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The Sports Critic
… in her head, teasing out disparate threads and weaving them into a cohesive narrative. “Sometimes it will seem a … had originally planned to write about the novel experience of watching baseball with no fans: the eerie … What’s the narrative overlay?’” she says. “I would sort of be able to thread that. And instead I’m literally trying …
Issue: November-December 2020
The University in “Contentious Times”
… Harvard’s alma mater, in 1632), on January 25 addressed the challenge of maintaining universities as places for honest, thoughtful … to the effect that freedom is not “a once-and-for-all enterprise. It is the constant renewal, reformation, and extension …
The Deadliest Virus
… Bird flu (H5N1) has receded from international headlines for the moment, as few human cases of the deadly virus have been reported this year. But when … recently created an even more transmissible strain of the virus in a laboratory for research purposes, they …
Issue: March-April 2013
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 …
Solzhenitsyn in My Inbox
… It was in Cyrillic. My first thought was spam…delete. Then I read the message, in flawless English: Dear Ms. … an article about his speech. I never doubted that it had profoundly influenced the course of my life, but was it possible that I had made an impact …
The Forty-Year Fight
… program,” says Itzel Vasquez-Rodriguez ’17. She dreamed of pursuing Chicano studies in college, and says she was … learn that Harvard not only doesn’t have Chicano studies, they don’t even have an ethnic-studies department!” She … students in 1968. These protests led to the establishment of such programs at most schools in the UC system, and …
The Straight Skinny on String (Theory)
… Courtesy WGBH Physicists' quest for the "theory of everything," now focused on string theory, poses unusual problems of imagination and visualization, even for specialists. …
Issue: November-December 2003
The Tiger Roars
… Princeton is not Harvard. Smaller, more intimate, it offers superb undergraduate and doctoral education in the liberal arts and engineering and applied sciences, without the huge professional schools (business, law, medicine) that shine so …
Issue: May-June 2016
"Two Radically Different Worlds"
… In his annual dean’s report, released to colleagues for the year’s second Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on October 27, Michael D. … year 2008 to $137.2 million last year; they are expected to rise some $10 million more this year, presumably expanding …
Goldie Named Director of Harvard Institute for Global Health
… Sue J. Goldie , Lee professor of public health and director of the Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard School …
“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
Life’s Blueprints
… How is it that every human cell contains the blueprint for an entire person? That a single cell, … organic system that is a human life? Describing the journey of scientific discovery into how that process unfolds, driven by a six-foot-long strand of DNA that is replicated and packed into every cell, is the …
Issue: September-October 2023
The Unruly Academy
… L. Rudenstine, Ph.D. ’64, a “recently minted assistant professor,” found himself walking by Mallinckrodt Hall, where a crowd of students had blocked the entry to impede the work of a Dow Chemical Company … of a piece with his worldview and character. It is no surprise that he mounts a vigorous, ringing reaffirmation of …
Issue: March-April 2025
"The Fires": How Mathematical Modeling Nearly Burned Down New York
… For a first book , it has quite a title. The Fires: How A Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City—and Determined the Future of Cities is the story of how, in the 1970s, New York’s …
Bacteria Are the Cake
… Andrew H. Knoll, Ph.D. '77, Fisher professor of natural history, is a paleontologist who integrates … life. In his accessible new book, Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth …
Issue: September-October 2003