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The Library’s Healers
… Dorothea ("Thea") Burns is hunched over a table holding a scalpel. Ever so gently she teases off fragments of a thick, rigid, cardboard mat that was … body for the more than 90 separate libraries that comprise the Harvard library system. Dorothea Burns working …
Issue: May-June 2004
Counting the War Dead
… How lethal are modern methods of warfare? Political scientists affiliated with the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO)—the … that produces the most commonly cited estimates of war deaths worldwide, in collaboration with Uppsala …
Issue: November-December 2007
Into the Inferno, with Notebook
… Ragtop down, a spectacular view of San Francisco Bay and the city below suddenly opens up for two seconds as we tear … students how the U.S. government reacts to foreign policy crises overseas," says Tarnoff. In simulated press …
Issue: January-February 2005
What Can Be Done About Gun Violence?
… earlier this week, Steven Dettelbach, J.D. ’91, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), began …
Harvard Public Health Dean Julio Frenk to Depart
… Julio Frenk , who became dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (as it was then known) … and nutrition-related problems Poverty and humanitarian crises , from war-caused displacement of populations to …
Retiring from the Ranks
… Of the 176 senior professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and four professional …
Issue: January-February 2011
Administrators Remove Last Remnants of Occupy Harvard
… Occupy Harvard’s geodesic dome and information tent, the last remaining physical structures of the protest movement that began on November 9 and … , have been removed from the Yard by administration officials. Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesperson Jeff …
The Hollowing Out
… T he “deplorables”— they are not the Other, they are ourselves. The best thing … and poor: not as voyeurs, but as neighbors. Nicholas Kristof ’82, a New York Times columnist whose parents were … behind the stories they told. Separate chapters cover the rise in incarceration, the origins of the opioid crisis, and …
Issue: May-June 2020
Bringing the Magic
… There’s a story that Tomi Adeyemi ’15 often tells about the “big bang” moment that sparked Children of Blood and Bone —the Afrofuturist fantasy epic that made …
Issue: September-October 2024
Allston Plans in the News
… The Boston Globe reported on December 12 ( link ) that … is rethinking earlier plans to move the Graduate School of Education and the School of Public Health to Allston as part of its campus-building …
For the Virtual Museumgoer
… The Busch-Reisinger museum will celebrate its hundredth … Museums, Museum Purchase/Copyright©2003 President & Fellows of Harvard College Giving a gift to art lovers unable to … "Extra Ordinary Every Day." About Germany's Bauhaus school of art, it concerns the intersection of fine art and the …
Issue: September-October 2003
Under Review: Tony Saich on Chinese Communism at 100
… Tony Saich begins his magisterial account of the hundred-year history of the Chinese Communist Party … shift to opening and reform in the early 1980s, and the rise of Xi Jinping in the context of a massive …
Issue: July-August 2021
As Supreme Court Takes Up Gun Ban, Greenhouse Is Watching
… Did the framers of the Bill of Rights intend the "right to bear arms" to apply only for … Is the possibility that American citizens will need to rise up against a tyrannical government so remote that the …
From the Presidency to the Cabinet?
… With the rumor mill abuzz that Eliot University … whether or not Summers’s concerns about the scholarship of African American studies professor Cornel West were …
College Curriculum Change Completed
… On May 15, at its sixth consecutive weekly meeting (the normal schedule is monthly), the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted to adopt the proposal for a … domain. During the May 15 discussion, however, she did rise to advise her colleagues that it would be “my privilege …