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Federico Cortese
… believe classical music is dying,” says Federico Cortese, the new conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, “but I do believe there is a risk of becoming too aloof from the rest of the world.” Since …
Issue: September-October 2009
Off the Shelf
… Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life , edited by Louise M. Antony, … or hostile to religion to hold that morality is independent of the existence of God. Antony is professor of philosophy at the University …
Issue: September-October 2007
“What Is the Competition for Homelessness?”
… In its thirty-seventh decade as the archetypal nonprofit institution, Harvard has begun to … profit-driven organizations--the Initiative on Social Enterprise encompasses new research, courses, and executive …
The Search, Summarized
… The quest for Harvard's twenty-seventh president took shape … 22 that he would step down June 30, 2001, after a decade of service. Under Harvard's charter, the Corporation elects … the president, with counsel and consent from the Board of Overseers. As in the 1990-91 search that selected …
Bailey Named Director of BGLTQ Student Life
… Vanidy M. Bailey will serve as director of Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Queer (BGLTQ) student life beginning July 16, dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds announced this week. Bailey, who will report to the assistant dean of student life, will oversee all …
The View from down the River
… MIT has erected some eye-catching buildings during the past few years: Frank Gehry’s exuberant Stata Center and … dormitory. Robert Simha, who for 40 years was MIT’s head of planning, points to the very different physical situations of the two schools. “One major advantage MIT had, in the …
Issue: September-October 2007
Kitchen Arts
… and some wine,” says chef Jason Martin, as he strides into the kitchen at Dave’s Fresh Pasta , a gourmet deli and wine … not bashful,” says one woman. She pours the first glass of a crisp Austrian Grüner Veltliner and soon all 12 of the … with bowls, measuring cups, and a few Imperia Pasta Machines. Into a well of flour he pours a few beaten eggs, …
Issue: January-February 2016
Back with a Marshall, Still Strong in the Rhodes
… Thomas Wolf Jon Chase / Harvard News Office Melissa Dell Sarah Hill Rose Licoln / Harvard News Office Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Swati Mylavarapu … of Pforzheimer House and Brielle, New Jersey, has restored the University to a list it missed last year for the first …
Issue: March-April 2005
Chinese Trade Dragons
… China’s economy has grown more than five-fold during the last 20 years, adjusted for inflation—making it the … the U.S. economy. This rapid growth has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty . Concurrently, China has …
Controversial Reunioner
… The urbane Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl '09 was Hitler's crony … and played the piano for him soothingly. He later fell out of favor and fled to the United States, where he worked … Franklin D. Roosevelt '04. In Hitler's Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl, Confidant of Hitler, …
Issue: September-October 2004
The Grounds Round
… de Vergie ’56 finds it entertaining and informative to scan the want ads when he reads the paper. One Sunday morning in … the Washington Post that intrigued him: the U.S. Department of State was looking for a specialist in landscape … earned a bachelor’s degree in that field at the University of Michigan and had worked in private firms ever since. He …
Missed Some of 2020’s Best Films?
… Because many viewers missed out on 2020 films, the Brattle Theatre’s Ned Hinkle and Coolidge Corner … rejoin her husband, learns he has died, and follows traces of his secret life. (Portugal) • His House: An allegorical … in Oslo tracks down the man who stole her paintings—an often raw meditation on vulnerability, self-destruction, and …
“Harvard Belongs to All of Us”
… While crisscrossing continents during the past few decades, the new Harvard Alumni Association … has always found her Harvard “home.” “I’ve been a member of Harvard clubs everywhere I’ve lived—Washington, D.C., … urged her to join efforts to reinvigorate the Harvard Club of Victoria, which Hill gladly did, ultimately helping to …
Issue: September-October 2019
Winning the West
… The 1949 season was a disaster. In a quixotic bid to restore Harvard football to national prominence, director of athletics William Bingham scheduled an opening game … 44-0 drubbing that put a half-dozen Crimson players out of commission—was widely seen as giving Ivy League football …
Issue: November-December 2013
Bringing the Stars to Light
… have developed a television series about the Harvard Computers, a team of women who mapped the night sky while working at the … twentieth centuries. The women analyzed photographic plates of the stars, and across the years they helped uncover …