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Time to Electrify
… The recent spike in oil prices , to more than $100 per … the resulting, predictable outcry over the return of the $4 gallon of gas—have prompted hurried responses from … for ethanol has at least contributed to the recent rise in global food prices. Why not abolish the corn-ethanol …
Issue: July-August 2011
President Faust’s Virtual Beginning-of-Year Message
… President Drew Faust — who launched the 2009 academic year with a speech in Sanders Theatre (on … Harvard after the financial crisis and decline in the value of the endowment; read her text ), and the 2010 year with a … message"—with Faust standing in her Massachusetts Hall office and narrating as images flash by of the campus, …
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 …
The Book on Houghton
… I n connection with the inaugural exhibition celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of Houghton Library , Heather G. Cole, assistant curator of modern books and manuscripts, and John H. Overholt, …
Issue: March-April 2017
Tracing the Enslaved to Modern Descendants
… A genetic analysis of African Americans who labored at a Revolutionary War-era forge for the first time connects ancient DNA to living people who … originally developed for analyzing DNA that is tens of thousands of years old to develop genetic profiles of 27 …
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
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
Burned at the Buzzer
… T he big hit of the New York theater season in 1894 was William Gillette's Too Much … in the title role, set an Ivy League record by catching 21 of the 42 passes completed by Joe Walland, the league's …
Behind the Scenes: Digging into the archive
… When I started working on the September-October feature about Harvard Library’s … The University has such a vast and expanding universe of specialized archives and research units, and I knew there was a collection of materials covering Jewish life, art, literature, and …
A New Cast for the Semitic Museum
… “Fun with goo!” chirped Peter Der Manuelian, director of the Harvard Semitic Museum , observing the activity in its … shaped like a tombstone. Theirs was the first shift of a museum project undertaken over three days in late …
The Corporation's Crimson Newcomer
… succeeded James R. Houghton ’58, M.B.A. ’62, as a member of the President and Fellows of Harvard College (the … from Cornell in 1976), Lee talked about leading an enterprise with 1,000 attorneys, 2,500 other employees, $1 billion …
Issue: July-August 2010
Due Process
… years ago, Jeannie Suk Gersen was still telling people that the area of law she specialized in—sexual assault and domestic … whether something did or didn’t happen.” Similar questions arise in cases of alleged rape and sexual assault. “In recent …
Issue: March-April 2021
Allston Options: Up for Discussion
… Calling “effective transportation” the “most critical” of the issues Harvard faces as it plans … and the Palmer-Dixon Courts, while academic buildings would rise on Ohiri Field and other sites south of the Business …
Issue: July-August 2005
Prosperity and the Pill
… Hailed as a medical miracle, the birth-control pill has been lauded and vilified for its … sexual revolution. Now, in a recent paper, "The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions," Lee professor of economics Claudia Goldin and professor of …
The (Other) Crew Captain
… Knock on the door. Wait. Insert key, turn. Open slightly. “Dorm … work for Dorm Crew, a student-run, student-staffed division of the University’s Facilities Maintenance Operations. We … questions of pay rate, overtime, and promotion always arise, but this year someone discovered one of the small …
Issue: January-February 2006