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How Does Hate Spread?
… In the months following Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel and … response in Gaza, American Jews and Muslims have endured a rise in hatred. In the two months after October 7, the … not new phenomena. On May 1, Harvard convened four scholars of antisemitism and Islamophobia whose research began long …
How to Care for Your Grandfather's Teddy Bear
… Harvard offers a new on-line resource for anyone who has stuff worth … of one's wedding; or those fading newspaper accounts of the embezzler ancestor who fled to Canada to dig for gold … in attics or basements, or near water sources like washing machines or bathrooms. Think about what's in the room above …
Issue: September-October 2003
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
The Stable Door
… In the era of the robbery, night watchmen at the Fogg and the campus … A guy wants a painting up on the wall that says, 'In Memory of Dear Mother Mabel'; he doesn't want his money to go to a …
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
Reconfiguring the Curriculum
… Much work on refashioning the undergraduate curriculum remains for the next academic year, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) concluded its spring meetings by … their concentrations, and new options for minor fields of study, encouraging them to investigate diverse …
Issue: July-August 2006
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 …
Devoted to Debt
… In the first quarter of 2011, the average American household carried $115,000 of mortgage, credit-card, and other forms of debt—a huge … “is America, and we can choose together to submit to it, or rise to its challenges, making what we will of its …
Issue: July-August 2011
Stealing the Catalog along with the Coins
… "Incredible as it seems to the uninitiated, there was no overall inventory of the University coins," wrote Professor George M.A. Hanfmann in an August 1974 report to …
The Pay Problem
… Concerns about the compensation of chief executive officers and other top … their immediate subordinates. Finally, it is clear that the rise in executive pay contributes to the skewing of income …
Issue: May-June 2010
Vote Now
… choose five new Harvard Overseers and six new directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. Ballots should … are announced at the HAA’s annual meeting, on the afternoon of Commencement day, June 4. All Harvard degree-holders, … and communications, IBM Centennial, International Business Machines Corporation. John Trasvina ’80, Los Angeles. …
Issue: March-April 2009
The Family Silver
… One could call these ceremonial spoons the “family silver of Northwest … says Bill Holm, curator emeritus at the Burke Museum of Indian Art in Seattle. “Our families’ histories are …
Issue: July-August 2007
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