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The Best of Times…
… Harvard’s annual financial report, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2016 (released in late October), was full of good tidings: operating revenue up 5.6 percent (more than … For the current year, that distribution is budgeted to rise 4 percent—before being held to no growth in fiscal …
Issue: January-February 2017
The Price of Parity
… The data—or at least some data—are now in on the effects of Harvard's new Wage and Benefits Parity Policy (WBPP) for … fraction of wage and benefit costs attributable to the WBPP rises steadily from the 2002 fiscal year's $2 million to …
Issue: July-August 2003
On the Origins of the Arts
… Dear Reader: The text excerpted here was posted with permission of W.W. Norton, but that permission has since expired and … the text has been taken down. Read a Harvard Magazine profile of E.O. Wilson here . Thank you for visiting. … …
Issue: May-June 2012
The Seductions of Snooping
… gadgets from a James Bond movie were real-life instruments of espionage used by the Stasi—communist East Germany’s Ministry for State … about these devices and much more in her exploration of the Stasi archives, which were gradually declassified and …
Issue: July-August 2008
“The Excitement of Science”
… In the fall of 2003, Juliet Girard ’07 arrived at Harvard with … where she acquired a taste for the rhythms and methods of research. She thought she’d like to sustain this … the concentration he directs. “Other faculty were surprised by how open and not turf-oriented Rich was and is,” …
Issue: July-August 2006
Powers of the Pitch
… Deep into the second half of the NCAA soccer playoff game against SUNY Binghamton last fall, with the score …
Issue: September-October 2007
The End of Blackness?
… "Blackness has been shrugged off by the force of events," says Debra Dickerson, J.D. '95. "Things are not …
Issue: May-June 2004
The State of Civil Rights
… During a conversation Thursday evening in Sanders Theatre that ranged from memories of civil rights marches to police violence and current … health, and the inaction of powerful institutions amid crises of injustice, King returned to his father’s words, and …
As Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rises, Nutrient Content of Rice Falls
… Rising levels of atmospheric CO 2 don’t just warm the planet, they lower the levels of beneficial vitamins and … CO2 … 1514 … 8465 … 1516 … As Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rises, Nutrient Content of Rice Falls … article …
The Context: Resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth
… This is the tenth post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival stories—offering our readers a useful background … reorganization. Its organisms are built to be biological machines, with DNA and proteins standing in for circuit …
“The Work of the Public Health Leader Is the Work of the Herdsman”
… Long before starting his current role at the World Bank, which now includes helping coordinate the … coronavirus pandemic, Doctor Muhammad Ali Pate grew up one of 10 children in a family of herdsmen in Nigeria—what “might seem like an unusual …
The Children of Noah
… Hugh Broughton (1549-1612), an English theologian and Hebraist, brought out his first book, A Concent of Scripture, in 1588. “Concent” means “harmony,” and … Broughton laid out what he claimed was a correct chronology of biblical events, harmonizing jarring passages in the …
Issue: November-December 2008
Mitigating Global Threats
… Amid leadership crises across Europe and mounting economic and defense … Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, M.P.A. ’97, is on the front lines of diplomacy, working with allies to do “everything we can …
Issue: March-April 2025
“He Found Himself at a Loss”
… For the DeSanctis family, medicine had always been a way of … Moroccan rugs arriving at DeSanctis’s home one day as a surprise thank-you for the doctor’s care. A Harvard Medical …
From the Archives: Unequal Incomes
… In an era of widening income inequality—with all it implies for … Freeman’s prescient, and still very pertinent, overview of the problems and challenges. His more recent essay for the … and professional athletes, to name the most prominent--have risen rapidly, while the earnings of the majority of the …