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The Gardens at Elm Bank “Get People Growing”
… At its blooming best during the summer, Weezie’s Garden for Children is an enchanting … place for all ages. Stroll through the arched entrance of sculpted twigs, and wind along paths through this … exhibit specimens. But financial and leadership crises in the 1990s and early 2000s caused turmoil and a …
Issue: July-August 2021
Off the Shelf
… Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection, by Debora L. Spar, Ph.D. ’90 … (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27). The author, now president of Barnard College, formerly of the Harvard Business School faculty, begins by …
Issue: September-October 2013
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
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 …
Pulitzer Gift of Art Works and $45 Million Boosts Harvard Art Museum
… and scholarship—and a matching engagement with the University—Emily Rauh Pulitzer, A.M. '63, has given the Harvard Art Museum 31 important works of modern and contemporary art (one of the most significant such donations in the museum’s …
"Africa for Beginners"
… getting on a plane, but I have no idea where I’m landing.” Of course White knew that her flight was bound for Ghana. But despite her efforts to prepare for a summer there, the New York City native found a concrete sense of the place frustratingly elusive. After taking a course on …
Issue: November-December 2009
Crimson on the Hill
… A Harvard man may have regained the White House, but 2000 wasn't a good year for Harvard's … Republican senators, already diminished by the death of John H. Chafee, LL.B. '50, of Rhode Island. E. Spencer Abraham, J.D. '78, of Michigan …
Professor of Organizational Behavior Paul Lawrence Dies
… M.B.A. ’47, D.C.S. ’50, a Harvard Business School professor whose work on a unifying theory of organizational behavior was the subject of an article in …
What’s in the New Dining Workers’ Contract?
… Harvard dining workers are celebrating the end of their 22-day strike this week, following a Wednesday vote of 583-1 approving the new contract between the University …
News from the HAA
… Election Results The members of the Board of Overseers have elected Thomas S. … Jeremy R. Knowles Photograph by Stu Rosner TheHAA surprised Jeremy R. Knowles, outgoing dean of the Faculty ofArts …
Issue: July-August 2002
All the Would-Be Presidents' People
… Most of the contenders to succeed Bill Clinton as president sported a Harvard connection (see "The Crimson Party," November-December 2000, page 120). … distinctly Cantabrigian, too. Laurence H. Tribe, Tyler professor of constitutional law, showed up on the New York …
Seeing and Observing
… Drawing on Sherlock Holmes, Maria Konnikova ’05—the proprietor of Scientific American’ s “Literally Psyched” column, now a … reflecting in his black-framed glasses. I remember the rise and fall of his voice as the suspense mounted beyond …
Issue: March-April 2013
News and Notices
… Comings and Goings This spring, University clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events, including Harvard-affiliated speakers (see the partial list below). For further information, contact … and Islamic religion and cultures Ali Asani discusses “The Rise of Anti-Western Movements in the Islamic World” at the …
Issue: May-June 2009
Vintage Vitality
… ’83, received a startling finding from a physical exam: in the previous year, his stature had shrunk from six feet, two inches, to six-one. A medical workup showed a “lot of osteoporosis. I had the spine of a 70-year-old man, … were compressed and all my disks flattened. This was a surprise. I was in good condition—I’d worn out two indoor …
Issue: November-December 2009
The Prison Problem
… When Jerry enters the pizza place next to Boston’s Government Center, he … interview Jerry about his experience. After ordering them coffees, Western, a sociology professor and faculty chair of … are thought to have substance-abuse problems—no surprise, given that people steal to get money for drugs, or …
Issue: March-April 2013