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The Market for News
… Imagine that the Labor Department releases new statistics that show the … under the headline RECESSION FEARS GROW , with a photograph of a long line of people in Detroit waiting to receive unemployment …
Issue: January-February 2006
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… The iconographic device serving as the headline for this column means “Ten Thousand Men of Harvard.” In the words of the beloved fight song, they want victory today. The …
Issue: September-October 2014
An Opening-of-Year Conversation with Drew Faust
… In a conversation to open the new academic year, President Drew Faust spoke at Sanders … Prize-winning New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof ’82 (who is also a current member of the University’s Board of Overseers). They touched on …
The Case for Cultural Appropriation
… encyclopedia or a textbook—a massive tome that will cover the entire history of human culture. Puchner, Wien professor of drama and of English and comparative literature, …
Issue: March-April 2023
Fighting the Free Radicals
… Rust never sleeps. Neither do its chemical cousins, the so-called "reactive oxygen … you take, oxidizing substances penetrate this line of defense. In human cells, these agents slip through the … net about 10 million times a day. Under this kind of attack, what's a poor strand of human DNA to do? In fact, …
Harvard Class of ’18 Yield Remains 82 Percent
… Harvard College announced today that nearly 82 percent of the 2,023 candidates offered admission to the class of 2018 had accepted—meaning …
Much Bigger Than the Police
… at present, is trapped in an intractable dilemma caused by the gap between a just society and the one we inhabit,” said Harvard political theorist Brandon Terry, leading off a Radcliffe Institute online conversation Monday … policing and protest. His sentiment set the tone. For much of the next hour, Terry and two other speakers—Princeton …
Endowment Outlook: Less Robust Results?
… financial managers this month will begin reporting their endowments’ investment results for fiscal year 2012, … from the sharp losses incurred during the financial crises of late 2008 and early 2009—will not be repeated in the most …
Reflecting on “The Great War at 100”
… Calling it “an abyss of blood and darkness,” Henry James responded bleakly to the First World War, said historian and Harvard president Drew Faust. It disabused the novelist of his optimism about “the whole long age during which we …
Get Rid of It
… Get Rid of It Stay focused on these top 10 tips for selling, bartering, or giving away … the same clothes over and over, usually only a fraction of their wardrobes.) 3) When evaluating that ultra-deluxe …
Issue: July-August 2012
News from the HAA
… In Honored Company The Harvard Medals awarded annually since 1986 by the … I. Kane '53--at the HAA's annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. As a member of the Board of Overseers … Harvey '71, M.B.A. '74. Baltimore. Chair and CEO, The Enterprise Foundation. Barbara J. Wu, Ph.D. '81; A.B. '75 Smith …
Off the Shelf
… As the Future Catches You: How Genomics and Other Forces Are … Wealth, by Juan Enriquez '81, M.B.A. '86, IAF '97, director of the Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business School … half a page. "The dominant language...and economic driver...of this century...is going to be GENETICS. Those who remain …
Issue: January-February 2002
From Literature to the Lab
… to discover that his initial inclination (medicine) was the right one. In The Art and Politics of Science (W.W. Norton, $24.95), he traces a career that … 2003, page 48), and then to the National Institutes of Health and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. …
Issue: March-April 2009
Sexy Struts
… Start with a stance that points the heel of one foot toward the middle of the other. Stand … Interest in “hot fun” as well as hot clothes seems on the rise at Harvard. Katiti Kirondé ’79, a senior designer at an …
Issue: May-June 2007
Street-level Ballet
… Unlike teaching or medicine, the arts don’t offer an obvious mechanism for community … Afro-Brazilian) educated at San Francisco’s School of the Arts, had long hoped to find a way to combine dance …
Issue: May-June 2011