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“Panic in the Year Zero”
… "Panic in the Year Zero," by D.A. Powell Bless the tourists in their “Alcatraz Rocks!” parkas on the upper deck of a double-decker in any given February bluster. … though they seem to get snugger by the minute. What kind of help could they get if they could get help? …
Extreme Housing
… There are more than 20 million refugees in the world, and for many of them, home consists of UN-donated plastic sheeting held … historian Polybius in his attempts to explain the sudden rise of Rome. Because it's extremely efficient, Jelacic says …
Issue: September-October 2004
A Death in the Harvard Family: John Updike ’54, Litt.D. ’92
… humorist, and poet John Updike ’54, Litt.D. ’92, died of lung cancer today. A former president of the Harvard Lampoon, Updike went on to write more than 50 …
From the Archives: 1968, When “Harvard Beats Yale”
… As the golden anniversary of the 29-29 stunner approaches, … 1968 reporting —the issue closed late to permit coverage of the first contest between unbeaten Harvard and Yale teams … sports headline ever written.” I was shocked, but not surprised. The Heritage Foundation had already called my …
“We Salute You, and We Thank You”
… Following Thursday’s in-person, new-look Commencement for the class of 2022 , the University this morning put on a unique, … until morphing at the end into two powerful, surprise expressions of love for parents and congratulations to …
John S. Rosenberg , Nancy Walecki , Lydialyle Gibson , Jacob Sweet
Synthetic Biology in the Wild
… July , Wyss Institute fellow Kevin Esvelt and Winthrop professor of genetics George Church coauthored a paper in the journal eLife outlining how new technologies containing …
Issue: September-October 2014
Outlining a New Vision for the Arts
… The arts must assume a more central role in the intellectual life of the campus, and this goal—and the expenditures necessary … on the arts at Harvard announced today. Toward the goal of putting the arts "on par with the study of the humanities …
When Having Babies Beats Marriage
… In February The New York Times ran a story under the provocative … headline, “For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside of Marriage.” The article suggested childbearing outside of marriage was the “new normal”—that recently released data …
Issue: July-August 2012
Ayn Rand
… her due. After Time magazine had called her masterpiece—the novel Atlas Shrugged— “a nightmare,” after the eminent … invited to Harvard to present a paper on her philosophy of art. Her host, John Hospers, a rising young philosopher … logically. Still, some of her preferences were apt to surprise. In her writing, for example, she savaged Thomas Wolfe, …
Issue: November-December 2009
Open Book: The Photographer’s Art
… Burden professor of photography Robin Kelsey is the rare art historian with a Yale law degree (read the profile, “From Daguerreotype to Photoshop,” …
Issue: July-August 2015
Yesterday’s News
… 1916 The Faculty Committee on the Use of English by Students … at Harvard-Radcliffe as the College year’s price tag rises to $7,360. … From the pages of the Harvard Alumni …
Issue: July-August 2006
“Foreign Parts”: A Clip from the Film
… , a 2010 documentary that provides an intimate look at the backstage work of a junkyard and doubles as an exploration of the society itself, in both its vitality and its …
Issue: November-December 2011
Kermit Roosevelt
… Crisscrossing the Middle East, assessing governments and plotting coups … and tennis, “Kim” Roosevelt ’38 led the CIA overthrow of Iran’s first semi-democratic government. Few Americans … consequences. In 1953, President Eisenhower had just taken office, pledging to contain Communism. The enemy had seized …
Issue: January-February 2011
"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
A Millennial Mystery
… and scholars can visit Houghton Library to investigate The Songs of Argus Zion as a possible “map” to the whereabouts of prophetess Joanna Southcott’s chest of sealed …
Issue: January-February 2019