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Women in a Woeful World
… for him to discipline her. Sharifa Bibi, Pakistan H alf the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women … Prize-winning husband-and-wife journalists Nicholas D. Kristof ’82 and Sheryl WuDunn, M.B.A. ’86, is more than just … its readers to take action to solve it. The book—a series of essays and anecdotes that work together—forms an argument …
Issue: September-October 2009
“A Sense of Belonging”
… will have something else to celebrate before its eightieth: the largest renovation project in its history. Though a plan … simmering, the project’s timing was spurred by a donation of both books and money from Peter J. Solomon ’60, M.B.A. ’63, chairman and founder of the eponymous investment-banking firm. The proposed …
Issue: May-June 2019
Censuring the Census
… The 1890 U.S. census asked blacks to identify their status … to discriminate against particular groups—the number of "quadroons" and "octoroons," for example, could be used … loom large in the census. The eight-question short form of the 2000 census, sent to all households, offered as …
Issue: March-April 2003
Leading Their Class
… The marshals of the class of 2010 are (clockwise from top left): Shiv …
Issue: July-August 2010
The '01 Scholars
… no American Rhodes Scholarships this year, but dodged the null set with the selection of economics concentrator Tegan S. Shohet ’01 (below), of Mather House and Toronto, for a Canadian Rhodes. …
Herbie Hancock Is Harvard’s 2014 Norton Professor of Poetry
… jazz musician and composer Herbie Hancock will be the University’s 2014 Norton Professor of Poetry, giving six lectures this spring on topics that …
Taking the Lead
… Epstein Photograph by Jim Harrison Although rain washed out the traditional alumni parade, Marion Coppelman Epstein '24, of Boston, and Philip Keene '25, S.M. '40, of Middletown, Connecticut, the two oldest alumni present, …
Issue: July-August 2002
International Student Ban Casts a Shadow on Harvard Commencement
… On the first day of activities for Harvard’s 2025 Commencement ceremonies, the steps of Widener Library were awash with color. In knee-high …
Pictures of an Exhibition
… The “Juggling the Middle Ages” exhibition, now open at … Washington, D.C. (through February 28), plumbs the history of a medieval tale of a juggler’s devotion to the Virgin Mary; its rediscovery …
Of Mice and Mating
… provide intense parental care, which appears to influence their offspring’s mating preferences later in life. In recent … scientists have proposed this “sexual imprinting” as one of the main mechanisms that drive explosive speciation …
Issue: March-April 2018
Harvard Headlines: Fiction by E.O. Wilson, David Cutler on Healthcare, and More
… The New Yorker in recent weeks has been full of items with … career in evolutionary biology, the story chronicles the rise and fall of an ant colony, and it somehow manages to …
The Movement to Open Up Syllabi
… Syllabi are generally most relevant during the early weeks of the semester, when students are making … tend to be forgotten—tossed away or crumpled at the bottom of backpacks, pulled out only when students need to double …
“The Man Thinking Club”
… Anne Fadiman '74, who becomes editor of The American Scholar at the end of this year, was the 1997 Phi Beta Kappa orator. She spoke …
College Admits 13.4 Percent of Early-Action Applicants
… The College has admitted 13.4 percent of early-action applicants to the class of 2023, down slightly from 14.5 percent admitted from the …
"...In My Mind I Am Perplexed"
… The Civil War transformed American society and institutions. It brought about the formal end of slavery (but not of racial discrimination). It empowered … or an ironic anger that may well have shocked and surprised his wife, Isaac Hadden of New York invited her to join …
Issue: January-February 2008