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Solving the Social Sciences’ Hard Problems
… Across all the disciplines of the social sciences—economics, history, … problems that need solving, and which are most worthy of time spent working on a solution? Scholars from a range …
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 …
All about the Details
… If you arrived early Saturday morning at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) on Presidents' Day weekend, you might have been surprised at the hordes of well-dressed students milling about, most lugging …
Issue: March-April 2002
Masauko Chipembere
… , Malawi’s premier nationalist, came to Harvard in the early 1970s as an exile, to write his autobiography and the biography of a freedom struggle in Africa that had not been concluded. Although the architect of Malawi’s 1964 independence, he had been unceremoniously …
Issue: May-June 2010
Allston Development Director Departs—Updated
… Christopher M. Gordon, who joined the University in 2005 to direct accelerated development of the University’s planned campus growth in Allston, has … General Hospital complex than anything that might rise at the unfinished Allston science site. The University …
The Humanities Village People
… Rachel Gibian ’15 will spend a considerable part of her summer in the stacks of the Schlesinger and Houghton libraries, … the Program for Research in the Sciences and Engineering (PRISE), the Behavioral Laboratory in the Social Sciences , …
Stirring the Pudding
… Bid farewell to the genteel shabbiness of the Hasty Pudding building on Holyoke Street. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has agreed to acquire the …
Commencement Address, the Genre
… to cartoonist Garry Trudeau, "were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be … sedated." Not always so, believes Peter J. Smith, editor of Onward! 25 Years of Advice, Exhortation, and Inspiration from America's Best …
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 …
Quality Care
… read David Cutler's important new book on how to deal with the nation's most challenging social problem, I kept wanting more. Cutler, professor of economics, provides a needed corrective to … the widely heralded arrival of managed care, led by the rise of HMOs, helped slow the growth of medical costs for a …
Issue: September-October 2004
Under the Bar
… College a cappella groups sing of a lady in red, her beauty ravaged by age and sin, and urge listeners to “let her sleep under the bar.” Now Charlotte Silver gives us a report from under the bar in Charlotte au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood , coming in February from Riverhead …
Issue: January-February 2012
The Networked Student
… The paradox of the technologically sophisticated … connectivity. Independence comes from the portability of cellular phones, pagers, laptop computers, and palm-sized … service providers play host to the plethora of infant enterprises. Thomas Fallows '99 came up with the idea of starting …
“My Time in the Paint”
… for a film on eco-tourism that I would be producing as part of my upcoming postgraduate fellowship. Painfully aware that … began scheduling conversations with journalists from within the Harvard network whom I saw doing work I admired. I was scheduled to speak first with Professor Alfred Guzzetti to discuss his time shooting in …
Harvard in the Olympics
… hear a former Olympic and National Hockey League player use the word “fungible” twice within a few minutes, but C.J. … program on “Harvard in the Olympics” at the Harvard Club of Boston. Just three weeks before the 2006 Torino Winter … included a disquisition on the ancient Olympics by Jones professor of classical Greek literature Gregory Nagy, four …
Carrying a “Heavy Pack”
… “As you know, when you leave Cambridge on Thursday, the pack doesn’t get any lighter,” retired Navy Vice Admiral … at Sanders Theatre, before delivering the oath to the new officers. “You enter into a profession of arms and service,” … book is face down. “To turn that book over, you’ve had to rise to the truth by being open to honest dialogue. You’ve …