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The $2-Trillion War
… in a democratic society whose citizens expect to know what they are paying for, someone has to do it. Linda Bilmes, lecturer in public policy, began the task of toting up the fiscal outlay on the Iraq war when students … them faster than we make them.” Reenlistment bonuses have risen from $25,000 to as high as $150,000. “Those costs will …
Issue: May-June 2006
Beyond the Transcript
… Last year, Harvard's senior admissions officers urged applicants to the College-- and their parents--to relax a little, lest the rising generation of undergraduates pursue achievement so relentlessly that …
Issue: November-December 2001
The Vernacular
… Vorenberg recalls stumbling over a “Harvard shibboleth” in the 1970s when her late husband, James ’49, LL.B. ’51, former dean of the Law School and Pound professor of law, was master of Dunster House. “Jim and I had …
Issue: September-October 2007
A Look in the Mirror
… On December 12, the Harvard Corporation declared its unanimous support for … pointing to changes in some citations but rejecting claims of research misconduct. The University’s five living former … days later, on January 2, Gay resigned. (A summary of the news appears in “A Presidency’s End,” at page 14 in …
Issue: March-April 2024
Academic Access, Education Reform
… Ava Clayton Spencer, who concluded 15 years of Harvard service as vice president for policy on June 30, was inaugurated as the eighth president of Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine, … unites excellence and opportunity at the heart of the enterprise, allowing talented students regardless of background or …
The Vaillant Path
… In a way, the man who has headed the Grant Study for more than 30 … children by his first marriage, the couple have a daughter of their own, Joanna. Vaillant is a colorful character who … a dreadful dancer and terrible athlete. "I know little of modern life," he confides, recalling that he once turned …
Steven Maheshwary: “Confidence, in a Handful of Dust”
… width:402] In his Harvard Oration , one of four student speeches on Class Day, Steven Maheshwary ’12 stressed the importance of enthusiasm and urged his fellow classmates on Class Day …
Enjoying the Endowment
… Harvard benefactors can, for the first time, participate directly in the superior … assets. According to Anne D. McClintock, executive director of University Planned Giving, trust assets have previously … which are further diversified, reflecting the larger size of the asset pool (about $1 billion in all planned-giving …
Issue: March-April 2004
Where the Gentrified Antelope Play
… Three decades ago, Davis Square in Somerville was the pits. A Cambridge matron who lives nearby recalls … there for ice cream, but nothing else she wanted was on offer. The movie theater, which had once been an opera … and a glass or two of wine in a neighborhood bistro. Enterprise has provided just such a place amid former blight: …
Issue: September-October 2001
The Corporate Empires
… Once we were The Corporate Empires. Today, Bob does fiber-optics research in Arizona. Chester works at the U.S. Patent Office, refereeing intellectual-property fights over … ex-), children, and mortgages. Every summer, the remains of the Empires reassemble for an afternoon of ragged …
Issue: September-October 2005
A Tale of Two Universities
… times, all Ivy League schools seem similar, but at moments of crisis their differences and vulnerabilities emerge. The eight Ivy … the conference center within the privately developed “enterprise research campus” near the Business School. But other, …
Issue: March-April 2021
The E-Mail Investigation
… Three searches of Harvard College resident deans’ e-mail accounts last September—prompted by unauthorized disclosure of Administrative Board communications during an … undertaken in good faith” by people who “believed that they were acting in compliance with applicable e-mail …
Issue: September-October 2013
Your Take: Executive Power and the Law
… its own laws? How should such occurrences be handled after the fact? In this issue's Forum, Charles Fried, Beneficial professor of law at Harvard, and his son Gregory Fried ’83, professor …
Issue: September-October 2010
“Nothing Has to Stay the Way It Is”
… Before she launched into the main part of her Commencement address—about the present, … to our planet’s natural resources; it and the resulting crises are caused by humans,” Merkel said. “I will therefore …
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Wild on the Strip
… To see her on the fencing strip is to witness an almost terrifying release of aggression. With lightning speed, a blur of lunges, parries, and thrusts springs from a disciplined …
Issue: January-February 2006