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After Our Bubble
… Americans have not experienced austerity in a long time, so the decade ahead may come as a shock. Expect continued high unemployment, slow wage growth, the possibility of social and political unrest, higher taxes, cuts in … Is Different , a study of eight centuries of financial crises; see “What This Country Needs,” January-February, page …
Issue: July-August 2010
Flocking to Finance
… Recent graduates may take for granted the migration of one-fifth of their classmates into … 500 companies. Wessel concluded that the astronomical rise in finance-sector salaries has fueled income inequality …
Issue: May-June 2008
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 …
Fracking’s Future
… Supplies of natural gas now economically recoverable from shale in the United States could accommodate the country’s domestic … of nearby residents’ fresh water. Serious problems have arisen in the past from failures to isolate the drilling …
Issue: January-February 2013
Cambridge 02138
… The Power Problem Part of the problem in energizing a … to acknowledge the severity and immediacy, yet solubility, of the problem. In his article highlighting Professor Daniel … almost the only option. For everything else, I’m just surprised that people still believe that government efforts to …
Issue: July-August 2006
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
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 …
"A Force on the Ice"
… There has been a Moore on the ice for Harvard since 1996, … 88). The brethren hail from Thornhill, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto ("the hockey capital of the world," says Dominic) and all three have been drafted …
Issue: January-February 2002
Encouraging Harvard to Resist
… has been updated to include reactions to Harvard declining the federal government's demands. This spring , federal … University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of pro-Palestine campus protests who holds permanent U.S. … hospitals. Throughout the past month, several groups of Harvard alumni and faculty members have written and …
Dining with Bogart and Bergman
… One talent distinguishes the few chefs who are truly gifted from those who are merely … Several weeks ago, at lunch, I had a gentrified version of this popular pleasure at the Casablanca restaurant in … entrées start at $15 for the almond-ricotta dumplings and rise to $23 for a peppered sirloin. The wine list offers …
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
The Oldest Object
… orbiting Earth detect a star exploding anywhere in the universe, Edo Berger gets an alert on his cell phone. At 3:55 a.m. on April 23, the assistant professor of astronomy learned of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) from a star …
Issue: September-October 2009
Journey to the Amazon
… rainforest to see what Harvard climatologists were doing there. See some of the plants and animals he encountered, and video of the scholars at work. (And read the article, " Models—and …
Issue: January-February 2011
Videos from the Library Test Kitchen
… What form should Harvard libraries assume in the twenty-first century? Should they simply vanish into … course "Bibliotheca II: Library Test Kitchen," taught by professor of Romance languages and literatures Jeffrey Schnapp, …
Quest for the Best
… in college and later in life? One model, proven over the past six years, involves intensive enrichment before … them to a campus during the summer, free of charge, for five weeks of academic work, leadership training, and counseling on …