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The Sweetest Season
… Harvard's 35-3 demolition of Yale at the Stadium on November 20 was the crowning moment in a football season of peak performances: a perfect 10-0 record; high-scoring …
Issue: January-February 2005
"Stories Are Powerful"
… The day would be about people and stories, not statistics … Harvard public-health scholar Mary T. Bassett at the start of Thursday’s summit on the opioid crisis. And it was. At … addiction with same-sex marriage, which has seen a dramatic rise in favorable opinion during the past few decades. “In …
Sticking to the Union
… New York City for 15 years, Greg Lichtenberg ’88 tolerates the cash-flow anxieties because of the clear lifestyle benefits: lots of control over his time (especially helpful for parenting), …
Issue: July-August 2010
Tighter Times
… Harvard is not immune to the vicissitudes of the economy. During the fiscal year … for FAS. Now that distributions from the endowment will rise only a percent or two for the foreseeable future, …
Issue: January-February 2003
Tale of a Hamptons Town and a Troubled Filmmaker
… The Boston Globe recently ran an insightful review of The Windmill Movie , a film about the life of Richard Rogers ’67, Ed.M. ’70. As the review notes, …
Epstein-Barr Virus Implicated as Cause of Multiple Sclerosis
… A team of researchers at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) say they have discovered circumstantial evidence showing that …
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
Off the Shelf
… Bury the Chains: Prophets, Slaves, and Rebels in the First Human … wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace" (a once-lost former captain of a slave ship) gathered in a London bookshop in 1787 to … chronicle, Hochschild characterizes them as the creators of the first grass-roots human-rights campaign—they …
Issue: January-February 2005
Diagnosing the “Skills Gap”
… The problem : There’s a “skills gap” in the American … can’t find them—even as candidates applying to hundreds of jobs can’t get hired. The diagnosis: an underperforming … Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work (MFW), a disconnect between educators and employers …
Harvard Square, the Novel
… to Cambridge, masters his studies, and succeeds—that’s the life story, at Twitter length, of André Aciman , Ph.D. ’88. An Egyptian Jew from a … and launched a doubly successful career: writer or editor of eight books of fiction, essays, and memoir, and …
Issue: July-August 2013
AI and Democracy
… History will look back on 2024 as the first AI election, said Shorenstein Center director … event, “ AI and its Implications for Democracy.” That sense of the historical moment pervaded the ensuing conversation … among participants, who stressed the unprecedented nature of current technological progress. Paul professor of the …
Aiming at Alcohol
… When the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard reported to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences last spring, it pointedly observed, … Happen?" March-April 1999, page 69). So it comes as no surprise that the present dean of the College, Benedict H. …
Issue: January-February 2004
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Details Initial Budget Cuts
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) today unveiled a … in cost-saving measures it is implementing now and in the fiscal year beginning July 1: … do not address what he then called the larger "reshaping" of how the faculty performs its core academic mission to …
A Science Is Born
… Thirty veterans of Harvard’s Aiken Computation Lab reunited on January 19 , … world. Rip van Winkles who had never fallen asleep, we gathered to make sense of what had evolved from our experience … codes programmers wrote could be executed on real machines. And logicians had for decades studied the limits …
Issue: September-October 2020
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 …