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Ghost Story
… APPROACHING HIS FIFTIETH REUNION, the author, class of ’68, engages the ghost of his … well. And who were you and what did you bring to this enterprise? Not much, beyond youthful enthusiasm and high ideals, …
No More [Lovin’ That] Dirty Water
… Unlike other college students who waitressed for cash over the … be there at night after everyone had left and sit up on top of a little bluff looking back at the city—3.5 million … miles of water and 34 islands and peninsulas (which comprise the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park). …
Issue: July-August 2025
"Dissing Evolution"
… Professor of anthropology Daniel Lieberman believes we can better understand the history and future of human evolution by pondering a … have changed enough in such a short time to explain this rise in disease. Rather, their health changed when they …
Issue: May-June 2009
Lee Elected Fellow of Harvard Corporation
… F. Lee '72 (J.D.-M.B.A. Cornell '76), co-managing partner of the WilmerHale law firm, has been elected to the … held by James R. Houghton '58, M.B.A. '62, senior fellow of the Corporation; Houghton announced last December that he …
America's Open Door
… Heaven's Door is George J. Borjas's second major work on the economic consequences of the great wave of immigration into the United States of the last 30 …
Making Money Funny
… has a 14-story waterslide, two ski lifts, and seven species of live sharks. Nearly all storefronts are leased and about five million people visited last year. But the mall’s lawyers argue that the complex is not actually in … ’00. As a young lawyer, he had helped facilitate the sale of the company building the mall. As a parent, he recently …
Issue: July-August 2025
Antisemitism on Campuses
… As Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack and the ensuing war in the Middle East reverberated on college … departments felt the impacts more acutely than others. Professors of Jewish studies, antisemitism studies, and Israel … within the university. He said that the “deeply troubling rise in antisemitism” can be traced to polarization and lack …
The Conservative
… “It’s a strange moment to have written a book where part of the argument is that things are changing less than you … weekday afternoon in July. He was sitting on the back deck of his home in New Haven, Connecticut, overlooking a …
Issue: November-December 2020
Cambridge 02138
… Harvard and the Middle East War Robert Soto and Robert Park ( Letters, … concerned that Harvard doesn’t care about the Gazan victims of the war that Hamas began on October 7. Soto wants “equal … carbon stated the importance of nitrogen in soil. I’m surprised he didn’t mention “peecycling,” the diversion of …
Issue: July-August 2024
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
Crossing the Ultimate Color Line
… Barack Obama’s election represents the fulfillment of a dream that once seemed unfathomable, writes Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of Harvard’s W.E.B. …
Cambridge 02138
… The Humanities… While I totally agree with James Engell’s … humanity, and technical skills, there should be ample proof the subject is conversant in civics, history, and the … 14), I am leaning against. This may be considered a surprise by the authors, if they intended to support Harvard‘s …
Issue: March-April 2023
Toward Cultural Citizenship
… One day in the early spring of 2013, Alexander Rehding asked the … who will tell us how they work in a complex ballet with machines and movable shelving structures.” Students will …
Issue: May-June 2014
Stanford Reports 22.4 Percent Endowment Returns
… Management Company today reported investment returns of 22.4 percent on endowment assets for the 12 months ended June 30. After accounting for gifts … yet to report. … Endowment, growing faster than Harvard's, rises 19.5 percent to $16.5 billion. … Stanford endowment …
Antisemitism on Campus—And Beyond
… Sunday afternoon , September 22, hundreds of Harvard community members donning miniature Israeli flags and hostage dog tags filed into Sanders Theatre for a summit about antisemitism and anti-Zionism on … campus after October 7, while appalling, did not surprise me.” Danny Denenberg ’26, Harvard Hillel’s Israel …