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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 …
Football 2021: Harvard 30, Lafayette 3
… On Saturday at the Stadium , in a stress-free tune-up for the heavyweight … Beats Yale 29-29.” ) This year, however, tie games are off the table. There will be victors…and there might be … not been in 2021. The Tigers and the Big Green are scoring machines. On Saturday against Brown, Princeton quarterback …
The Men Who Can’t Be Saved
… ‘‘Everyday Briefs for the Everyday Hero.” This advertising tagline for … underwear won an industry award, making it Seth Taranoff’s greatest achievement, one he is certain is the first … wasn’t easy. But Purkert’s ability to do so didn’t surprise Boylston professor of oratory and rhetoric Jorie …
Issue: September-October 2023
Government and Medical Schools Pursue Cost Cutting
… internal guidance on reducing costs and budgets in light of current economic circumstances and the sharply decreased value of the University endowment . … mix. Ellwood noted that the school expects applications to rise, tuition to be relatively level, and enrollments to …
Wolffs on the Diamond
… Father-son parallels aren’t rare, but Rick Wolff ’73 and John Wolff ’06 have followed the same course into professional baseball with remarkable precision. Both are … good hitting, good speed, and good hands. Anybody surprised? ~ Craig Lambert … Father-son parallels aren’t rare, …
Issue: May-June 2006
Who Belongs at Harvard?
… The harry elkins widener Memorial Library houses 3.5 million … limestone chambers. It is the largest university repository of books and manuscripts in the world, and it sits in the middle of Harvard Yard, where it serves as the sweeping backdrop …
Issue: January-February 2019
Yearning for an Upswing
… Rereading, while in self-imposed quarantine, the jittery U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos about the America of 100 years ago—a cynical, fractious, increasingly … rich, the powerful, and the media—produces a jarring sense of recognition. It is always disturbing to realize that …
Issue: November-December 2020
Richard Saul Wurman: Seek Opposites
… Some of the most creative , productive people in the world—such as … Wurman during his Class Day speech at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) on May 29. Wurman added himself to that … the opposites.” He reported loving television and has “two machines” at his home in Newport, Rhode Island, that record …
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 …
Radical Reviewing
… In 1979 , a voice on the radio attracted the attention of George Scialabba ’69. … persuasive, politically astute,” he recalls. “I was surprised to hear it was Noam Chomsky, whom I knew only as a …
Issue: November-December 2013
Dirt Flies
… Construction is proceeding rapidly at the commercial enterprise research campus in Allston , where a hotel and apartment and office/laboratory towers (above) will rise alongside a …
Issue: May-June 2024
The Faculty Weighs In, circa 1899
… Whether a new millennium and century have arrived or … it pass—Dean Jeremy R. Knowles made the last Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting of 1999, held on December 14 in University Hall, an occasion …
Engineering a School’s Future
… One hundred days into his new position as dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and … cohort of professors and tenure-track faculty members has risen nearly 80 percent in the past two decades, to 85 this …
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Issue: January-February 2016
Young Blood: A Scientific Quest for a Fountain of Youth
… Aging in the blood system can be reversed, Amy Wagers, an associate professor of stem-cell and regenerative biology, reports in the …