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Inside the “War on Drugs”
… Since President Nixon coined the phrase “the war on drugs” in 1970, more than $1 trillion … spent on more than 45 million drug arrests. Yet the rate of drug use in the United States remains unchanged. That’s one pair of statistics filmmaker Eugene Jarecki ( Why We Fight ) …
Labor Litigator
… overtime, she asserted, depends on a straightforward set of legal tests, including how much time workers spend on … management relative to non-management tasks, and how much they earn relative to non-exempt employees. Her clients, 25 … managers, had reported performing significant amounts of manual labor—unloading merchandise from trucks, stocking …
Issue: March-April 2017
Video Clips: Children of Invention
… View the trailer for the 2009 independent feature film Children of Invention, whose producer, Mynette Louie ’97, discusses independent cinema in the current issue of Harvard Magazine. …
Off the Shelf
… Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America, by John F. Kasson '66 (Hill and Wang, $26). Professor of history and American studies at the University of …
Issue: November-December 2001
The Body, Revealed
… One of the most consequential and beautiful medical books ever … Andreas Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica (“On the fabric of the human body”) revolutionized the science and the …
Issue: September-October 2005
The Unruly Academy
… L. Rudenstine, Ph.D. ’64, a “recently minted assistant professor,” found himself walking by Mallinckrodt Hall, where a crowd of students had blocked the entry to impede the work of a Dow Chemical Company … of a piece with his worldview and character. It is no surprise that he mounts a vigorous, ringing reaffirmation of …
Issue: March-April 2025
Greener Than Grass
… For alternatives to the idealized, traditional lawn, try these options. Fescues. Closely related to ryegrass, fescues often come mixed into lawn grass seed bags, but can be … planned to grow their own food in 2009 than in 2008, a rise of 19 percent. (See, as one example, the Edible Estates …
Issue: March-April 2011
The Stadium, Returfed
… Record it for the history books: the last of 646 football games played on … since 1903 is over and gone—the Crimson’s 29-3 rout of Pennsylvania on November 12, 2005. This summer, crews are …
Issue: July-August 2006
Take Care of Each Other
… My child, you’ve grown, you look so much like your father, do you remember me? At Harvard, many of my undergraduate African friends say similar things about … and African undergraduates were disappointed, but not surprised. This is America—even if filtered through Harvard. A …
Issue: September-October 2018
“The Truth Shall Set You Free”
… The Graduate School of Education’s Convocation ceremony on … Silvanus Wilson Jr., M.T.S. ’81, Ed.M. ’82, Ed.D. ’85, on the topic of freedom, from its deep connections to education, to the …
The Law School and the Law
… Rest assured, Harvard Law School is still teaching the law by the Socratic method--even over the Internet. … "I've just started this privacy course," Bromley professor of law Arthur R. Miller, LL.B. '58, explained last … Crits. But the reality is that the pressures of free enterprise, particularly from the creation of global markets, were …
Engineering in the Twenty-First Century
… I’m a science-fiction fan. One of my favorite authors, China Miéville, says, “Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas …
Issue: September-October 2011
A Scholar in the House
… Tradition and the twenty-first century were tangled together in Barker Center’s Thompson Room on the afternoon of February 11, when Drew Gilpin Faust conducted her first … in 1997. A thicket of television cameras filled the risers erected for the occasion, attesting to worldwide …
Issue: July-August 2007
The Talk, 2023
… “Get Out of Your Own Way” Imparting life lessons to the seniors in his final baccalaureate address, on May 23, … as a student helped me understand that there are many ways of knowing and understanding the world beyond the study of …
Issue: July-August 2023
A Middling Year
… (HMC) reported a 6.5 percent return on endowment assets for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019. The endowment’s value … (4.3 percent) from $39.2 billion a year earlier. In a year of more modest results for most university endowments (see … its report, the factors contributing to the 4.3 percent rise in the endowment’s value cannot be known precisely. But …
Issue: November-December 2019