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Joseph S. Nye: How Do Past Presidents Rank in Foreign Policy?
… do presidents incorporate morality into decisions involving the national interest? Moral considerations explain why Truman, who authorized the use of nuclear weapons in Japan during World War II, later … And in the effort to do so, we helped to stimulate the rise of basically the terrorist movements in the region, …
Up Next: The Harvard Center for Gastrophysics?
… anything to get oohs and ahhs from his audience. During the world-renowned Catalan chef's speech in a Harvard lecture hall last week, videos of his playful, experimental cooking techniques sufficed. … the boundary between solid and liquid. His efforts to surprise his customers include the spherical olive (a ball of …
Waving the Flag
… IN 1913 Loomis Temple of Music of New Haven published sheet music for a Yale fight song … "Good-Night poor Har-vard, Har-vard Good-night!" goes the refrain. "We've got your number you're high as a kite. …
Poetry, Voiced
… In 1928, Frederick Clifton Packard Jr. ’20, head of Harvard’s public-speaking department, improvised a cutting-edge audio-recording studio in one of the Yard’s oldest buildings, installing a telegraphone in … association with voice is as old as the art itself, the rise of radio in the 1920s dramatically reconfigured that …
Issue: July-August 2017
"Boston Globe" Cites Elizabeth Warren as Bostonian of the Year
… Citing her role as chair of the congressional oversight panel that monitors the Troubled … institutions--the Boston Globe Magazine named Gottlieb professor of law Elizabeth Warren the Bostonian of the Year . …
Problems with the Protocol
… The Kyoto protocol is to date the only international … agreement that calls for action to reduce emissions of CO 2 . Yet the Harvard scientists and economists who study climate change express almost universal criticism of the accord, which they fault as economically inefficient, …
Issue: November-December 2002
Saved from the Flames
… "Last night Harvard College suffered the most ruinous loss it ever met with since its … printed in Boston on January 25, 1764. "In the middle of a very tempestuous night, a severe cold storm of snow … by it. When it was discovered from the town, it had risen to a degree of violence that defied all opposition. It …
Off the Shelf
… The Close: A Young Woman's First Year at Seminary , by Chloe … Cambridge in an interfaith, secular household, the daughter of an American Jewish father (and U.S. Supreme Court … an Episcopal minister. Why? She explains in this memoir of her first year at General Theological Seminary in New …
Strings, Sax, and a Dash of Sass
… Aiming to “mix up genres and provoke the audience,” says A Far Cry violinist Alex Fortes ’07, the … “inspiring and enlivening an audience through performance of classical music—broadly defined.” The group has released … Museum … 1505 … 1538 … 8468 … Strings, Sax, and a Dash of Sass … article …
Issue: September-October 2014
Off the Shelf
… possible? Should America help bring it about? Yes, says the author, a professor at the New York University School of Law with a D.Phil from Oxford in Islamic thought. (See " …
Issue: July-August 2003
Protesters Surround Mass. Hall in “Heat Week” Action
… Two dozen students from the activist group Divest Harvard blockaded the doors of Massachusetts Hall early on Sunday evening, kicking off a … of how climate change and the accompanying sea-level rise are affecting Pacific island nations. Shouts and claps …
Transforming Portraiture and the World
… and novelist Toni Morrison, Litt.D. ’89, emerges from the white background of a painting by contemporary portraitist Robert McCurdy. … Gift of Ian M. and Annette P. Cumming To his surprise, Thompson discovered that 15 of the Cumming subjects …
“The Impression That You Exist”
… Amid all the naysaying and upbraiding and doom-forecasting directed … president emeritus Neil Rudenstine (a poetry scholar) offered a restrained, if comparatively sober, assessment: … his manifold perspectives (administrative, personal, professorial) to assess that most ossified of dilemmas: the …
The “Upstander”
… Dean Martha L. Minow has two desks in her Harvard Law School office. The one she sits at is a rosewood partners’ desk, wide … have changed, too: the proportion of students of color has risen to 44 percent from 32 percent, and of women in the …
Joanne Chang’s Sticky Buns
… Joanne Chang , owner and head pastry chef of Flour Bakery + Café, is the subject of the article " Sweet Science ," in this … place buns, evenly spaced, in the pan. Cover and allow to rise for 2 to 3 hours in a warm place. Preheat oven to 350 …
Issue: March-April 2008