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Duel for the Heart of Texas
… Everything is bigger in the Lone Star State--including the political fights. This … implications. Last Man Standing: Politics Texas Style, part of PBS's P.O.V. series, takes a behind-the-scenes look at … to tell us about the politics that George W. Bush came out of," says Stekler, a former political consultant who now …
Issue: July-August 2004
Harvard College Admits Class of 2026
… The College has admitted 1,954 of 61,220 applicants to the … rate last year —the arithmetical result of the continuing rise in the applicant pool. Looking ahead, Harvard has …
An Ounce of Prevention
… The magnitude of the current financial crisis reflects the … From Crisis to Calm Of course , financial panics and crises are nothing new. For most of the nation’s history, … of American life. Until the Great Depression, major crises struck about every 15 to 20 years—in 1792, 1797, 1819, …
Issue: September-October 2009
The Law of Gravity
… What goes up indeed comes down. Following the breathtaking 32.2 percent return on investments for the … in 1983. The change in direction could hardly surprise anyone who paid attention to an environment that HMC … percent endowment return exceeded the aggregate performance of HMC's "policy portfolio" (the weighted mix of different …
Issue: November-December 2001
For the Joy of It
… Last year, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO), formerly known as the Pierian Sodality of 1808, celebrated its bicentennial. It could claim to be … Orchestra (1900) arrived decades later (see “ Two Centuries of Sound ,” May-June 2008, page 23). But in its early years, …
Issue: September-October 2009
Seeking the First Speakers of Indo-European Language
… A new study of ancient DNA from 727 individuals who lived in the regions cradling the southern half of the Black Sea, and … root words. But where and when did the original language arise, and who spoke it? Answering such questions has in the …
“Be the Voice of Health”
… , Class Day speaker for Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, is best known as the pediatrician, … advocate whose research exposed lead poisoning in the water of Flint, Michigan, in 2015—and indeed, much of her speech …
Off the Shelf
… by Daniel Altman '96, Ph.D. '00 (Public Affairs, $26.95). "The neoconomists' revolution has one goal: to increase the … for the Economist and the New York Times. The chosen path of these economists and the Bush administration "could … real revolution in which the nation's tax-paying laborers rise up against a class of wealthy free-riders." Copies in …
Issue: September-October 2004
The Health Benefits of Owning a Pet
… Today is National Pet Day , and pet owners have another reason to celebrate: their pets are helping them live … to die,” said Harvard Medical School clinical assistant professor Beth Frates, citing the American Heart Association’s … In a talk yesterday at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Frates and Megan Mueller, associate …
Seeds of Greatness
… Of all the seed-bearing plants on earth, the angiosperms, or … plants, have been the most successful. There are 250,000 of them, as compared to a mere 750 of everything else: a … the fruits, vegetables, and grains, for example. The rise of the angiosperms 140 million years ago, in the early …
The Resurrection of the Marlboro Man
… Battles about the future of smoking have always been waged over children. … tobacco companies, the young represent the next generation of smokers. Public-health advocates like Barry Bloom and Jay …
Issue: September-October 2019
The New Histories
… In May 1968 , the university’s students wanted to change the world. … that is because the May 1968 unrest at the University of Dakar in Senegal was part of the same general mood around … now see that the same patterns—colonialism, or the rise of small elites controlling vast resources—emerge …
Issue: November-December 2014
The Dance of Intellect
… what relationship, if any, poetry has to rational thought. The majority view is that poetry is the literary genre most … entertaining the idea, to drench the idea in a weather of sensibility so as to register its emotional effects. The … chapter on Whitman, she shows us how Whitman's use of reprise as an organizing principle, moving from some perceptual …
Issue: January-February 2005
Behind the Scenes: The Power of Human Connection
… A couple of years ago, a friend of mine—like me, a writer and reporter , and also like me a … very true. People like us, he said, go into journalism for the writing , only to discover that it’s the reporting …
Art of the Future?
… The Fogg and Busch-Reisinger Museums at 32 Quincy Street … exhibition hinting at the design approach unfolding in the offices of project architect Renzo Piano. All but the original 1927 …
Issue: May-June 2008