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Trump Administration Threatens Harvard’s Accreditation, Subpoenas Student Records
… The Trump administration escalated its campaign against … latest moves raise questions about the status of ongoing negotiations—which reportedly restarted late last … Harvard and the Trump administration. The Department of Homeland Security subpoenaed Harvard on Wednesday for …
Exact Changes
… In 2002—the year the Argentine peso collapsed, eliminating half the … Naomi Yang ’86 flew to neighboring Brazil to play the rest of the dates. The trip was a risk; Brazil’s economy was also … get paid. But they loved Brazilian music, they’d dreamed of seeing the country, and the promoter who invited them …
Issue: March-April 2016
Off the Shelf
… After a punishing winter, time for spring themes: Baseball Maverick, by Steve Kettmann (Atlantic Monthly Press, $25), a portrait of the New York Mets’ general manager, Richard (“Sandy”) … with Robert D. Manfred Jr., J.D. ’83, now the commissioner of Major League Baseball. For those tending greenery other …
Issue: May-June 2015
The Harvard Sophomore Aiming for City Council
… candidate in next month’s Cambridge City Council election, the height of campaign season happens to coincide with back-to-school … run for, by, and about students—a bid that arose out of work she began in her first year at Harvard. Together …
Undergraduate Tuition
… During the past 20 years, Harvard's undergraduate bill has risen from $14,000 to $39,880 per academic year (before any offsetting financial aid), an increase of 183 percent. The …
Issue: September-October 2004
No Surprises
… The Harvard University Financial Report for the fiscal year … administrators’ hopes: it conveys essentially no surprises. In this, the mid-October report contrasts sharply … the fiscal 2009 version, which disclosed nearly $3 billion of previously unreported losses sustained from investing …
Issue: January-February 2011
The Context: Affirmative Action and Harvard
… This is the seventh post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival …
Provocative Politician
… In 2021 , when Lee Junseok ’07 was elected chairman of South Korea’s conservative People Power Party (PPP)—becoming, at 36, the youngest-ever leader of a major party in the … American president has done. In the decade before his rise to party leadership, Lee was mostly known as a …
Issue: November-December 2024
The Eating Is Easy
… to relax, eat well, and have some fun. Restaurants, from the eccentric to the refined, offer the chance to do just that, while showcasing local … toss)—help foster schmoozing within a gustatory crowd that often includes the Irwins’ parents and friends. The menu has …
Issue: July-August 2017
Drew Faust’s Morning Prayers for the 375th Anniversary
… “History is where the future begins.” That was the message as President Drew … Appleton Chapel today, continuing a presidential tradition of opening the new academic year this way. In light of Harvard College’s 375th anniversary—it was legislated …
At Home with Harvard: The Literary Life
… This is the third installment in Harvard Magazine’ s new series, “At … Harvard literary scholars and archivists, literature is one of Harvard Magazine 's most-covered subjects. Here, our … The world-literature movement’s origins might surprise you: “It didn’t come from elite graduate schools and …
High-Flying Deception
… anything on a volleyball court, in ways that literally rise above the crowd. Ogbechie (ohg-BAY-chay) isn't shy about her … Ogbechie might swat a ball 10 feet in the air, the height of a basketball rim. Nice to roam the ionosphere like that, …
Issue: November-December 2004
Curl Up with the Cloud-gatherer
… passers-by." This spring Harvard University Press publishes the five-hundredth volume in its Loeb Classical Library and, … to celebrate that landmark, also brings forth a sampler of the library’s greatest hits, or, as the press calls it, a “selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from 33 of antiquity’s major …
Issue: March-April 2006
The Case for Indeterminacy
… A few weeks ago, I attended a panel on geopolitics in the Iberian Peninsula with a friend who happened to be a research assistant to one of the panelists. After the event, she introduced me to her … onto the congratulatory Zoom for awardees, I was unsurprised to see no other humanities students present. The …
Issue: May-June 2024
Is Climate Change Ruining Fall?
… New England displays some of the most dramatic fall color in the world. The crowds of … are checked by cold weather. But as temperatures rise, Primack adds, they’ll become more abundant and spread …