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Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86
… Barack Obama has selected Arne Duncan '86 as his Secretary of Education, the New York Times reported . Duncan became superintendent of Chicago's schools in 2001, and has been credited with …
The 350th Leadership
… semisaecularia septima occasion,* but little was made of that, and all the traditional revelries and ceremonial benedictions … 1774 to 1780 Harvard suspended public Commencements because of revolutionary upheavals. Rounded up at Loeb House on June …
Beyond the Baguette: A Guide to the Regional Food of France
… After millennia of neighborly skirmishes and bloody borderland disputes, … But within this single country remains residual evidence of countless former kingdoms and regions that continue to boast their own distinct heritage—especially when it comes to …
Deconstructing the College Deanship
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean William C. Kirby is creating a new … undergraduate life at Harvard. He expects to "reorganize the offices of the dean of undergraduate education and the dean …
Issue: May-June 2003
Xiao-Li Meng Appointed Dean of Harvard’s Graduate School
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith today announced that Jones professor of statistics Xiao-Li Meng , chair of the department of statistics since 2004, has been appointed …
Over the Moon
… The rock itself is tiny, but it has caused much excitement. … inch wide and half an inch tall, and an inconspicuous shade of dark grey, it certainly appears less interesting than the … just a few feet away from it. But it’s not the aesthetics of the rock that have caused all the excitement. It’s where …
Altering Course
… Of the nearly 100 quadrillion British thermal units of energy (BTUs) used each year in the United …
Issue: May-June 2015
Graduate School of Design
… provisions from Redbones and ice cream, at 1 p.m. in the portico rooms. Class photos will be taken on Wednesday, May 26, in Piper, followed by a rehearsal of the GSD ceremony in the studio trays. The schedule, by … Planning and Design 3 p.m. Master in Design Studies/Doctor of Design Denise Scott Brown, principal of Venturi, Scott …
Off the Shelf
… Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff , by Rosemary Mahoney … Mahoney’s book is hard to put down both because of the stickiness of a woman rowing the Nile, alone, and because of the …
Issue: July-August 2007
Shards in the City
… Urban archaeologists peel back the concrete skins of modern cities in search of the material remains of the past. The task challenges …
Issue: November-December 2001
Mercury on the Brain
… The pregnant women did not worry about their food. They simply ate it: chunks of fresh whale meat and pounds of fish. They ate it because they were hungry. They ate it …
Issue: May-June 2004
Be Willing to Fail, Faust Tells Class of 2015
… In a Freshman Convocation with a twist, the class of 2015 was welcomed by President Drew Faust, dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds, and others, and then …
Doris Salcedo Gives Form to Tragedy
… Last month , Doris Salcedo returned to the Plaza de Bolívar in Bogotá, the center of Colombia’s public life and host to some of her most … to Colombia coincided with a wave of violence, and the rise of additional factions: narco-traffickers and …
The Basics
… Much of my writing since last spring has been devoted to the great challenges of the day: an extraordinary public … and the Harvard Corporation. The individuals who comprise these groups bring with them extraordinary experience …
Issue: May-June 2021
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