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Caveat Caesar
… On March 15, 44 B.C., Julius Caesar walked unguarded to the Roman Senate despite his soothsayer's oracular "Beware the ides of March," his wife's murder-foretelling nightmare, and a … When the Senate deified Caesar, for example, rather than rise to receive this highest honor, he remained …
Issue: September-October 2003
The March for Science
… Early on a chilly Saturday morning in April, I gathered in Cambridge with a hearty band of Harvard scientists and supporters of science to help launch the March for Science, an …
Issue: July-August 2017
Learning to Change the World
… One of the highlights of my spring semester is speaking with members of the senior class about their plans for the future. Some …
Issue: May-June 2016
Always Leaning Into Wrongdoing
… foray into that question opens on Hawaii’s Big Island, in the midst of a volcanic eruption. “You can feel that you are present … truest self, perhaps—or merely something unformed? In The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, the Cogan University …
Issue: September-October 2017
The Teddy Bear Effect
… Most Fortune 500 CEOs—roughly 95 percent of them, in fact—are white men. Line up headshots of these leaders and plenty of pronounced chins, square …
Issue: January-February 2019
Hollow at the Core
… During shopping week this spring , the undergraduate visited all of the offerings for Historical Studies B listed in Courses … arbitrarily privileges some fields; all of science comprises one year of study compared to the behemoth of …
No Surprises: Harvard's 2010 Financial Report
… The Harvard University Financial Report for fiscal year 2010 … fondest hopes in that it conveys essentially no surprises. In this respect, the report contrasts sharply with … the fiscal 2009 version, which disclosed nearly $3 billion of previously unreported losses sustained from investing …
All About the Food
… At lunchtime , Law of Pasta owner Avery Perry darts around his Boston Public … Market shop, stopping just long enough to explain himself: “They call me the ‘bad boy of pasta,’” he says, gesturing to cases of freshly extruded …
Issue: September-October 2019
In Cuba with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
… didn’t. All I knew was, I was a bit nervous. It was 3:58 in the morning on May 27, and I, along with 85 of my closest friends from the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra … we rehearsed the fourth movement of the Dvorak, I was surprised to hear Carlota whistling along. Roberto, Carlota, and …
Fond Farewell
… In 1966, John T. Bethell ’54 became the editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin … in 1995, I was privileged to inherit a much larger enterprise committed to serving an engaged readership of …
Issue: May-June 2025
"Resizing," before "Reshaping"
… Continued constraint on faculty appointments (a total of just 15 to 19 junior-faculty searches in 2009-2010, down … on visiting faculty, lecturers, and appointments from other Harvard schools: all pointing to more limited course … seemingly built in a budget margin. But financial aid may rise further; past decisions have yielded a still-growing …
Issue: July-August 2009
Grumbling among the Woodwinds
… gilt-edged halls. Hushed audiences listen as you enthrall them with Beethoven or Prokofiev. Hundreds of admirers burst into applause at each concert's end. …
The Cambridge Science Festival
… The twelfth annual Cambridge Science Festival offers more … director John Durant, the 10-day event was the “first of its kind in the United States,” says festival manager …
Issue: March-April 2018
Brevia
… emissions and recommend University goals for reducing them; it is to report by the end of the academic year. Brooks professor of international … College tuition, room, board, and fees for 2008-2009 will rise to $47,215, an increase of 3.5 percent (compared to …
Issue: May-June 2008
Off-the-Bench Opinions
… The first woman seated on the U.S. Supreme Court, Sandra Day … at the Radcliffe Day annual luncheon. Barbara Grosz, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, introduced … Medalist who had been inducted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame.) O’Connor spoke approvingly of the nomination by …