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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
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
Breaking the Silence
… How does Harvard College address the possibility of inappropriate personal attention, … acknowledges that an instructor may abuse a position of power. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has an official …
“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
Harvard College Admits 5.8 Percent of Applicants
… Harvard College announced Thursday that offers of admission to the class of 2017 had been sent to 2,029 students, 5.8 … attend if admitted, the “yield” on offers of admission has risen compared to prior years, and so the number of offers …
Off the Shelf
… $26). A New Yorker staff writer and Vassar associate professor travels back to his youth as a son of Taiwanese … Japanese American. Every detail of life in Berkeley then seems engraved in his memory and is recaptured … Child, to today’s biotech, digital, and emerging enterprises. Given MIT’s entrepreneurial DNA, and Harvard’s …
Issue: September-October 2022
Building RoboBees: How Harvard Engineers Are Revolutionizing Micro-Robotics
… One day nearly a decade ago, Gu-Yeon Wei was walking the corridors of Harvard’s newly established School of Engineering and … a page in a children’s pop-up book. Manufacturing complex machines with tiny, integrated piezoelectric motors in this …
Issue: November-December 2017
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
The B.A. Diploma from A to Z
… The first Harvard diploma in English instead of Latin appeared in 1961. When word of the abandonment of Latin came through in April, it …
The Baby Business
… sperm (in high supply) is a bargain at $250 to $400 a vial, the price of eggs (harder to come by) is $3,000 to $8,000 per cycle, … sperm injection into the ovum) or up to $14,000 for a cycle of IVF (in vitro fertilization). Need to rent a womb? …
Issue: July-August 2006
Loneliness—Bad for Body and Mind
… come to know its unfortunate mental toll at some time or other during the course of their lives—but medicine is increasingly recognizing the … , researchers from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health found a link between chronic loneliness and …
Atul Gawande Harvard Alumni Day Speech
… I know why. Lately, I too have been hungry to connect with others in this community. Certainly, this is a chance to … this institution in a perilous time. Let me tell you some of what I have seen. I am a child of Indian immigrants who’d come for medical training, and I …
Room for the Arts?
… Photograph by Jim Harrison Facing the loss of the Rieman dance center to the Radcliffe … the Quadrangle Recreational Athletics Center. Dance is one of many undergraduate arts programs clamoring for space as …
Issue: November-December 2003
The Senior Alumni
… Evelyn Richmond ’41, of Nashville, Tennessee, and Arsen Charles ’42, of Westwood, Massachusetts, were the oldest Radcliffe and Harvard alumni present on …
Issue: July-August 2019
Off the Shelf
… The Art of Cloth in Mughal India , by Sylvia Houghteling ’06 (Princeton, $65). To wide public knowledge of Mughal masterpieces in painting and architecture, … Houghteling now adds comprehensive appreciation of the textiles created and traded at the height of the empire …
Issue: July-August 2022