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Anatomy of the Euro Crisis
… “Ten years into its existence, the Euro is a resounding success. The single currency has become a symbol of Europe, considered by Euro-area citizens to be among the … capacities for continuous innovation—enabling German enterprises to compete globally on quality as well as price. An …
Issue: July-August 2013
The Language of Movement
… I n the finale of the Netflix series Living with Yourself, Paul … gets into a fight with himself—or, rather, with a clone of himself. That new-and-improved version has spent the … creators turned to Kuperman Brothers—the eponymous enterprise of Rick ’11 and Jeff: choreographers and directors with …
Issue: January-February 2020
The Saga of a Great Headline
… Two mornings after the fact, the Crimson 's headline made the 1968 match-up the … only one little word, had brilliantly captured the essence of the Harvard football team's legendary comeback (16 points … headline in Crimson history, its author surely spoken of reverently through the generations, perhaps even honored …
Remembering Tom Lehrer
… The passing of Tom Lehrer ’47, A.M. ’47, G ’66 on July 26 at the age of 97 was noted this week in The Washington Post , The New …
Of Dumplings, Bok Choy, and the Politics of Emoji
… about upcoming dinner plans. Lee sent over a picture of dumplings, and Lu went to her iPhone’s emoji keyboard to … digital icon. None existed. For most people, this kind of omission would inspire minor annoyance but little, if … activist,” co-founder of Emojination, and vice-chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee—a group that helps decide …
Stories of the Voiceless
… The initiative for the science of the human past was a dream made possible when, in 2002, Goelet professor of medieval history Michael McCormick won a $1.5 …
Issue: July-August 2009
The Future of Theater
… Recently, actor John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, was offered the chance (“for buckets of money”) to take over the lead role in an established …
Issue: January-February 2012
The Thwarts of Last Resort
… extinguishers and airline safety cards, lifeboats remind us of a reality we prefer to ignore; on a tropical cruise, we tune out the lifeboat drill. Yet these simple, old-fashioned boats … have changed hardly at all; they're a standard feature of ocean travel that, when properly deployed, have indeed …
Issue: July-August 2004
Lasting Impressions
… Eliot '10 had his shoes not shined but boned, polished with the downy side of the femur of an elk or deer, a tool of atavistic … merger in which a new science and engineering campus would rise across the Charles River, where the business school is …
On the Medicalization of Our Culture
… There are perhaps few academic topics of equal interest to scholars of history, law, anthropology, neuroscience, and literature. …
Enlarging the Allston Enterprise Zone
… The hotel, conference center, labs and residences that will … Planning and Development Agency—detailing the first phase of construction, and sketching in a successor phase for …
The Business of Lies
… “We can’t go on together / With suspicious minds,” Elvis crooned in ’68—though … later, if you feel so inclined, you can graft the title of Joseph Finder’s new thriller Guilty Minds onto the lyrics without seriously neutering the themes of either work. Both guilty minds and suspicious minds hurt …
Issue: September-October 2016
Yesterday's News
… 1919 The Endowment Fund Committee notes that faculty members have … set in 1905 [instructors earn $1,200-$1,500, assistant professors $2,500-$3,000, full professors $4,000-$5,500]. The … opens for business, complete with snack bar, washing machines, and one refrigerator and storage room per suite. …
Issue: September-October 2014
School of Public Health Graduates Hear Blunt Critiques of Trump
… Less than a week after a devastating wave of federal funding cuts at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), which saw more than 130 researchers …
Seeing Methane from Space
… a major climate change challenge: targeting emissions of methane, a gas with a much shorter lifespan in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide but 80 times the warming … for the gas, researchers spanning Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Harvard-Smithsonian …