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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 …
In from the Margins
… The first radiant spring day formed an auspicious backdrop … on April 9. Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, historian of education and president of the Spencer Foundation, will … all the parents in a household work, language barriers have risen, and social inequality and even homelessness hobble …
Issue: July-August 2002
Brevia
… Ultimate Overseers Harvard’s Board of Overseers (the University’s junior governing board) has elected Seth P. … Tuition Ticks Up The cost of attending Harvard College will rise to $50,724 next academic year, from $48,868 currently. …
Issue: May-June 2010
Upending U.S. Politics
… Among the many ways U.S. politics has been transformed in the past decade, the rise of nationwide citizens’ activist groups devoted to resisting …
Issue: March-April 2020
Putting the Science in Social Science
… Can political scientists devise formulas to predict the outbreak of war? Although the notion seems far-fetched, James Alt … and pundits. "It bothers us that people say they're surprised by things that we don't think should be a surprise," …
Issue: September-October 2001
Seeing the Ice
… A.J. Mleczko ’97 (’99) could always see the ice. As a player, that was one thing she counted on, … more than the goals and assists (although there were plenty of those, too). But her ability to read the ice—to … breakaway or open look—that was why, after so many years of skating at center, serving as a playmaker and face-off …
Issue: March-April 2019
“Taming” the Rhine
… fens and marshes, lush, low-lying polders and high moors of heath and bog. When he leaves his home in Lexington, Massachusetts, to visit the coast, he and his wife walk the creeks and saltmarshes of Essex and Gloucester, north of Boston. The sights and …
Issue: July-August 2006
Harvard in a Multipolar World
… Try to imagine what the world might be like 25 years from now. It seems quite … as the biggest economy in the world, and the galloping pace of economic growth in Asia will have established the region … Prize winners. Even in the face of mainland China’s rapid rise, the United States will retain these advantages for …
Issue: September-October 2011
Easing the Energy Transition
… What are the biggest economic obstacles to the needed rapid transition in energy supplies and the challenges of deforestation driven by climate change? Leon Clarke, … and adaptation measures, and preserving forests, the cost rises to perhaps $3 trillion to $4 trillion a year. These …
Off the Shelf
… personalities," wrote a literary critic in 1937, "probably the most urbane and humanistic since Socrates is Mr. … the United States for more than 40 years and was a member of the Harvard faculty before World War I--in the golden age of philosophy hereabouts--Santayana is most often remembered …
Fathoming Metabolism
… A thimbleful of your blood. To Robert Gerszten, that’s like a window on … well-being. In some cases, it may even let him see into the future of your health. Gerszten and his colleague Greg Lewis work …
Issue: May-June 2011
Grace Notes
… arch above his head, seven or eight feet tall. Bands of golden grapes cascade down. Russell, head winemaker at … sweet, much more so than a table grape, not at all like the wine it’ll become. “A Riesling grape tends to taste like … he tastes get him thinking about his plan for the rest of the harvest: when to send in the mechanical picker, and …
Issue: January-February 2019
Off the Shelf
… The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison , by Robert Ellis Gordon '76 and inmates of the Washington Corrections System (Washington State … state legislature. His writing and the essays and stories of six of his students provide a memorable image of the …
“The public is growing restive”
… President Derek Bok used his “last occasion to report to the alumni” to “share some parting reflections on the … this University and others like it.” He began with a moment of personal reflection: “ I realize that more than 55 years … from southern California and ready to scale the heights of legal education.” Bok then outlined five subjects facing …
Issue: July-August 2007
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