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Taking Stock of Celebrity
… For Anita Elberse, whose latest research investigates the impact of big-name stars on films’ revenues, pop culture and … in fact, she predicts movie megastars’ fortunes will only rise. ~ Elizabeth Gudrais … 121 … For Anita Elberse, whose …
Issue: January-February 2008
The Eviction of the Bow & Arrow Press
… Since 1978, in a quiet corner of Adams House, a small studio founded by students has made … printing presses and type for anyone wishing to learn the venerable art of letterpress printing. Its location at the intersection of …
Mitrovica Named a MacArthur Fellow
… Baird professor of science Jerry X. Mitrovica, a geophysicist, has … named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow. Mitrovica is a pioneer of the field known as dynamic topography, which tracks the rise and fall of the earth’s crust across timespans ranging …
The Science of Happiness
… This doesn’t feel like a normal academic conference. True, the three-day Positive Psychology Summit is a sellout, with … at breaks, and the conference’s organizer, Shane Lopez of the University of Kansas, walks around smiling and … they had to do. “In our time, depression is on the rise,” Ben-Shahar says. “More and more students experience …
Issue: January-February 2007
Curiosities: The Art of Childhood
… bundled in winter hats and coats, blissfully asleep under the protective arm of a caregiver. It’s a domestic scene laid bare in public: a reflection of children’s trusting innocence amid a subterranean journey …
Issue: November-December 2022
"The Gates of Paradise"
… The main baptistery doors of the Duomo in Florence, created by Lorenzo Ghiberti between … Michelangelo himself declared them “worthy to be the gates of Paradise.” Each bronze door stands 16 feet high, weighs …
Issue: March-April 2007
Women of the Year
… Concluding the year in which Harvard transitioned from its first woman president to its twenty-eighth man to hold the office, the University showcased a dazzling array of female … month when several states (including some with unaddressed crises in maternal health and infant mortality) acted to …
Issue: July-August 2019
That Championship Season
… The Harvard Rugby Football Club team is not like any other … seasonal pig roasts, a tribal retreat evoking both the Lord of the Flies and Animal House . Self-governed, they operate with a kind of punk-rock anarchistic do-it-yourself edginess that even …
Voting into Vapor
… Fully electronic systems will record about one-third of the votes cast this November. But "Until and unless everyone … answer." In an electronic election, an NP-complete problem arises when one asks if the computer software has been …
Issue: November-December 2004
Sarah Whiting Named Dean of Graduate School of Design
… Sarah Whiting, dean of the Rice University School of Architecture, has been named dean of the Harvard Graduate …
The Evolution of Abraham
… We first meet Abraham in Genesis 11. Abraham, a descendant of Noah through his son Shem, lived with his family in the city of Ur in Chaldea (today's Iraq). Having left Ur with his …
Issue: January-February 2004
The End of Shopping Week
… During their last regular meeting of the academic year, on May 3, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted by a 3:2 margin to replace …
The Art of Protest
… Before you get to any of the poems in Clint Smith’s new book, Counting Descent —some … me that art and protest would be separate,” he says. “Part of what it means to be an artist is to imagine the world as …
Issue: January-February 2017
The Medicalization of Torture
… The revelations of torture and prisoner abuse at the Abu … expect doctors to be involved primarily in a healing enterprise, helping other human beings." Lifton, who alerted the … Ghraib, he notes that "atrocity-producing situations" can arise whenever certain conditions crop up. "Most of the Nazi …
Issue: November-December 2004
The Events of the Week
… The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, … year include a Harvard College Class Day speech by chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Ben S. Bernanke ’75 and …
Issue: May-June 2008