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Auden and the Little Things
… We must love one another or die. This line appears near the end of W.H. Auden's poem "September First, 1939 . " Perhaps … heard it by now; it was widely circulated in the wake of September Eleventh, 2001. It was alarmingly prescient: …
Issue: July-August 2003
The Man in the Top Hat
… One of my favorite parts of Commencement is the tall man in the top hat. For many who attend Harvard’s graduation, the …
Graduate School of Education Launches $250-Million Campaign
… On the crisp autumn Friday of September 19, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) canceled classes and closed off Appian … and experimentation in an effort to effect a nationwide rise in excellence and equity outcomes. His initial …
Barack Obama of Harvard Law School—and Beyond
… Law School, Barack Obama, J.D. '91, now president-elect of the United States, also came to the attention of the wider University community. In 1990, he was elected …
Diagnosis by Fiction
… In 1968 , Stephen Bergman ’66, M.D. ’73, was driving through the desert in Morocco on a dead-straight road. At one point, he noticed the sun going down directly in front of him while the moon was rising behind. “I had never seen … anything like that on Earth,” he recalls. The sunset/moonrise moment seemed an epiphany, “a sign,” he says, that the …
Issue: March-April 2024
Off the Shelf
… Inside the Hot Zone, by Mark G. Kortepeter ’83, M.P.H. ’95 (Potomac Books/University of Nebraska, $34.95). Now a public-health professor at the … at Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet/Google analytics enterprise—a Rhodes Scholar, and former dean of the University of …
Issue: May-June 2020
A “Declaration of Love and Guts”
… holding cartoonish blue firearms. He’s dressed in a mash up of what looks like U.S. cavalry pants, Plains Indian and … a riotous purple, polka-dotted background. Like many of the 30 color-splashed paintings in “T.C. Cannon: At the Edge … influenced the New Indian Art movement, and then surprised those he knew by joining the U.S. Army, ultimately …
Issue: May-June 2018
Global Reach
… Sujiatuo township , 30 kilometers northwest of central Beijing, lies directly in the path of the swiftest, most massive urbanization in human history. As incomes rise and tens of millions of people migrate from China’s …
Issue: May-June 2010
The Omicron Semester
… During the week after Thanksgiving break, when Harvard’s campus was fully populated with students, professors, and staff, the University logged 140 cases of coronavirus; but during an early-January week with far …
Off the Shelf
… Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self, by Gish Jen ’77, BI ’87, RI ’02 … and individual experience—and the Eastern narrative of her ancestry, grounded in morality and the recurrent … case anyone is listening. Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel, by Philip F. Gura ’72, Ph.D. ’77 …
Issue: March-April 2013
Harvard Endowment Increases Modestly to $37.1 Billion During Early Stages of Overhaul
… Performance highlights for fiscal 2017: •The endowment’s value stood at $37.1 billion as of June 30, the end of fiscal year 2017, an increase of $1.4 … and the HMC board of directors. Outsiders may be surprised by the scope of the operating changes he reported: The …
Your Take: Asking Questions Outside the Classroom
… In the May-June issue, Undergraduate columnist Madeleine … are few opportunities. Were conversations about the meaning of life part of your Harvard experience? Do you think Harvard should do …
A Revolution in Corporate Reporting
… Gary Kelly, CEO of Southwest Airlines, is famous for saying, “I want one version of the truth.” The philosophy behind this simple statement …
Issue: March-April 2011
Conflicts of Interest, Revisited
… its policies governing faculty members’ financial conflicts of interest and commitment (COI). This is the first such comprehensive revision since 2004 (see … public confidence in the integrity of the scientific enterprise”—no minor feat given heightened public concern over …
Issue: September-October 2010
From the Archives: The Talent for Aging Well
… burdensome, especially for those who are fortunate, since the 2017 round of tax cuts. Aging has become inevitable, too … exceptionally high intelligence. (The three projects comprise the Study of Adult Development, which Vaillant directs, …