to some 1,600 students, each of whom possesses gifts and abilities that count in the wider world. The following profiles offer merely a sample of this year’s seniors, who—in the words of classmate Kwame …
Issue: May-June 2006
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Harvard, Hamas, and Israel My reaction to President Gay’s video message to alumni, clarifying Harvard’s position on the terrorist attacks in Israel: Is it really so difficult to utter the words: “We support Israel in its attempt to defend itself from …
Issue: January-February 2024
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Speakers of Note The speaker at the Commencement afternoon exercises, on May 25, will be Mark Zuckerberg ’06, co-founder and CEO of Facebook. His appearance among the honorands and at the lectern follows by a decade that of Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. …
Issue: May-June 2017
Shaun Donovan Joins Allston Staff
HARVARD ANNOUNCED today that Shaun Donovan ’87, M.Arch.-M.P.A. ’95, will serve as part-time “senior strategist and advisor to the president on Allston and campus development.” Donovan was director of the White House Office of Management and Budget from …
Overseers Election Update: Voting Postponed
Updated March 31, 2020 . This news announcement updates yesterday’s post about the election and various endorsements of candidates, from both the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee slates and the Overseer petition candidates …
Harvard’s Historic Building Boom
John Harvard , general contractor, was flat-out this summer—in all seriousness, perhaps the University’s busiest building season. Marquee projects include assembling the future home of much of the engineering and applied sciences faculty (shown above). …
Issue: September-October 2017