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When Technology and Society Clash
… 2016, as Donald Trump’s presidential campaign emerged from the Republican pack and Hillary Clinton battled Bernie … records seemed to be everywhere. And so Sweeney, the Paul professor of the practice of government and technology, … purchased from Cambridge City Hall for $25—and to her surprise was quickly able to relink Weld’s name to his medical …
Issue: November-December 2024
Freshmen on the Hunt
… That afternoon they’d have to line up for their Convocation procession; a … for their first class. The freshmen seized their last hours of freedom. Most had arrived at the College one short week … they crisscrossed the campus—their campus—with the kind of confidence that can only be inspired by competitive …
Old-Fashioned Warmth
… To walk into the rambling, 1849 Greek Revival farmhouse at Sunday Farm in … by a large wood-burning stove. But the doors to the rest of the house are closed; beyond them, the temperature drops … this winter, when some sources predict that fuel prices may rise as much as 50 percent. “Physiologists have measured …
Issue: January-February 2006
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
Cambridge Smorgasbord
… for Commencement week and alumni events, here’s a selection of restaurants, spanning many cuisines, that are suitable for gatherings of all kinds—from casual to fancy, and spirited to cozy. At …
Issue: May-June 2025
Design in Layers
… Robert Pillsbury ’61, M.Arch. ’65, devoted himself to the pleasures of creation and construction, often in the form of large-scale industrial water and sewer …
Issue: March-April 2014
Envy in Hand
… Although its steel blade is sharp and pointed and capable of doing serious damage unsheathed, this 13 1/2 -inch dagger was not meant to be a weapon. … adaptations by the Comte de Tressan and contributed to the rise of the troubadour style. In painting, the style showed …
Issue: November-December 2011
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
Images That Speak
… The Griffin Museum of Photography is tucked into a leafy … in documenting New England; it is housed in a replica of an old gristmill—but any fustiness ends there. The … interview for the Leica Camera blog. “I just like the surprise of life as it is and how it reveals itself.” Meanwhile, …
Issue: January-February 2015
Shalala Tells Public Health School Graduates to “Expect the Unexpected”
… Donna Shalala, president of the Clinton Foundation, delivered the Commencement address … graduates, “The history of public health is a story of surprises,” and warning them to “expect the unexpected.” …
Outside-In Ur-banism
… The most fascinating thing about the suburbanites living around the ancient Mesopotamian settlement of Tell Brak isn’t who they were, according to archaeologist … what is today northeastern Syria, a few hundred miles north of Gilgamesh’s Uruk (Tell Brak’s most celebrated …
Issue: May-June 2008
Markets and the Movie Industry
… Historians often describe Hollywood studios during World War II as crusaders against the Nazi regime and staunch defenders of American democracy. … might explain the dearth of such films earlier. “It surprised me—who would have thought that Louis B. Mayer would …
Issue: November-December 2013
Radical Living
… There’s nothing superfluous about Canterbury Shaker Village. That’s just the way members of the separatist Christian sect who lived on this New … a communal agrarian utopia: “Heaven on Earth.” First to rise was the Meeting House. There, devotees eschewed …
Issue: September-October 2017
A Gallery Glows Again
… The Great Mammal Hall, a two-story gallery 60 feet long by … wide, is the oldest and most dramatic in the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH). The hall was emptied of its taxonomic treasures as part of a renovation …
Issue: November-December 2009
Brevia
… A Renovation Revealed Dunster, the first undergraduate residence scheduled for a complete overhaul as part of House renewal, will feature enhanced social, arts, and … Portrait,” January-February, page 28, for the 6 percent rise in benefits costs during fiscal 2013)—a point for …
Issue: March-April 2014