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The Animals’ Kingdom
… Fluffy the cat lounges beside a campfire, licking herself on a … White founded the farm 20 years ago and depends on a crew of devoted volunteers, adults and teenagers, to keep it open … to get to know animals, this is the place to do it.” Dozens of cats roam the grounds, while goats, mini-horses, rabbits, …
Issue: July-August 2016
Harvard Kennedy School Dean Elmendorf to Step Down
… Douglas W. Elmendorf , dean of the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) since January 2016 , … faculty. His expertise may be much in demand, as concerns rise about the size of the federal deficit and debt, and the …
Harvard’s South Africa Internships
… for "educational programs to assist black South Africans." The decision to create both the fund and a Committee on … it was seen as a rush attempt to mitigate renewed criticism of Harvard's $400 million investment in companies that do … or materials, Silvers says. Even obsolete photocopying machines, outdated microcomputers, and used books would be …
Off the Shelf
… The Case for Big Government , by Jeff Madrick, M.B.A. ’71 (Princeton, $22.95). The editor of Challenge argues that “active and sizable government has … Institution senior fellow, are but the leading edge of robotic conflict in the twenty-first century. Postcards …
Issue: March-April 2009
America’s Riven Politics
… Osnos ’98, who reported on a changing People’s Republic of China for The New Yorker , was struck by the changes in the United … and technological: the loss of small-town newspapers, the rise of social media, and the resulting shift of political …
The Week's Events
… The rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, which … addresses by President Drew Faust and U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu. For further details and updates, visit www.harvardmagazine.com or …
Issue: May-June 2009
Baking Sourdough Bread Is a Survival Instinct
… project for Psychology 15 (“Social Psychology”) during the spring 2020 semester, he went not to his professor for advice, but to his grandmother. It wasn’t a bad … more commercial. When lockdowns began and deaths began to rise, Greenfield, 80, noticed that some of her theory’s …
Off the Shelf
… Forgive Us Our Debts: The Intergenerational Dangers of Fiscal Irresponsibility , … L. Yarrow, M.P.A. ’94 (Yale, $25). “[D]espite centuries of distaste for debt,” the United States government will owe …
Issue: September-October 2008
In the Limelight
… An editorial in today’s New York Times lamenting the larger impact of the Supreme Court’s “misguided [ Citizens United ] … unfettered corporate campaign donations” focuses most of its attention on freshman Republican representative …
Off the Shelf
… ’79 (PublicAffairs, $26.95). No matter who is elected, the president must contend with those permanently in power. … than the late Marjorie Williams, as this second collection of her work, edited by her husband, Timothy Noah ’80, … role in sustaining support for the artistic enterprise. The Gridlock Economy , by Michael Heller ’84 (Basic …
Issue: November-December 2008
A Lone Star Saga
… “The best I can describe it,” says Justin Deabler, of the … his family’s history, and his own identity—eventually gave rise to Lone Stars , a sprawling and powerful family epic …
Issue: March-April 2021
Make the Arsenal Usable
… In Henry Kissinger and the American Century (Harvard University Press, $27.95), … why Henry Kissinger ’50, Ph.D. ’54, did what he did. Some of his motivations originated at Harvard, uneasy home to the … Cold Warrior from 1947 to 1968—first as a student, then a professor—from which intellectual citadel he cultivated …
Issue: September-October 2007
Permission to Know
… Last summer, during my third week of senior-thesis fieldwork in Honolulu, I visited a kalo (taro) patch, … Ka Papa Lo‘i O K ā newai, at the Hawai‘inui ā kea School of Hawaiian Knowledge. Our group had spent only a few …
Issue: November-December 2019
Off the Shelf
… George Feifer ’56 (Smithsonian Books, $25.95). Commodore Matthew Perry, with his four American warships, pried open a sovereign country in the name of free trade. Among the unintended consequences of that wallop to Japanese self-esteem, Feifer argues, was …
Issue: March-April 2007
The Expos Problem
… Janet Rosenbaum '98 was one of the most successful students of her year in the College's … good and bad writing. Dudley Hershbach recalls his surprise at learning that one of his teaching fellows instructed …