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Ring of the Road
… 94 million Americans own a cellular phone, and 90 percent of those owners make calls while driving. Although cell phones appeared on the U.S. market only in the mid 1980s, a majority of Americans will own one by the year 2005 if the trend …
The Events of the Week
… The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, … updates, visit www.harvard-magazine.com or www.commencementoffice.harvard.edu. TUESDAY, JUNE 4 Phi Beta Kappa … with orator Simon Schama and poet Charles Wright. Sanders Theatre. Baccalaureate Services for graduating seniors, at …
Issue: May-June 2002
The Events of the Week
… The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, … schedules, visit www.harvardmagazine.com or www.commencementoffice.harvard.edu . Commencement & Reunion Guide • Kidding Around • The Dating Game • Passing the Baton • Fare Thee Well • …
Issue: May-June 2005
History of the Historian
… The job of remaking the Mississippi River, Mark Twain wrote in the 1870s, is “a job transcended in size only by the original job of creating it.” In that turn of phrase, Twain captured not …
Issue: July-August 2006
The Events of the Week
… The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, … Summers and Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, former president of Mexico. For updated schedules, visit … 2 50th Reunion Symposium, 1:30-4. "Where Have We Been in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century?" 50th Reunion …
Issue: May-June 2003
Curator of American Culture
… On the eve of Election Day last fall, Vanity Fair … scoffed at her fashion sense. “I was perhaps surprised by the surprise, because I had worked in magazines for a long time,” …
Issue: March-April 2021
Quality of Care
… Several years ago, Lisa Iezzoni, S.M. ’78, M.D. ’84, one of the most prominent researchers in healthcare and disability, … prejudices, and deficiencies. Respondents included a mix of primary care doctors and specialists in fields like …
Issue: May-June 2025
The Future of War and the American Military
… The people who run the American military have to be futurists, whether they want to be or not. The process of developing and building new weapons takes decades, as does the process of recruiting and training new military officers. As a …
Issue: May-June 2002
The Global Empire of Niall Ferguson
… Here is an image calculated to ruffle the feathers of all red-blooded Americans: Consuming on … he argues in another of his contentious books, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons …
Issue: May-June 2007
"An Instrument of Good Will"
… Joseph Hamlen was shocked. He was new at the game and had yet to learn that when you raise money for … and days when you have your head handed to you. Hamlen, of the class of 1904, had left his Arkansas timber business … (FAS). In the past 15 years, gifts for current use have risen from $7 million to $20 million a year, and because …
Realities of Empire
… Empires fascinate. Not only scholars, but writers of fiction, geographers, sociologists, videogame and movie producers. We historians ask why and how they are they formed: by conquest, surely, though sometimes … the theory in Jennifer Pitts’s 2005, A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France , 2005.) …
Issue: May-June 2022
The Perils of Prediction
… On the occasion of Harvard’s 350th anniversary, this magazine … developed a new appreciation of how a free, private-enterprise economy (with lower taxes and less regulation) can … for its own sake, in a larger, more layered enterprise that, “like other colleges and universities which had …
Issue: September-October 2011
Underground: The Story of Harvard’s Class of 1968
… want to say no—I mean, who gets to have a movie made about their undergraduate senior thesis?” Ariel Smolik-Valles ’17 … was setting up his camera, to call her over for a close-up of the flowery, ’60s-throwback ankle boots she was wearing. … in the Grass” wafted down from speakers overhead, part of the Pusey Library’s “Harvard 1968” exhibit, which …
Buffering the Sun
… stairs two steps at a time, as though impelled by a sense of urgency. The Harvard scholar is interested in both the scientific and … on Climate Change in its 2007 assessment report, forecast a rise of 2.0 to 5.2 degrees by 2100, while the direst …
Issue: July-August 2013
The Liberal Art of Engineering
… Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News Office Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti The 10-year tenure of Venkatesh Narayanamurti, dean of the School of …
Issue: September-October 2008