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Unnerved by the Urge to Win
… Paul Hoffman ’78 was a child chess prodigy and now, after a … chess, he has started playing again. He has been president of Encyclopaedia Britannica and editor in chief of Discover … and madness. His new book, King’s Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World’s Most Dangerous Game —chess, of …
Issue: November-December 2007
Centennial Medalist Citations
… easy to begin a testimonial for Bruce Alberts with a list of his achievements as an international advocate for science. As head of the National Academy of Sciences, as a special presidential … PhD ’77, fine arts The story of Keith Christiansen’s rise to prominence as one of this country’s most esteemed …
The Benton Gospels
… More than a century and a half ago, the Reverend George Benton, lately an Episcopal missionary on the island of Crete, returned to the United States. In his baggage was … even then. In succeeding decades, the tome moved in and out of private collections until it was acquired last year by …
Issue: March-April 2018
The Battle for Illinois
… note: With a contentious national election approaching, the U.S. Senate race in Illinois between two Harvard Law … convincing a doorkeeper to admit the actual beneficiary of all that attention: state senator Barack Obama, J.D. '91, … Lady who attracted the movie-star whistles, the usually soft-spoken Obama greeted the crowd's cheers with a war whoop …
Issue: July-August 2004
Ivy Madness on the Move
… In late February , the Ivy League announced a pre-determined rotation of campus sites for its basketball tournaments, and the … The Philadelphia Inquirer’ s Mike Jensen wrote: “My view of the Ivy League’s decision to play its postseason …
Centennial Medalists 2015
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who … books on myth, including the highly praised volume The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680–1860 . After a 25-year …
Madeleine Albright Urges Graduates to Look Beyond America’s Borders
… on an unusually warm May afternoon, former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright, LL.D. ’97, called on the Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) more than 500 soon-to-be … as neo-isolationists who allowed tyranny and lawlessness to rise again; or as those who solidified the global triumph of …
Chimpanzees and the Law
… closest living relatives as pets," declared Jane Goodall, the renowned primatologist. "You can buy them on the … She spoke at a symposium on "The Evolving Legal Status of Chimpanzees" cosponsored by Harvard Law School's Student Animal Legal Defense Fund and the nonprofit Chimpanzee Collaboratory; the September conference …
Issue: January-February 2003
Six Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Sciences
… Among the 72 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences are these Harvard faculty members: Gary …
The Moral Case
… Much of the debate over the fate of the Guantánamo detainees has involved legal …
Issue: January-February 2009
The Unlikely Writer
… One Wednesday last April, Atul Gawande was in his office at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, trying to make some … in healthcare spending. He kept getting paged when other physicians thought their patients might need surgery. … on his computer screen. He navigated through digital slices of the patient’s abdomen, squinting at the screen, then …
Issue: September-October 2009
The Campus, Quieted
… If “coronavirus” or “social distancing” becomes the word of the year, Harvard will have had a leg up on the … the virus’s biology, diagnostic tools, and development of vaccines and therapies. (See harvardmag.com/sars2fight - …
Issue: May-June 2020
Take to the Hills
… The Blue Hills Reservation spans more than 7,000 acres, forming a scenic chain of largely unspoiled nature, just south of Boston. It’s the largest state-owned green space that …
Issue: November-December 2016
Toddling Consumers
… Corporate America's pursuit of children has never been so aggressive. With an annual … budget of $15 billion, about 2.5 times more than what they spent in 1992, marketers now bombard kids with ads … million students. In the cafeteria, students see vending machines filled with Coke or Pepsi if one of the soda giants …
Issue: January-February 2005
School Slice: Freshman Seminar
… In a tiny sunlit classroom on the second floor of Harvard’s Morton Prince House, the … instead Franciscus breaks down. He cannot speak. The mother rises to her feet in front of him, and she is the one who …