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The Deficit, Diminished
… Dean Michael D. Smith reported on May 11, at the last regular Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting of the academic year, that the faculty’s unrestricted …
Issue: July-August 2010
Divestment on the Docket
… and November discussions about climate change and whether Harvard should divest any endowment assets invested in fossil-fuel production, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has a formal motion on its agenda … explained in some detail in his remarks at the end of the November meeting). The motion before the faculty …
Vogue Revealed: "The September Issue"
… The new documentary film The September Issue, directed by R. J. Cutler '83, takes viewers into the hallways, offices, and meetings behind Vogue magazine. Cutler, who … (it was nominated for a 1994 Academy Award), shot 300 hours of footage to record his portrait of Vogue and its famously …
The Homelessness Public Health Crisis
… For Shawn Pleasants, the descent into homelessness wasn’t so much a plummet as an … his company began to unravel amid disagreements with his cofounders, and ultimately it dissolved. At about that same time, in 2010, his mother died of cancer. The two had been close. Pleasants grew up in San …
Issue: May-June 2024
The Happy Misanthrope
… Betty Shamieh ’96, RI ’06, isn’t in the house tonight, but she is on stage. The small Off Broadway theater staging Fit for a Queen, her latest … often the smartest person in the room, so always surprised when she’s outwitted. Senenmut’s cruelty, though, …
Issue: January-February 2017
Reforming the Electoral College
… Reed Hundt, the former chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission and current chairman of Making Every Vote Count , jokes that he has a unique …
NYC Book Signing: The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
… On May 21, Harvard Magazine donors were invited to the Harvard Club of New York City for a presentation and book signing with Jennifer 8. Lee '99, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles . … Donors were invited to …
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: …
"Habits Are Values in Disguise": The Phi Beta Kappa Exercises
… The Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises, held the Tuesday morning of each Commencement week in Sanders Theatre, are in a way … insidious habit is so slow, and so thorough, none of it rises to a "catastrophe." Yet, like lung cancer, it's …
Studying the Stele
… On a campus with few public works of art, the monumental Chinese stele—17 feet tall, weighing in at 27 … been sadly neglected in the shadows along the western flank of the massive Widener Library. Its identifying sign is …
Issue: November-December 2012
Putting the “New” in House Renewal
… When students vacate Winthrop House after Commencement 2016, they will make way for something new in the program of undergraduate residences: not just stem-to-stern … renovation, but significant fresh construction, in the form of a five-story addition to Gore Hall that will accommodate …
Issue: May-June 2015
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 …
Robyn Schiff, Stephen Greenblatt to Speak at Phi Beta Kappa Exercises
… Poet Robyn Schiff and Cogan University Professor of the humanities Stephen Greenblatt will speak at the 266th … social science, law, or theology. His latest book, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, is due to be published next …
Explaining the Armenian Genocide
… When the Ottoman Empire entered World War I on Germany’s side in 1914, more than 15 million individuals—an ethnic mix of Kurds, Turks, and other groups—lived in Anatolia. Among them was a population of an estimated 2 million to 2.5 million Armenians, mostly …
Field Farm and The Folly
… The following text is a sidebar to " Modern and Historic ," … 413.298.3239 What other bed and breakfast offers an original Charles and Ray Eames chair for lounging by the fireside? Or a vintage Isamu Noguchi coffee ta ble and a Vladimir Kagan couch? Field Farm, a 1948 …
Issue: September-October 2007