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The Actor Explores
… In Moscow there are 200 theaters, and the drama students from … who study there can see plays every night in the company of impassioned audiences. “The theaters there are packed, ” … who in June completed the singular program in theater arts offered by the Harvard-affiliated American Repertory Theatre …
Issue: November-December 2007
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 Bible and the Almanac
… On the day of his subject's ninetieth birthday, May 3, Alec Wilkinson's The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger (of the College class of 1940) will be …
Issue: May-June 2009
The Coronavirus Campus
… As Harvard leaders— and their higher-education peers nationwide—make early-summer … guidance. The Great Recession and after were financial crises, highlighted by the collapsing value of the endowment, and resolved in time by belt-tightening, …
Issue: July-August 2020
Tupperware: The Movie
… Filmmakers have so delighted in debunking the idyllic myth of 1950s America that exposing the era's … with scandal and intrigue. Now a new documentary, bereft of salaciousness but chock-full of drama, reveals the …
Issue: September-October 2003
Fond Farewell
… In 1966, John T. Bethell ’54 became the editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin … in 1995, I was privileged to inherit a much larger enterprise committed to serving an engaged readership of …
Issue: May-June 2025
The Campaign Computes
… As it proceeded during the fall semester, The Harvard Campaign featured a … gift (computer sciences); and interesting evidence of the effects ofsmaller-scale philanthropy across the … scarcer. Hence the emphasis on securing the research enterprise through the campaign. Innovation: $50 million. Under …
Issue: January-February 2015
Harvard Unveils Plans for Science and Engineering Center
… University officials have now released designs for the long-anticipated Harvard John A. Paulson School of … expected to be completed in 2020. The complex—which will rise on the foundation left behind in 2010 when construction …
The $16-Trillion Virus
… The final tally of economic damage caused by SARS-CoV-2 will have to wait for the pandemic’s end, but in the meantime, two eminent … cost in the United States alone at $16 trillion. Eckstein professor of applied economics David Cutler, an expert on …
Save the Date
… “From the Closet to a Place at the Table: Celebrating 25 Years of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus” is the first-ever … the Closet to a Place at the Table: Celebrating 25 Years of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus” is the first-ever …
Issue: July-August 2008
Off the Shelf
… The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, by David Nasaw … liberally with money, which he used to buy popularity. One of several old questions that Nasaw answers in this …
Reunion: The Musical
… Six years ago, at the class of 1961's thirty-fifth reunion, Phil Carl sang a … Price says, "and some people in the audience were surprised" at how directly the show tackled that "well-kept …
Issue: January-February 2002
Longer-lasting Harvardians
… In his foreward to the anniversary report of the class of 1954, class secretary … rates among Harvard College classes have been on the rise for almost a century, and we're at the leading edge," …
Issue: July-August 2004
Astonish Us, Class of 2018
… Monday afternoon, this year’s freshmen thronged outside their dormitories, greeted by nearly 400 alumni marshals … were charged with bearing its banner. When the bells of Memorial Church struck the hour, the students—teetering … .’” It was not only mathematicians who wanted to be surprised, she continued: “The great ballet master Diaghilev is …
The Educator
… contact with Neil Rudenstine has been in our mutual pursuit of a successful University Campaign, my first and still dominant impression is of an educator with a love for teaching who also has a … productive flair for administration. Our first meeting used the perspective I had gained as a long-term chair of the …