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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
Driving Birds Away
… you would avoid laying your eggs within three-quarters of a mile of either side of a busy four-lane highway that runs by Thoreau’s … That noise—not exhaust stink or the sight of speeding machines—apparently creates the broad avoidance zone on …
Issue: May-June 2005
Ranking Extinctions by Ecological Impact
… During the last 500 million years, the fossil record shows, the ecology of life on Earth has been disrupted and irrevocably altered … relevant,” Knoll says, because what happened then—a rapid rise of CO 2 , ocean acidification, warmth, and loss of …
Issue: September-October 2018
Scholars Advocate “Managed Retreat”—Before Climate Change Sinks Coastlines
… As the climate changes and seas rise on coastal communities … world, the best option for some will be to flee. The idea of having to move people and communities away from the …
The Empty Seat
… For as long as I can remember, there has been a man sitting next to me in Row 00 of Section 28 at the Harvard Stadium: Robert D. Hall, class … public transportation was available. Despite occasional surprises—like the return train to Boston from a Penn game …
Issue: September-October 2003
Diagnosis by Fiction
… In 1968 , Stephen Bergman ’66, M.D. ’73, was driving through the desert in Morocco on a dead-straight road. At one point, he noticed the sun going down directly in front of him while the moon was rising behind. “I had never seen … anything like that on Earth,” he recalls. The sunset/moonrise moment seemed an epiphany, “a sign,” he says, that the …
Issue: March-April 2024
Where the Bones Are
… Documentary accounts of the historic past seldom capture the flavor of daily life hundreds of years ago. But broken pipestems, …
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
From Lewis and Clark to Michael Brown
… F erguson, Missouri, the suburb north of St. Louis where 18-year-old Michael … an outhouse. And when it rains, and the water begins to rise, the sewage follows the water, out into the drainage …
Issue: May-June 2020
Radio Wits
… witty guests, well versed on current events. Lots of laughs: the wisecracking atmosphere’s slightly competitive, though … Prairie Home Companion starts and enlists them in the enterprise.” At its best, the Wait, Wait… enterprise is very …
Issue: January-February 2010
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
Memories of Ted Kennedy
… In memory of Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54, LL.D. ’08, Harvard Magazine offers a glimpse of the man in action, debating then Defense Secretary Caspar W. …
“The Roosevelts,” and Harvard
… The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, a new miniseries by Ken … wife. Using a biographical format, the films relate much of the history of the twentieth century through a Roosevelt-tinted lens. …
The Sweetest Thing
… In the mid 1980s, Ram Sasisekharan, Ph.D. '92, turned to tennis to ease the pressure of his intensive graduate studies in biophysics. His search … especially about their mutual interest in the structures of carbohydrates . Eventually, Sasisekharan turned those …
Issue: November-December 2003
The Case for Universities
… In a June 30 address to the Royal Irish Academy at Trinity College, Dublin, where … with alumni) , President Drew Faust reemphasized her vision of the place of research universities “in a changing and … both social and individual, she said—so it comes as no surprise that students and faculty members are increasingly …