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Ashton Carter Named Deputy Secretary of Defense
… The White House has nominated Ashton B. Carter, the … Pentagon’s top weapons buyer, as the next deputy secretary of defense, reports the Boston Globe . The Obama … Defense Department budget, specifically the difficult task of slicing hundreds of billions of dollars from the …
Crimson in Congress
… fashion on November 4 when Senator Barack Obama, J.D. ’91, of Illinois, the first black president of the Harvard Law Review (see " … M.B.A. ’66, J.D. ’69, of Idaho. (The Democrats’ total will rise by one if Al Franken ’73, of Minnesota, wins his race …
Issue: January-February 2009
Class of ’63 Members Open a Time Capsule
… Twenty-five years ago, in the spring of 1988, six alums from the class of 1963 … conference room in Eliot House. (The group, originally comprised of 12, lived together in Eliot House as students, and …
Growth Spurt
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has grown more in the … positions annually for a decade. In fact, the census has risen from 615 positions during the 1997-1998 academic year … certain to slow because of what he calls “the considerable rise in our expenditures,” attributable primarily to the …
Issue: May-June 2007
The Mating Game
… students and prospective employers begin a complicated rite of courtship, complete with flirting (invitations), wooing (interviews), and proposals (offers). There is even a matchmaker, the Office of Career Services …
Governing Boards Change Composition of Overseers
… petition and elected after campaigning vigorously as part of the Harvard Forward slate joined the Board of Overseers, it … challenges affecting [emphasis added] the academic enterprise , and should from time to time review aspects of its …
Above and Beyond
… Hazard Stevens , of the class of 1865, led the assault that captured a Confederate fort. Leonard Wood, …
Issue: November-December 2009
The Copernicus Quest
… at back. Donning a crash helmet and an aviator's scarf for the trip, he reaches behind him and turns on the extinguisher, which releases a propulsive jet of carbon dioxide. The cart begins to move across the floor of the Science Center lecture hall. Gingerich picks up speed …
Issue: November-December 2003
Fishing the Charles
… Like most children who grew up in the Virginia countryside, I spent an inordinate portion of my youth fishing. And having been conditioned to regard … all the time, pulling carp and catfish from the confluence of the Charles River’s muddy waters. And we’d heard of a …
Provost Steven Hyman to Step Down at End of Academic Year
… Steven E. Hyman, MD '80, a neurobiologist who has served as the University’s provost since 2001, announced today that he would relinquish the post effective at the end of the academic year. The provost position at Harvard was … under President Neil L. Rudenstine in 1992; Hyman’s decade of service makes him the longevity champion, and gave him …
The Undergraduate: Running Over Murphy's Law
… I would have said I hated running (too many bad memories of middle-school gym) and getting wet in the rain (nothing can tame my hair in the presence of … of depression and anxiety, I would not have been surprised to see a jump in patients this past winter: …
Issue: September-October 2015
College Admits 14.5 Percent of Early Action Applicants
… The College admitted 14.5 percent of early-action applicants … 14.8 percent last year, the University announced today. Of the 6,473 students who applied through the program, 938 …
In "Art of Jazz," A Multivocal Exhibit
… In the front hall of the Cooper Gallery on Mount Auburn Street, what appear to be … bubble-shaped lanterns hang from the ceiling—but instead of beaming down light to illuminate the art, they pipe in …
Jobs and Jail
… In the 1970s and ’80s, America’s cities were engulfed in … hollowed out, and fragile working-class communities ruined. Often, it’s told as a white working-class story, but … home that I had been raised in. Drug addiction was on the rise. People had to rely more on public assistance to get …
Issue: May-June 2021
Facing Risks for the Public Good: The Kennedy School Graduation Address
… In the carefully secured John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, the Harvard Kennedy School’s class of 2010 heard Dean David Ellwood introduce their … Mexican president Felipe Calderón, M.P.A. ’00, as a man of action whose efforts to better his country stand as an …