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In Danielle Allen’s “Cuz,” Caught Between Two Justice Systems
… Conant University Professor Danielle Allen remembers sitting in a class on Athenian democracy while she was an undergraduate at … comes out of our underlying worries.” The same worry gave rise, in a much more intimate way, to Allen’s new book, Cuz: …
The Harvard Scene
… EXHIBITIONS. At the Fogg, About Face: Artists' Portraits in Photography … opens on July 19. Continuing exhibits include Fragments of Antiquity: Drawing upon Greek Vases ; The Art of Identity: African Sculpture from the Teel Collection; …
"Harvard Can Change the World"
… Lawrence H. Summers met with Harvard Magazine at the president’s office in Massachusetts Hall on June 22. Edited excerpts of the conversation follow. Harvard Magazine : When you were …
Issue: September-October 2006
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
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
A Milestone for the Designated Driver
… The "designated driver" has turned 21—and during that period, the number of alcohol-related traffic fatalities has fallen from about … dean for public and community affairs at Harvard School of Public Health. Winsten played a major role in introducing …
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 Dear, Gentle, Saintly Mark Twain
… Just short of 60 and deeply in debt because of his failed publishing firm, Samuel Clemens set out from … retraced Clemens's route as part of his research for Around the World with Mark Twain (Arcade Publishing, $27.95). It is …
Honoris Causa
… degrees at Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced the honorands, and President Drew Faust read the citations, … an honorary degree had also been voted to former Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Jeremy R. Knowles, who died on … and algorithmic serve as source code in the quest to make machines think. Photograph by Stu Rosner Janet D. Rowley. …
Issue: July-August 2008
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 …
Endowment Managers’ Pay Reported—Sort Of
… The University released its tax return for nonprofit … Management Company's (HMC) president and chief executive officer, Jane L. Mendillo, and its highest-paid portfolio …
From the Archives: Harvard’s Womanless History
… who retired last summer as 300 th Anniversary University Professor, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize (historians’ highest honor) for A Midwife’s Tale …
The Coming Eldercare Tsunami
… T wenty years from now, Japan will become the first society in the world in which more than 40 percent of the population will be older than 65. China, after 36 years of a “one-child policy,” will soon follow. There the …
Issue: January-February 2020
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 …
Could College Be Free?
… G etting ahead— or getting by—is increasingly difficult in the United States without a college degree. The demand for … an all-time high, but so is the price tag. David Deming—professor of public policy at the Kennedy School and professor … despite being highly subsidized by taxpayers . “The rise of for-profit colleges has, in some ways, been caused …
Issue: January-February 2020