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Experimental Magic
… It’s not the sabbath, but something is going on inside St. Anne & the … from a tarp. Beneath the stained-glass windows, in place of an altar there’s 29-year-old experimental jazz composer … movie switching from slow-motion to regular speed. It gives rise to spontaneous musical events, like the delicate ending …
Issue: March-April 2022
Off the Shelf
… by Katie Ives ’99 (Mountaineers Books, $26.95). Riffing on the infamous Riesenstein Hoax (about an unscaleable, indeed imaginary, set of peaks in British Columbia), and drawing on her … won’t be a snap of the fingers, insofar as private enterprises are significant actors, as Ari Ezra Waldman ’02, J.D. …
Issue: January-February 2022
News from the HAA
… As classes resumed in Cambridge, alumni on both sides of the Atlantic were gearing up for the "Harvard in Europe" … London. The event, to be held November 14 and 15, is part of the Harvard Alumni Association's Global Series. President …
Issue: November-December 2003
Dialed In
… “A lot of writing from abroad has this kind of ‘eat your vegetables’ feel. Like, ‘ Here Are the Five Things You Need to Know About China Today.’ And … one,” she says, from climate change and inequality to the rise of the far right. “English-language media was really …
Issue: September-October 2023
Reinventing the Classroom
… At a time of rising interest in new forms of teaching to effect greater learning, Harvard Magazine … a new course, and what he learned from teaching it. ~The Editors Computer science is booming at Harvard (and …
Issue: September-October 2012
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
The Happiness Revolutionary
… in February 2020, President Donald Trump sat on one side of the dais and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the other. In the … says Brooks, former president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a center-right Washington think tank. …
Issue: January-February 2023
Life on the Culinary Edge
… Jeffrey L. Steingarten switched careers in 1989, leaving the profession of law to join Vogue magazine as its resident food critic, …
Issue: January-February 2003
And the Winners Are...
… The names of the newly elected members of the Board of Overseers and …
Issue: July-August 2008
David Cutler: Can the U.S. Healthcare System Be Fixed?
… No country in the world spends more on health care than the United States, … nations, but consistently ranks near the bottom on measures of population wellness and life expectancy. Is there a … What is the breaking point? How much can costs continue to rise? David Cutler : It's a very good question. There's no …
Harvard on the Rocks
… Away from the dancing and music in the common room, past the keg of beer in the crowded bathroom, and down the dark hallway, … the University's stricter alcohol policy and a resultant rise in "closet" drinking? Schwab says it's hard to tell. …
Seeing the Field
… Field hockey, though relatively unknown in the United States, is a global game, and Francine Polet … says Polet, “so distributing the ball has always been one of the things I feel is my strength.” She plays sweeper, the … a vital role on “short corners,” scoring chances that arise when the referee calls a minor foul near the net. Major …
Issue: November-December 2008
Fatherhood Affects Testosterone
… The New York Times published a page-one report on September … detailing a startling new scientific discovery : the level of testosterone, the male hormone, declines after a man … parenting behavior in a way that is conducive to nurturing offspring. The Times reported that the research “suggests …
Off the Shelf
… Modern Liberty and the Limits of Government , by Charles Fried, Beneficial professor of law (Norton, $24.95). Fried assesses individual …
Issue: January-February 2007
Life: The Edited Version
… Scientists have made stunning progress in their ability to decode genomes; the past several years have … them in specific ways. Researchers led by George Church, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School , and Joe Jacobson, …
Issue: November-December 2011