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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
Letters Between Friends
… In 2004 , the Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum in New Bedford purchased a collection of documents that included the William Rotch (1844–1925) … between 1858 and 1861. Willie was the great-grandson of William Rotch Jr. (1759–1850), who built the house that …
Speeding in the Lanes
… Last February, the powerhouse Harvard women’s swimming and diving squad … with suitable facilities; the host institution supplies the officials.) Princeton had won five consecutive times, … meet with an undefeated 10-0 record. Yet on the first day of competition, the Crimson dug itself a hole. Its 400-yard …
Issue: March-April 2006
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 …
The Candidates
… new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board will be chosen by … All Harvard degree holders, except Corporation members and officers of instruction and government, may vote for Overseer …
Issue: May-June 2006
The Blue Garden
… In the Gilded Age, Newport, Rhode Island, became the summer playground of the American upper class. Vanderbilts and Astors built … the others in magnificence. Yet, flying in the face of this craze, Arthur Curtiss James, whose riches derived …
Issue: July-August 2022
The Teen Brain
… Your teenage daughter gets top marks in school, captains the debate team, and volunteers at a shelter for homeless … who have been exploring the unique structure and chemistry of the adolescent brain. “The teenage brain is not just an … brain with fewer miles on it,” says Frances E. Jensen, a professor of neurology. “It’s a paradoxical time of …
Issue: September-October 2008
Lessons from the Navajo
… In 1968, Lucy Moore '66 accompanied her then-husband, Bob Hilgendorf, J.D. '67, to Chinle--Canyon de Chelly--in the heart of the Navajo Nation, in Arizona, hoping not only to do some … taught in elementary schools before being elected justice of the peace for her district. Lucy Moore, her son, and …
Issue: March-April 2005
Crimson Construction
… than 600 structures spread across Cambridge, Allston, and the Longwood Medical Area—declined by nearly two-thirds by 2022, from a pre-pandemic peak of nearly a billion dollars a year. But as any visitor to … from the engineering complex, in the form of the “enterprise research campus”; a new performance center for the …
Issue: September-October 2024
The Endowment Eases
… endowment was valued at $30.7 billion last June 30, the end of fiscal year 2012—a decline of $1.3 billion (4.1 percent) from the prior year . That …
Issue: November-December 2012
Records of Harvard Heroes Wanted!
… The advocates for Harvard ROTC ( www.advocatesforrotc.org ) … memorialize too-long-forgotten Harvard veterans in the Hall of Heroes section of its website. Relatives, friends, and classmates are …
Issue: January-February 2010
Interpreting the Universe
… Mildred Thompson’s prints, at the New Britain Museum of American Art through November 27, offer abstract, yet personal, depictions of scientific …
Issue: July-August 2022
“House-Poor”
… An unusual “Dean’s Letter on the Finances of the Faculty,” presented to the Faculty … The number of regular faculty members, for instance, has risen steadily, jumping from 663 to 719 during the past …
Issue: January-February 2007
“Class Cluelessness”
… Donald J. Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election spawned a maelstrom of finger-pointing and soul-searching within the Democratic … of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (2016). J.D. Vance described his own …
Issue: July-August 2017
Love in the Last Act
… it. What about you? Lil: Fabulous. For five years, all the things we did. Could. Hope to do. Elinor: Uh-huh. What … disease for eight years and was fast moving from a state of “confusion to delirium.” Their strange dialogues, Fuchs … where other people might be appalled,” says Fuchs, a professor at the Yale School of Drama “Now, I am not saying …
Issue: May-June 2006