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Debating Diversity
… Amid widely publicized student protests on campuses around the country in the last year and a half, many of them animated by concerns about racial and class … Harvard has had its own—sometimes quieter—upwelling of activism. The cadence of campus protests has gained …
Issue: March-April 2016
When Harvard Shot 10 of 72
… Two days before the Crimson meet Vanderbilt in the NCAA basketball … Ryan plumbed the newspaper’s archives for accounts of the 1946 team’s record and performance , the only prior … game. Globe columnist Jerry Nason characterized the level of competition thus: “New England basketball is generally …
A Place Like Home
… died in 1930 and left to Harvard Rembrandt's Portrait of an Old Man , a Franz Hals, a Rubens, a Holy Family by Murillo, a small El Greco, and about 15 other paintings, as well as sculptures, furniture, pottery, … by Jim Harrison Aaron and Nettie Naumburg had one of the great New York apartments—a 14-room, …
Issue: November-December 2002
The Midlife Calm
… move to California with a woman notably younger than you in the passenger seat. You are having a midlife crisis. We've … funk in their middle years and react dramatically; it's one of those awkward passages that happen to humans, we're told. … men and women. "We find no evidence," says Kessler, "that crises occur more frequently in midlife than at any other …
Off the Shelf
… Life, by Laurence Bergreen '72 (Broadway Books, $30). In the beginning, writes Bergreen, Armstrong was "only a sound, a strange blend of happy cacophony and tormented caterwauling....Duke Ellington said of his first exposure to the sound, 'Nobody had ever heard …
Disrupted Lives
… The sheriffs announced their arrival with a loud knock. If … with young relatives, the children enjoying the last days of summer break. Then the eviction squad arrived: two … everything on the curb. The eviction did not come as a surprise—Shaw and Allen had begun packing, and the living room …
Issue: January-February 2014
Closed Doors
… Universities customarily are open places. There is security where required (dorms, labs, libraries and … to the institutions’ openness: to discourse, the exchange of ideas, and the serendipitous meetings that pull back the … and engaging; persuading; and being persuaded—is on the rise on issues internal to the University. To cite a few: • …
Issue: March-April 2020
Lives Glimpsed through Passports
… Tiny, colorful toddlers’ shoes; a worn copy of Cuentos de Magon, a staple of Costa Rican literature; snapshots of a woman caught mid-embrace with her husband; and in the midst of it all, a tiny yellow and blue document—a …
The Week’s Events
… Bok, Three Hundredth Anniversary University Research Professor and former Harvard president. Sanders Theatre. Baccalaureate Service for the Class of 2012, at 2, Memorial Church, followed by class picture, …
Issue: May-June 2012
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
Unfinished Business
… The End of any administration is an occasion to reflect upon … first phase of the otherwise privately developed enterprise research campus (ERC), entrusted to Tishman Speyer. … Interest rates and Boston construction costs continue to rise; there is plenty of vacant office space downtown and …
Issue: May-June 2023
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
Dispatches from the Front
… rings in Baghdad, a satellite trick that momentarily closes the distance between New York and the Iraqi capital—or … Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, M.B.A. '66, former head of the Coalition Provisional Authority ~ Sara Houghteling … her fifteenth reunion, her Harvard classmates expressed surprise at her pursuit of a military career because "We all …
Issue: September-October 2004
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 …
"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