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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
The Watchdog
… mass unemployment, Bharat Ramamurti ’03 got the official call from Senate minority leader Chuck … a defining problem for Ramamurti’s generation, giving rise to his interest in banking and economic policy. …
Issue: September-October 2020
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
Off the Shelf
… Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, by Catherine Orenstein '90 (Basic Books, … Much we need to know about men, women, and the shiftiness of morality is taught in the 10 tellings of the famous fairy …
Issue: July-August 2002
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
He Has Made the World a Safer Place
… Thursday, May 31, former students, friends, and colleagues of molecular biologist Matthew Meselson, Cabot professor of natural sciences, gathered at the American …
Crimson on the Hill
… The Republicans may have swept Capitol Hill in the November … elections, but the Democrats remain firmly in control of Harvard's contingent of alumni representatives and senators: 27 (plus one …
Issue: January-February 2003
The Juggler’s Tale
… From the outside and the outset, the Dumbarton Oaks Research … is an oddity. The building, nestled in a leafy corner of Georgetown, in Washington, D.C., runs the architectural … marble and hung with tapestries, to the curved glass walls of the Philip Johnson Pavilion (both add-ons to the original …
Issue: November-December 2018
A Wide Receiver on the Basketball Court
… player, sometimes jokes with teammates that even on the basketball court, he’s “an NFL-level wide receiver.” … snagged the ball with his left hand and, while falling out of bounds, whipped a pass to co-captain Sam Silverstein ’24. … a receiver on the football team, which led to scholarship offers in both sports. The basketball opportunities proved …
Off the Shelf
… Visions of Spaceflight: Images from the Ordway Collection, selected and with an introduction by … I. Ordway III '49 (Four Walls Eight Windows, $50). Lukian of Samosata, writing in Greek apparently the first work of …
Issue: September-October 2001
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 …
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
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
Harvard Square's Best
… During the worst early days of the pandemic in Massachusetts, the … to mess it up.” Returnees to the Square will likely be surprised by the number of new businesses to arrive during the …
Issue: September-October 2021
Popping the Harvard Bubble
… my virtual Commencement from Harvard while living on another college campus: Arizona State University. There’s a … maroon-and-gold banners congratulating the Sun Devil Class of 2021, when my own graduation from college is just days … two weeks into a journalism internship in my home state of Arizona, I sometimes forget that the past four years have …