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LBJ and “All the Way”
… Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Robert Schenkkan’s All the Way, starring Emmy winner Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad as President Lyndon Johnson, has incited not … Theater (ART) production. (Rauch, artistic director of OSF, is one of the theater professionals featured in …
Ben Beach, Iron Man of the Boston Marathon
… The bombs that disrupted the Boston Marathon last April, … runners. Yet, behind the motto “Boston Strong,” the city of Boston and the marathon community itself determined to … and even reinvigorated. Take Ben Beach ’71. At the time of the explosions, Beach had run 21 miles of the …
Laying It On
… Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen , a traveling show at the Rose Art Museum, reveals her ardent experimentation. … and reveled in circles and serialized forms. Works of collaged strips of textiles—ripped, then re-sewn—are painted over. Some are …
Issue: March-April 2019
The Supreme Court Affirmative Action Rulings: An Analysis
… Caplan, a leading legal-affairs journalist, to analyze the Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action in college … almost half a century , race-conscious admissions have been of central importance to Harvard and other selective … LL.M. ’32, in his controlling opinion in the landmark case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke …
THE Game
… The Harvard-Yale football rivalry constitutes a seemingly … Corbett and Paul Simpson chronicle the two teams' campaigns of 2002, when a climactic Harvard victory left them … the narrative are flashbacks to notable contests of the past — among them the initial roundball game, …
Issue: November-December 2004
Better than the Bard
… Scott Miller ’86, the founder and artistic director of New Line Theatre in St. Louis, celebrates the innovation and adventurousness of musicals in his Strike Up the Band: A New History of …
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
The Green-Pea Memo
… Ph.D. ’58, JF ’58, is an acclaimed sociologist and scholar of higher education, at Berkeley and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. … role and structure.) His Reflections on the University of California (California, $45) would be an ideal gift for …
Issue: May-June 2010
Psychedelics for Healing
… drugs, once considered primarily recreational, are making their way into clinical settings—and increasingly, helping patients with a range of conditions. Last fall, Harvard launched the Study of … back to the early 20th century, despite their cultural rise in the 1960s, as Jerrold Rosenbaum, Stanley Cobb …
Beyond the Core
… The Task Force on General Education (TFGE), commissioned … last spring, has issued a preliminary report to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), for discussion this fall and … non-concentration coursework, nor how . The task force comprised six senior faculty members, who worked through the …
Merrick Garland to Address Classes of 2020-2021 Ceremony
… announced today that Merrick B. Garland ’74, J.D. ’77, the eighty-sixth Attorney General of the United States, will address the special Commencement … on Sunday, May 29: the make-up ceremony for the classes of 2020-2021 (now alumni, of course), who received their …
Mohsen Mostafavi named dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design
… Link to news release ... … Mohsen Mostafavi named dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design … Mohsen Mostafavi named dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design … article …
Teaching and Learning: the Conversation Continues
… faculty meeting and a recent discussion series, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Michael D. Smith has brought pedagogy to the foreground, saying his goal is "to establish in the … Visit the FAS page for the initiative . Read coverage of the three discussions: on "active learning " (February …
Festival Rites: The Underside
… An innocent pleasure of Commencement Week is cap-watching. You stroll along the line of seniors in parade formation in the Yard ready to slope …
Issue: May-June 2014
Making the Call
… never happy sticking to one field. After graduating from the Stevens Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and working in Bell Labs, he felt the tug of technology and switched his focus in 1993 toward software …