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Eye on Iran and Israel
… Bemis professor of international law Noah Feldman ’92, JF ’02, sees … Bush's practically unconditional support for Israel, and the potential for the United States's position to change … the United States. Feldman is the author of The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State . You can read the rest of his …
A Justice’s Modest Counsel
… When I arrived at the Supreme Court as a 20-year-old undergraduate, I was directed to the clerk’s office, where an assistant phoned Justice David Souter’s chambers to announce my arrival. To my surprise, it was the Justice himself who came down the hall to …
Issue: July-August 2025
“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 …
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
Encouraging Antibiotic Innovation
… One of the chief obstacles to finding new antibiotics is that many … According to a report by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, just five major firms were engaged in antibiotic … weeks. Moreover, because resistant infections are on the rise, newly approved antibiotics are held in reserve, to be …
Issue: May-June 2014
How to Reform Healthcare
… all your symptoms—but at a stage too late to treat. How can the practice of medicine change to address challenges like these? More … The overuse and misuse of antibiotics have accelerated the rise of resistant bacteria, explained Francis professor of …
A Sunny Celebration
… Greater Boston had a cream-puff of a winter—particularly in comparison to the relentless battering of 2014-2015, when icicles by the … paused, and various times when students were supposed to rise, but did not, or upon being commanded to rise, were …
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 Anti-thesis
… had difficulty with conclusions. Writing a 101-page senior thesis may have only made my problem worse. I should have … Eliot House resident tutor Amie von Briesen '95, L '01, offered over dinner one night. "Whatever you do, don't wait … couldn't make it through inter-House transfers and thesis crises. As both professional partners and peers, our best and …
Use your Imagination
… Entertaining a child can often be a lopsided proposition. If you’re hoping to find a … so cleverly camouflaged that adults and kids enjoy “spying” them. Wick’s artistry is now on display in I SPY! Walter … celebrates Rockwell’s work but also the broader impact of visual culture. See Wick’s dioramas, optical illusions, …
Issue: July-August 2025
The Short List
… major Ivy League university. Must be able to raise billions of dollars every year, root convincingly for athletic teams … a geeky crimson scarf. Must be able to write an article on the future of higher education for the New York Times op-ed … players for its annual All-Star Game. Much to the surprise of University officials, the voters' overwhelming …
The Pandemic's Unequal Toll
… As the data from the COVID-19 pandemic begin to accumulate, a … disproportionate toll on poorer Americans and communities of color. According to figures from the Centers for Disease Control, black Americans make up 13 percent of the country’s population but one-third of confirmed COVID …
News from the HAA
… Congratulations The HAA clubs committee recognizes publicly those who … exemplary service to a Harvard club. This year's winners of the Outstanding Club Contribution Awards were announced … Conference held on October 26. Donald Christopher '74, of Orlando. He is chairman of the Schools and Scholarships …
Issue: January-February 2002
Radcliffe Talks Voting
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study celebrated its fifteenth anniversary with a special, daylong series of events on May 30. In the Knafel Center that morning, the … at Northwestern, spoke next. Her book Black Victory: the Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas (1979, revised …
The Veil’s Revival
… One evening in the late 1990s, Thomas professor of divinity Leila Ahmed saw … with the Palestinians. Ahmed was particularly surprised to meet an American Muslim woman in Boston who said …
Issue: September-October 2011