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Karen Dynan on the Coronavirus Recession
… As the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly escalates across the world, the United States economy has entered one of its most dramatic crises on record. In little more than a month, the Dow Jones …
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
By the Books
… Are the humanities in crisis (a spiral of declining student … in Society and Solitude” ) is a paean to the enterprise of deep reading and humanistic thought. (Note to the …
Issue: September-October 2013
The Blaxploitation Era
… Three of last summer's popular film comedies— Barbershop, Undercover Brother, and Austin Powers: Goldmember —recalled, in one … makes a strong fashion statement. Film still courtesy of the Independent Film Channel Now a fourth film, the …
Issue: January-February 2003
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 …
Renewing the News
… W alter Cronkite stepped to the podium before a respectful audience at Harvard one November evening in 1990. An avuncular legend of broadcast journalism, celebrated as “the most trusted man … across the country who felt unheard,” he said. “It surprised us all.” That led to a new realization: If the …
Issue: January-February 2020
Micro-units: A New Trend?
… The micro-unit trend (see “Living Large in Tiny Apartments,” … to develop in the United States. In November, the city of San Francisco unveiled plans to build new “SmartSpace” … guarantee a quality of life.” … Tiny apartments are on the rise in cities like San Francisco and Boston. … Micro …
The Perfect Amateur
… but a pleasure, one that brings back fond early memories of trips to the Reading (Pennsylvania) Museum with his mother. As the … some visitors describe, but rather the warmth and beauty of specific objects he has admired, and of the women who …
Issue: March-April 2006
Snapshots of Ghana
… This summer I worked as an intern for Students of the World , a nonprofit media-production company dedicated to pairing teams of …
A Lifetime of Sharing
… In the late 1970s, I attended my first Class of 1960 luncheon, in those days held at the downtown Harvard Club of Boston. It quickly became clear that these gatherings …
Issue: May-June 2010
The 2020 Harvard Medalists
… The Harvard Alumni Association today recognized three … University. (The actual medal presentation, typically part of the HAA’s annual meeting on Commencement Day, has been deferred to a later date.) Senior College admissions officer David L. Evans retires this summer, following more …
At the Forefront
… Pass Addelson and Philip Keene Photograph by Jane Reed The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on Commencement day, who … meeting, were 101-year-old Philip Keene '25, S.M. '40, of Middletown, Connecticut, who was making his third …
Issue: July-August 2004
The Elephant in the Cutting Room
… “Never write from an animal’s perspective,” admonished the fiction-writing manual that Tania James ’03 read while … workshop. At that moment, she realized the magnitude of the risk she had taken in her then recently completed … of a very broad system.” She mentions her initial surprise at learning that the United States is the world’s …
Issue: January-February 2016
The Student Prince
… and house-made bratwürst, dishes that have been on the menu of The Student Prince Café & The Fort Restaurant … a gas fireplace in the main dining room Photograph courtesy of The Student Prince Then he nods to the walls that tell …
Issue: November-December 2021
Off the Shelf
… The End of Bias: A Beginning , by Jessica Nordell ’99 … collections steward presents items from the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture as pure, captivating forms. No matter … of the parental one percent (“Gatsby’s children”). The surprise is how miserable these cosseted, pressured youngsters …
Issue: November-December 2021