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The Poet's Perspective
… fax in mid September. Kirsch: When I was a student in one of your workshops, about 10 years ago, you had the class translating fragments of Beowulf which, I realize in retrospect, must have been …
Issue: November-December 2006
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
Debating School Choice
… During the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976, Boston Herald American … photographer Stanley Forman, NF ’80, snapped a spot photo of a white man assailing a black man with a pole bearing the … Boston in the 1970s was undergoing a different kind of revolution. “The Soiling of Old Glory,” as the image was …
Issue: March-April 2016
The Tiger Daughter, Intact
… Lulu Chua-Rubenfeld ’18 was once considered one of the most abused children in the Western world. A main … in her mother’s bestselling parenting memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother , Lulu starred in many anecdotes that …
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
Chapter & Verse
… Herbert Allard requests a source for "...dry clashed the harness on the barren walls...." He takes harness to mean armor. Peter Roberts is hunting for a description of the ocean, possibly by Proust, containing phrases he … of Florence (book 5, chapter 1)— " For valor gives rise to peace, peace to indolence, indolence to disorder, …
Issue: March-April 2003
Love the One You’re With
… in a lifeboat; his sturdy peer (Mandy Patinkin) climbs out of a trunk. Strangers, they alone have survived a great flood. And for the next 90 minutes, the pair explore the realms of human existence, seeking to commune and thrive, despite …
Issue: May-June 2015
Aristotle and the Drip Pan
… "There is very little technical mathematics in this book, and what there is can easily be skipped over without loss of the principal ideas," writes Philip J. Davis '43, Ph.D. '50, at the start of his memoir, The Education of a Mathematician (A.K. …
President of Mexico Is Kennedy School Commencement Speaker
… Felipe Calderón, M.P.A. ’00, will deliver the 2010 graduation address to Kennedy School degree … the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. President Calderón, who took office in December 2006, served in his twenties as president of the National Action Party’s (PAN) youth movement and …
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal The Farmers’ Market at Harvard … (rain or shine) Outside the Science Center, at the corner of Oxford and Kirkland streets. In Allston: Fridays, 3-7 … historical events, and stylistic developments that gave rise to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century …
Issue: July-August 2010
Defending Civil Discourse on Campus
… In early November 2015, an angry group of Yale students surrounded Nicholas Christakis M.D.'89, then master of Silliman residential college (and before then master of …
Straws in the Wind?
… As the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) determines how Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Engineering and …
Clara Darden
… represented in Harvard’s collections died a century ago: the painter and printmaker Winslow Homer, and Clara Darden, … basketry, including 11 now housed in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Homer is rightly famous, but … has a place in the historical record, practitioners of the “new history” are unwilling to give attention to some …
Issue: July-August 2010
Tony Horwitz Travels the Keystone XL Route
… attracted more passionate, deeply polarized letters than “The Keystone XL Pipeline,” a Forum opinion essay by Michael B. McElroy, Butler professor of environmental studies (November-December 2013; … it would bring, and those more cautious. To his surprise, the residents of a Hutterite community in Montana (“a …