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A Cardiac Conundrum
… angina pectoris and heart attacks, but it wasn’t until the 1910s and 1920s that physicians began concerted efforts … to its now longstanding status as the leading cause of death for American adults. It has held that position … But for patients with stable coronary disease, who comprise a large share of angioplasty patients? It has not been …
Issue: March-April 2013
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
A Climate Refugee Crisis in the Offing
… Rising temperatures have the potential to lead to large-scale, famine-induced … migrations from equatorial countries: a series of humanitarian disasters, triggered as climate refugees … in some connection with their environment,” says the professor of the practice of health and human rights at the …
Issue: November-December 2020
The Overseers and Optics
… The University has announced that Kenji Yoshino ’91, the Chief Justice Earl Warren professor of constitutional law at New York University School of Law, …
The COVID-19 Commencement
… The novel coronavirus had a powerful downsizing effect on … in the formal Commencement rituals—the 369 th iteration of which will be rescheduled. There was no Baccalaureate. … by Harvard Magazine As the leader of the major news enterprise at the heart of contemporary Washington, D.C., the Post …
John S. Rosenberg , Jacob Sweet
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 …
The Activist Athlete
… evening , Stemberg men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker sat off to the side in the front row at the Institute of Politics John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, one of the listeners …
Staying Fit Through the HAA
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) , says new president Martin J. Grasso Jr. ’78, offers “the luxury of staying in the conversations we had as … to very rapidly growing technology and life-sciences enterprises that are backed by the elite venture capital …
Issue: September-October 2016
A New Place, a New Paradigm
… For what she called “the launch of the launch” of the expanded Harvard Art Museums in November, President …
A Workable Democracy
… G. Breyer, LL.B. ’64, sometimes says that his job and that of other members of the Supreme Court is to speak for the law. … are difficulties which are intrinsic in the whole enterprise of organizing and maintaining a society which will …
Issue: March-April 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
“Hard Truths” about Harvard’s Classroom “Compact”
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ committee examining the … provides some encouraging evidence that the academic enterprise in Crimson classrooms is doing at least okay. For … But the overall impression is that the fundamental enterprise of teaching and learning—call it the Crimson classroom …
Steven Spielberg and Drew Faust Address Harvard Commencement
… Seats in the shade were in high demand in Tercentenary Theatre on the afternoon of the 365th Commencement Day. Graduates, trailing … change and through storm.” What does that mean for today’s crises? Where do universities fit in this threatening mix? …
Doug McMillon’s Business School address
… I am deeply honored to be asked to speak with you today, the graduates of Harvard Business School. I'm really excited for you. … The culture and tenure of people in those buildings surprise me. The way they talked about Sam Walton surprise me. …