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That Championship Season
… The Harvard Rugby Football Club team is not like any other … seasonal pig roasts, a tribal retreat evoking both the Lord of the Flies and Animal House . Self-governed, they operate with a kind of punk-rock anarchistic do-it-yourself edginess that even …
The Empress of Domesticity
… Displaying humor and an insatiable curiousity about the world, Martha Stewart charmed a Sanders Theatre … "Few people's names have become adjectives," said dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis in his upbeat introduction of Martha Stewart to an enthusiastic Sanders Theatre crowd. …
The New Gender Gaps
… going to college, but his grades weren’t good enough for the schools he was interested in, he says. The summer before his senior year of high school, he interned at a water purification company … most men’s real wages have fallen, while most women’s have risen , and an increasing share of “prime-age men”—those …
Issue: May-June 2025
“Empires of the Mind”
… In keeping with this Commencement's international theme, President Neil L. Rudenstine's afternoon address … website. We are an American university. Indeed, one of the reasons that students and scholars come to Harvard … for bridging the inevitable gaps that so often arise in international affairs. The final point I want to …
The Rawlsian Revolution
… students and graduates will remember his 1971 work A Theory of Justice, mandatory reading in Bass professor of … to neoliberalism, the loose concept that describes the rise of privatization, austerity, and deregulation all over …
Issue: September-October 2019
“Attacking the Concept of Debt”
… were being withdrawn directly from his bank account. If the balance was short—for instance, if Jones hadn’t managed … “It was stressing me the hell out.” Along with millions of other Americans, Jones had fallen prey to the for-profit … not be able to repay their debts. Federal student loans comprise most of the income of these proprietary colleges; from …
From the Archives: The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead
… anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis ’75, Ph.D. ’86, then a graduate student, went to Haiti at the recommendation of his mentor, Jeffrey professor of biology Richard Evans … imagination. Analysis of the powder produced another surprise. “When I went down to Haiti originally,” says Davis, …
The Law of Dissimilars
… Humans have a natural propensity to distrust the “other.” The classic social-psychology experiment in … an advantage in promoting not simply tolerance but liking of other groups? This question has fueled a multilayered … is not the opposite of prejudice. When objective conflicts arise, people are likely to slip back to their adversarial …
Issue: January-February 2006
50 Years of Social Studies
… In 1960, the idea that Harvard undergraduates could concentrate in a … science, sociology, history, and philosophy, instead of choosing just one of those disciplines, was … she deemed “intimate ethnography,” which has given rise to studies such as ethnographies of kidney dialysis …
The Allure of the Bad Boy
… The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American … (Houghton Mifflin, $28), is a delightful group biography of Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody, in many ways … a writer, publisher, and translator, the founder of kindergartens in America, and the model for Miss Birdseye …
Issue: May-June 2005
Quantum Leaps
… In the fall of 2009, between matinée and evening performances … House , Merritt Moore ’11 would decompress in the basement of Harvard’s Jefferson Laboratory. “I’d take off the tutu … and quantum physicist Merritt Moore ’11 connects humans and machines. … Ballerina and quantum physicist Merritt Moore …
Issue: May-June 2024
Nieman Foundation Leader Departs
… will step down July 1, ending a 14-year tenure as head of the University-housed journalism organization. A current … disruption, including the move from print to digital, the rise of mis- and disinformation, the growth of social media …
In the Black
… has enabled us to move forward” on priorities such as the new science complex in Allston, renovation of the Fogg Art Museum, and financial aid for lower- and … Shore said, Harvard’s net borrowings will continue to rise, in keeping with the capital plan. Endowment income …
Issue: November-December 2008
Trafficking in Chance
… The dozens of ATM machines lining the entrances to the Mohegan Sun casino … slot displays that allow wagers and blood-alcohol levels to rise together. Slot machines are the profit centers of …
Issue: July-August 2002
Revenge of the Nerds?
… The scene is reminiscent of something you might see at a zoo. Inside the Science Center, passing students are crowding in front of the large glass windows of the Greenhouse Cafe, eager to …