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COVID-19 Common Sense
… A November 17 news briefing by Harvard and other Boston area experts on the current state of COVID-19 in the United States began with a “weather … report:” Case data no longer reflect the intensity of the pandemic, said Harvard Medical School (HMS) assistant …
Harvard's Annual Financial Report Fully Details 2009 Losses
… Updated The Harvard University Financial Report for fiscal year 2009 … , published October 16, contains more than the usual amount of dramatic material, headlined by the $11-billion loss of … it is safe to estimate that the added interest expense will rise by an additional amount of the same magnitude—another …
Harvard Announces Salary, Hiring Freezes and Other Spending Cuts
… Breaking News: In a message headlined “Economic Impact of COVID-19,” President Lawrence S. Bacow—joined by Provost … and Executive Vice President Katie Lapp—just notified the community that “we need to take some actions immediately … workers continue to be paid .) FAS is a $1.6 billion enterprise, but it operates on tight enough margins that the …
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 …
Harvard Goes Remote for January Term as Pandemic Intensifies
… 18, that Harvard will shift to remote operations during the January term (“wintersession”), because of rapidly rising COVID-19 cases. In a letter from the … activities to remote status, was prompted by “the rapid rise in COVID-19 cases locally and across the country, as …
Off the Shelf
… Press, $22.95). Clear, crisp, and engaging, this overview of Western racism is by the Robinson professor of United States history and codirector of the …
Issue: September-October 2002
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
Conjuring the Cosmos
… How did this story begin? Just after the Big Bang, the universe was “so smooth it was almost … when there was “no structure, no chemistry, no possibility of chemistry.” How then did it become the “heterogeneous” mix of planets, stars, galaxies, and filamentous structures …
Issue: May-June 2013
What Ails the Academy?
… From the perspective of Harvard Yard—or Yale’s Old Campus, … mandate to become “an adaptive knowledge enterprise in real time and at scale”—especially given its … Coursera is venture-funded as a for-profit enterprise, and the Harvard-MIT edX online venture is certainly …
Issue: November-December 2015
The American Exception
… Historian R.H. Tawney famously explored the ties between Protestantism and economic development in Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926). Now, nearly a century later, in a new …
Issue: January-February 2021
Tying the Knot
… and expectant onlookers, David Lambert '98 and I performed the undergraduate unspeakable: we committed matrimony. Most of the guests had witnessed the genesis of our love during our first year, or had watched it grow …
The Aloian Memorial Scholars
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has awarded Jorge Campos ’21, of Los Angeles, and Reeda Iqbal ’21, of Brentwood, New York, the 2020 David and Mimi Aloian …
Issue: November-December 2020
John Chilembwe
… American-trained Baptist preacher attempted bravely, in the manner of John Brown at Harper's Ferry, to strike a strong blow … Quotations in the text are from his 1965 book The Rise of Nationalism in Central Africa and his 1967 edition …
Issue: March-April 2005
A Conversation with Mia Alvar ’00
… short story by Mia Alvar ’00. Soon enough, he learns—as all the characters of her book, In The Country, do—that love costs. Alvar’s … around who Ninoy Aquino was, his assassination, and the rise of the opposition movement, tend to become very …
News from the HAA
… Harvard Medalists Three alumni received the Harvard Medal and were publicly honored for their … For Robert J. Glaser, S.B. '40, M.D. '43, a former professor at Harvard Medical School, former dean of the … Harwich, Mass. Executive director, Center for Women & Enterprise. Giving, Harvard-wide Robert G. Stone Photograph by …
Issue: July-August 2003