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Is the Law a Creature of Corporations?
… How have corporations influenced the way law is taught, practiced, and discussed, as well as … At a January 27-28 Harvard Law School conference, critics of contemporary law—students, attorneys, legal commentators, … by which law students can challenge this “corporate capture of the law.” The conference sprang from Stone professor of …
The Kindness of a City
… The weekend before the Boston Marathon the air in the city … in tow, ready to run in the most famous and respected of all marathon courses. But this isn’t just about the … is really a 26.2-mile-long block-party filled with hundreds of thousands of spectators, young and old alike, simply out …
The Saga of a Great Headline
… Two mornings after the fact, the Crimson 's headline made the 1968 match-up the … only one little word, had brilliantly captured the essence of the Harvard football team's legendary comeback (16 points … headline in Crimson history, its author surely spoken of reverently through the generations, perhaps even honored …
A Look at "The Language of Color"
… Visit the Harvard Museum of Natural History via video for a tour of its new exhibition, The Language of Color, introduced by …
Issue: November-December 2008
Of Dumplings, Bok Choy, and the Politics of Emoji
… about upcoming dinner plans. Lee sent over a picture of dumplings, and Lu went to her iPhone’s emoji keyboard to … digital icon. None existed. For most people, this kind of omission would inspire minor annoyance but little, if … activist,” co-founder of Emojination, and vice-chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee—a group that helps decide …
The Future of Theater
… Recently, actor John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, was offered the chance (“for buckets of money”) to take over the lead role in an established …
Issue: January-February 2012
The Thwarts of Last Resort
… extinguishers and airline safety cards, lifeboats remind us of a reality we prefer to ignore; on a tropical cruise, we tune out the lifeboat drill. Yet these simple, old-fashioned boats … have changed hardly at all; they're a standard feature of ocean travel that, when properly deployed, have indeed …
Issue: July-August 2004
Anatomy of the Euro Crisis
… “Ten years into its existence, the Euro is a resounding success. The single currency has become a symbol of Europe, considered by Euro-area citizens to be among the … capacities for continuous innovation—enabling German enterprises to compete globally on quality as well as price. An …
Issue: July-August 2013
We Were Students Once...
… ...And Young. That’s the starting point of The Nancy Poems (Cirque Press, 2024), … purity—moving quietly about a square New England house that rises high among its elms above a wide, slow-flowing …
Issue: May-June 2025
Vita: Henry Beston Sheahan
… In 1925 Henry Beston ’09, A.M. ’11, bought land in the peninsular dunes of Eastham, on Cape Cod, and commissioned a carpenter to … a cartoon of Beston’s tombstone, engraved “He hated machines.” Now, Beston was convinced, the Machine Age was …
Issue: September-October 2013
Doctors for Change
… Among the items on display in the exhibit titled Prescriptions for Peace is the book Surviving Nuclear War. It offers instructions for creating a DIY face covering to … in 1985, with the Cold War in its final years and amid the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev, the IPPNW won the Nobel …
Enlarging the Allston Enterprise Zone
… The hotel, conference center, labs and residences that will … Planning and Development Agency—detailing the first phase of construction, and sketching in a successor phase for …
On the Medicalization of Our Culture
… There are perhaps few academic topics of equal interest to scholars of history, law, anthropology, neuroscience, and literature. …
The Constancy of Change
… Great Universities endure —in the United States, none more so than Harvard. It is startling to read through the list of 102 academic symposiums presented during the University’s … to inquiries into the origins of life. The research enterprise, overall, is enormous. Federally sponsored research …
Issue: September-October 2011
The Business of Lies
… “We can’t go on together / With suspicious minds,” Elvis crooned in ’68—though … later, if you feel so inclined, you can graft the title of Joseph Finder’s new thriller Guilty Minds onto the lyrics without seriously neutering the themes of either work. Both guilty minds and suspicious minds hurt …
Issue: September-October 2016