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The Beauty of Beans
… ’89, grew up in a close-knit, highly religious community in the south Texas border town of McAllen, when it was at least 80 percent Mexican … even on the playground, you were sent to the principal’s office.” She picked up the language by third grade, loved to …
Issue: January-February 2006
Sharing the Wealth
… Distributions from the endowment now make up the largest source of Harvard’s operating revenues: $855 million, or 31 percent … fiscal years 2008 through 2010. The base distribution would rise 4 percent annually; the incremental distribution would …
Issue: March-April 2006
The Challenge of Plagiarism
… Harvard College has only one course required of every student: “Expository Writing.” Better known simply as “Expos,” the class urges freshmen to “concentrate directly on the craft of composing and revising their ideas.” Among the skills to …
Issue: July-August 2006
Coastal Banks Shed Risky Mortgages—Putting the Financial System at Risk
… Warming oceans—and the storms and rising sea levels they bring—will have their most severe impact on the southeastern shoreline of the United States, from the Texas Gulf Coast up to the … and Jesse Keenan on how lenders are preparing for sea level rise in coastal regions of the American South—a reaction …
“The Promise of This New Presidency”
… Claudine Gay spent part of the last day of summer and the first day of the fall … black colleges and universities). But then there was a surprise: as the president’s party entered, Veronica Leahy ’23 …
“The Value of Noticing”
… “You have stood up and stood out,” President Drew Faust told the graduating seniors of 2017 in the opening frame of her May 23 Baccalaureate address. “The value of being …
Echoes of the Central Valley
… Young fiction writers are often encouraged to “write what you know.” That often yields stories that seem overly autobiographical, yet juiced by primary experience. The work is especially moving when the writer is talented …
Issue: May-June 2011
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
The Applied Wisdom of the Heartland
… In their very origins, public institutions like the University of Michigan (UM), and their land-grant cousins, are perhaps … as a first responder,” addressing priorities as they arise on the ground. In that context, he said, bringing the …
On the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Emergency
… medicine—caring for climbers with altitude sickness in the Himalayas or victims of the tsunami disaster in Japan— Stuart Harris is a … those on the front lines as the number of coronavirus cases rises over the coming days and weeks. On Monday, the same …
A Look at "The Language of Color"
… Visit the Harvard Museum of Natural History via video for a tour of its new exhibition, The Language of Color, introduced by …
Issue: November-December 2008
The Art of the Quilt
… In the summer of 1971, visitors to the Whitney Museum of … look at, and say, ‘That’s pretty nice.’ ” … Fabric art that rises from mattresses to museum walls … Fabric art that rises from mattresses to museum walls … 44655 … Quilts are …
Issue: May-June 2014
“Nothing rankles more than the feeling of injustice”
… Reginald Heber Smith’s Justice and the Poor is in the library of Harvard Law School’s Legal Services Center, in the … a Project on Predatory Student Lending, in response to the rise of for-profit higher education and the resultant scams. …
Issue: November-December 2017
Off the Shelf
… The Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health, by Ellen J. Langer, professor of psychology (Ballantine, $28). The author … of the problems that concern Michèle Lamont in terms of crises afflicting liberal democracy, a professor of law and …
Issue: September-October 2023
The Kindness of a City
… The weekend before the Boston Marathon the air in the city … in tow, ready to run in the most famous and respected of all marathon courses. But this isn’t just about the … is really a 26.2-mile-long block-party filled with hundreds of thousands of spectators, young and old alike, simply out …