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Dolores Huerta on the Power to Change
… conversation between Soledad O’Brien ’88 and Dolores Huerta—the labor and civil-rights activist who co-founded the … stood up to make one more statement. “I have a request of you,” she said. “Alumni here, of Harvard, please address the [Harvard] president, say, …
Jacob Sweet , Lydialyle Gibson
At the HLS Helm
… issues to President Bill Clinton, was on April 3 named the eleventh dean of Harvard Law School (HLS). The 43-year-old Kagan, who … a remarkable ability to bring people together around issues of academic and institutional importance." She becomes dean, …
Issue: July-August 2003
Football: Harvard 26-Columbia 6
… On Saturday at the Stadium, the Harvard football team supplied precisely the right amount of drama for a team hoping to remain in first place: none. … Lions to get on the scoreboard until the final two minutes of the game. The victory raised Harvard’s record to 7-1 …
Harvard Investigates Fencing Coach Over Transactions Involving Parent of a Prospect
… The front page of Friday morning’s Boston Globe reported—under the headline, “A Very Good Deal for Harvard Coach”—that Peter Brand, head coach of Harvard’s fencing team since 1999, had engaged in …
New in Town?
… city restaurants are attracting both tonier grown-ups and the young professionals and students who dominate bars and nightlife—and … popular themed menus, and intimate ambience, or targeting of connoisseurs, these places are nothing if not …
Issue: January-February 2017
An Amazon Artist
… smitten with artists’ better-than-photographic renderings of charismatic fauna (Audubon’s birds, for instance) and flora. Among them, happily, was Mildred Bliss, who with her husband, … traveling to Germany in the early 1930s, she witnessed the rise of Nazism and the Reichstag fire; her first husband was …
Issue: May-June 2020
Creativity in the Classroom
… Arts First, a multiday festival of student performances and artworks, taking place this year on April 26-29 , has traditionally highlighted the array of extracurricular enterprises that enliven the school year. But significantly, the …
News from the HAA
… Invaluable The Harvard Alumni Association Awards were established in … will be honored on November 2 during the opening dinner of the annual fall meeting of HAA directors. Rozlyn L. Anderson '77, J.D. '80, of …
The Miller-Hunn Award Winners
… This year, the newly renamed Miller-Hunn Awards—the original award, which recognized the work of Hiram S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, now also honors recently retired admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71 (see “ Admissions, …
Issue: November-December 2019
Oratorical Exchanges
… On the fourth day of a celebration of Harvard's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, on November … reflection that for me there exists no alma mater gives rise to a feeling of regret, which is only kindly tempered …
The Social Epidemic
… Zasembo Mkhize, age eight, has come to the doctor dressed in a hot-pink-and-white outfit, … comes each month for a checkup at the pediatric HIV clinic of Don McKenzie Hospital, in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal … the shade while children mill around playing; Kilimanjaro rises in the background. The family listens patiently as the …
Issue: September-October 2010
The Opioids Emergency
… “We are trying to get the house of medicine back in order.” That’s how one … his work amid the still-mounting opioid epidemic. The scale of the crisis is almost unimaginable—70,000 lives lost to …
Issue: March-April 2019
Working on the Railroad
… usually involved getting on a train and riding across the country for a week or two, stopping at national parks … the 65-year-old has found himself in the unlikely position of being the last hope for the nation's passenger-rail system. Photographs courtesy of Amtrak The new president of the National Passenger …
Issue: November-December 2002
The Faculty’s Fears
… The agenda for the April 1 Faculty of Arts and Sciences … on the means to sustain it. Those hostile to the enterprise have already proven adept at finding divisions and …
News from the HAA
… Overseer (six-year term, five to be elected): Nominated by the HAA Anderson Fergusson Rozlyn L. Anderson '77, J.D. '80. … vice president, Merrill Lynch Trust Company, and director of wealth management strategies, Merrill Lynch Wealth … and Dorr LLP. Richard I. Melvoin '73; Ph.D. '83 University of Michigan. Belmont, Mass. Head, Belmont Hill School. …
Issue: May-June 2002