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Cultural Chaos
… Forty years ago, millions of China’s urban youth rose up in response to the Great Helmsman’s call to “bombard the … top universities, land jobs with top multinational enterprises upon graduation, achieve professional success, and …
Issue: January-February 2007
Feldstein: Why the Government Should Help Homeowners
… The continuing decline in housing prices has economist … calling for government intervention. On the opinion page of yesterday's Washington Post , Feldstein (Baker professor of economics, who soon ends his term as president of …
The Polaroid Moment
… As the business school fosters budding entrepreneurs along Western Avenue, an older-fashioned way of innovating—and the birth of Kendall Square in Cambridge … and Art” (a title taken from Land himself) abounds in surprises. There are the early discoveries of polarizing …
Issue: March-April 2017
Dues to the Past
… MCMLVI masks. For their sixty-fifth reunion, whatever form it may take, members of the College class of 1956 conceived of a custom mask subtly emblazoned with a …
Issue: March-April 2021
Voting Results
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and new elected directors of the … J.D.-M.B.A. ’04, Menlo Park, California. Partner, New Enterprise Associates. Shilla Kim-Parker ’04, M.B.A. ’09, New York …
Issue: July-August 2013
Resolving Inflammation
… Of all the human immune system’s extraordinary capabilities, its … function after an injury or infection is probably the least well understood. The process that resolves … characterized by fever, redness, and swelling. Resolution of inflammation is controlled by a group of molecules …
“Absolutely Beautiful”
… ’33, G ’40, had family ties, extending back to great-grandfather Theophilus Wylie, to Indiana University. But the campus community where he spent nearly all of his life was Cambridge, not Bloomington. The Harvard … studies in experimental psychology and the physiology of perception (stemming from William James and Hugo …
Issue: November-December 2012
“Wonder in the Bewilderness”
… The world’s big problems are often caused by narrow, reductionist solutions. Yet the whole, said Aristotle, is different from the sum of its parts. We need people with vision that crosses …
Issue: September-October 2011
Eye on the Universe
… This fall, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis will pay a final visit to the … back to Earth images that have altered our understanding of the universe. The Hubble helped confirm the existence of … image . Galaxy Cluster Abell 2218. “The arcs in this image arise from background galaxies whose shapes are distorted by …
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Issue: July-August 2008
News in Brief
… M. Garber —named interim president on January 2, 2024, and the University’s thirty-first president (through June 30, … 7. The event was attended by friends, family, members of the governing boards, deans and other University leaders, … 2024, page 20). Building Boom Even as the private enterprise research campus and the University theater and housing …
Issue: March-April 2025
Echo Chamber—and Amplifier
… Poets writing in English have six centuries’ worth of forms at their disposal. During the Renaissance, Shakespeare and … saint,” the intensely psychological Wordsworth of “Surprised by Joy.” And it is revelatory to see, alongside these …
Issue: July-August 2010
The Legal Landscape for Climate Change
… What is the U.S. legal landscape for addressing climate change? Cox professor of law Jody Freeman provided an overview of the dynamics …
Endowment Returns, Endowment Management: Straws in the Wind?
… Company (HMC) has resumed its practice from before the acute financial crisis of late 2008: it will not issue interim updates on … reliance on their endowments to fund operations has risen, the attention paid to endowment investment returns …
Re-View at the Sackler Museum
… On October 30, 2008, loyal magazine donors gathered at the Sackler Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a private viewing of Re-View, an exhibition of the finest and most significant works in the Harvard Art …
The Hajj, Screened Large
… In one stunning shot, we fly just above a caravan of camels--320 camels, to be exact, joined by 660 donkeys, … goats and 500 humans in a vast, winding procession across the desert. At another point, a howling sandstorm makes us want to squeeze our eyes shut. The union of high-tech film hardware with ancient landscapes gives …
Issue: July-August 2009