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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
From War Zones to the North Shore
… and Tbilisi. She’s written about refugee cooks from Syria, the new spice barons of Madagascar’s booming vanilla market, and desperate “bank … crisis. She’s covered the Middle East amid the aftermath of 9/11 and the War on Terror, and in 2015, she wrote about …
Issue: March-April 2023
Yesterday’s News
… 1916 William Stanislaus Murphy, Class of 1885, leaves all his money to establish scholarships at the College for young men with his last name. 1926 The first … the number of undergraduates making the dean’s list has risen from 19.8 to 30.7 percent, while the list of those …
Issue: January-February 2016
Off the Shelf
… Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System, by Jed S. Rakoff, J.D. ’69 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27). A former …
Issue: March-April 2021
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
Harvard: The Mix Tape
… to make me mix tapes. He would find me by my locker after the last bell to hand me the cassette. I could barely make out the names of the songs, written in scratchy boy handwriting. Usually, … The tracks ran into one another; sometimes they’d be cut off. I would have my favorite songs, but it was too hard to …
Issue: July-August 2013
Jordan Bliss Perry’s Latin (and English) Address
… Multarum Artium Magistri ( Editor's note: The English translation follows the Latin text.) Praeses Bacove, decani honesti, professores sapientissimi; familiares, amici, et hospites; … poetas, et machinarii philologos. VALETE OMNES! A Jack of All Trades President Bacow, distinguished deans, most …
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
Listen to the Landscape
… “Because they have no lyrics,” explains composer and musician Ben Cosgrove ’10, “the titles of my pieces are the only chance I have to give the listener … name from the Yankee Division Highway, another appellation of the Route 128 beltway that rings Boston and separates it …
Issue: July-August 2012
More About the Fat That Could Make You Fitter
… Evidence is mounting for the metabolic firepower of brown fat, the energy-inefficient tissue that burns off calories as heat—as reported in this article on the work …
Corporation Fellows Pass the Baton
… Reischauer ’63 will conclude his service as senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s senior governing … becoming involved with specific issues as they arise. During the controversy over the privacy of electronic …
Physics Ph.D. Appointed President of Williams College
… Theoretical physicist Adam F. Falk, Ph.D. '91, has been appointed the seventeenth president of Williams College , effective next April. Falk, age 44, is dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins, …
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Named Harvard College Class Day Speaker
… The basketball player, writer, and activist Kareem … featured Class Day speaker,” Uzma Issa ’25, first marshal of the 2025 Class Committee, said in a news announcement. “He’s a champion in every sense of the word—celebrated both for his extraordinary …
Harvard Portrait: David Jones
… In college he was a varsity fencer with high-profile mentors: Simon Schama taught narrative history to Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine David S. Jones ’92, M.D. ’97, Ph.D. …
Issue: September-October 2012
The Chinese Century?
… Kirby wears at least four Harvard hats: Spangler Family professor of business administration (Harvard Business School, … China studies (Faculty of Arts and Sciences, FAS); chair of the Harvard China Fund (HCF, University-wide); and director … Similarly, he said, the country had unleashed private enterprise, yielding enormous new companies and markets, creating …
Issue: May-June 2010