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Duty Calls
… Eleven years after she was kicked out of the military under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, veteran aviator … 16 percent of the 4,400 cadets, a percentage likely to rise given the recent decision to allow combat service for …
Issue: May-June 2014
The Corporation Changes
… James R. Houghton ’58, M.B.A. ’62, who joined the President and Fellows of Harvard College (the formal name of the Harvard … Corporation member began in mid January. The committee comprises Faust, Reischauer, and two other Corporation …
Issue: March-April 2010
Reclaiming Childhood
… At the train station in Jaipur, India, a ragtag group of boys … At a site in Gurgaon, half a dozen 20-story buildings rise into the fog. Here, in the birthplace of the overseas …
Issue: November-December 2012
Faculty Members Call for Divestment
… climate change , nearly 100 faculty members called on the president and the Harvard Corporation to do more. The signers of an open letter calling for divestment include leading … of the Earth’s surface, a melting of ice the world over, a rise in sea levels, acidification of the oceans, and an …
The Community’s Conversations
… To a striking degree, the speeches and welcoming messages to students at the beginning of the fall semester touched on a common theme: the importance of civil discourse and the centrality to the University’s …
Issue: November-December 2019
Off the Shelf
… Times , by Joel Richard Paul, J.D. ’81 (Riverhead, $30), offers an accessible portrait of a giant from the third branch of government. The author, of the …
Issue: March-April 2018
Rethinking the Medical Curriculum
… structurally, pedagogically, and philosophically. The new curriculum, which builds on the New Pathway curricular reform of 1987 and an iterative update in 2006 called the New Integrated Curriculum, further emphasizes the process of learning to learn , rather than rote memorization, and …
Issue: September-October 2015
Harvard Affiliates’ Books Draw Press Attention
… Reviewers in the New York Times and Boston Globe have taken note of three books with Harvard ties. In Why Trilling Matters … radical in the early 1930s to, finally, éminence grise of literary and liberal anti-Communism, which he …
Integrity Has Its Price
… a brand-new digital camera if you'll send $100. Once the check clears, you're told, the camera will be in the … is that it requires trusting a stranger. Yet thousands of trust-based transactions occur daily between … customers—on the auction website eBay. Trust on eBay arises from the same source as it does at the corner store …
Issue: July-August 2003
Cardenio at the American Repertory Theatre
… On May 15, Harvard Magazine donors gathered at the Charles Hotel for a talk and discussion with Cardenio … Stephen Greenblatt that was followed by a performance of the play Cardenio at the American Repertory Theatre. … …
Voting Results
… Voting Results The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected …
Issue: July-August 2011
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs
… unexpected advice for policymakers who want people to start their own businesses: give them welfare, including access to … their ability to save money for investment. “Most of the evidence we’ve seen so far says that the effects tend … is inherently perilous. “If you can guarantee some kind of a floor”—if the venture fails, “their kids will still …
Issue: July-August 2016
Theatrical Software
… For a while , all seemed to go well at the ribbon-cutting ceremonies for the New College Theatre on … for example, that five U.S. presidents and a justice of the Supreme Court had performed in the building in its … for plays is getting older.” The playwrights pointed to the rise of the multimedia entertainment industry as a major …
Issue: January-February 2008
Do or Die
… When India won independence at the famous midnight hour of August 14-15, 1947, Mahatma … that the remote cause of the Khilafat was important in the rise of Gandhi, even though he adds the unnecessary …
Issue: May-June 2011
The Senior Alumni
… The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present at Commencement were 99-year-old Ruth Rabb ’37, of New York City, and Leon Starr ’40, of Boston, due to turn 98 in July. Both were recognized during the afternoon ceremony by Harvard Alumni Association …
Issue: July-August 2016