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Fixing the COVID-19 Swab Supply Chain
… In the United States and globally, the inability to test large numbers of people for COVID-19 has severely hampered diagnosis by clinicians and the data-gathering and modeling efforts of epidemiologists. But the shortage does not involve …
Global Groceries
… ), named for Armenia’s largest lake, sits at the epicenter of Watertown’s Armenian community. The … are now behind the counters almost every day. They gab, often in Armenian, with friends and steady customers, and …
Issue: September-October 2016
Worth a Thousand Words
… its muted color palettes and simple shapes and lines, the art of Sarah Hulsey ’01 has a lot to say. Nearly every … print, etching, or artist’s book—features letterpress text of some kind. It’s not prose, nor is it poetry, and its …
Issue: November-December 2015
History and Democracy
… Editor’s note: Introducing himself as a Princeton professor wearing a Yale gown as he prepared to address a Harvard audience, historian Sean Wilentz told the new Phi Beta Kappa inductees on June 6 that they had … once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme. Americans, a hopeful …
Issue: September-October 2006
The Senior Alumni
… Evelyn Richmond ’41, of Nashville, Tennessee, and Theodore R. Barnett ’41, of Stowe, Vermont, were the oldest Radcliffe and Harvard …
Issue: July-August 2018
Reporting, with an M.B.A.
… In the history of stock market rallies and economic recessions, … says . “ At such times, a few financial storytellers often rise to prominence: people you’ve never heard of who fill … hegemony in online search, the economics of fads, and the rise of risk at Fannie Mae (the government’s mortgage-loan …
Issue: January-February 2022
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
… The elegant woman in her low-cut satin dress and plumed … Pupils at the Salon sponsored by the Parisian Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1785, she was making a daring … her path to the prestigious body was unusual. Many professional women painters came from families of artists or …
Issue: September-October 2009
An Evening With the Editor
… On November 15, 2007, loyal magazine donors gathered at Loeb House in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to hear Harvard Magazine editor John Rosenberg present "The Making of Harvard Magazine: How Your Alumni Magazine Is Edited, …
Destroying Childhood
… A child has been killed in war every three minutes during the last decade. Many were not civilians. Irregular armies … soldiers. They are the shock troops, the cannon fodder, often drugged or drunk on the battlefield, brutalized to … and the author as well of Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, takes as his …
Issue: September-October 2005
Widsom of the Aged
… celebrations, Primus could not devote full attention during the pomp-cum-protests that marked this year’s 373rd … But beyond sheer longevity, the elders had some wisdom to offer the relative youngsters who run the University today, … us in our nineties”), citing revolutions in technology, the rise and fall of Nazism, the Holocaust, the endless major …
Issue: September-October 2024
Masha Gessen on the Stories We Tell About Migration
… Masha Gessen seemed to become famous in the United States for the essay “ Autocracy: Rules for … the 2016 presidential election in The New York Review of Books. The Russian-American journalist and author is … in the modern world. The writer’s texts combine decades of reporting on immigration with a clear-eyed, unreserved …
LSD Testing in the 1950s
… In the first half of the 1950s, Henry Beecher of Harvard Medical School oversaw a …
Issue: January-February 2015
Harvard Headlines: In Defense of Weeds, John Tate Wins Abel Prize, and Commencement Humor
… Among recent Harvard-related stories: The Boston Globe ran an article on May 23 on Peter del … a lecturer on landscape architecture at the Graduate School of Design and senior research scientist at the Arnold Arboretum. His new book, Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast: A Field Guide (Cornell), will be featured …
Off the Shelf
… Owen M. Fiss, LL.B. ’64 (Oxford, $27.95). Yale’s Sterling Professor of Law emeritus argues that the commitment to democracy is embedded within the … aspirations of the Constitution.” New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend …
Issue: May-June 2024
From Title IX to Riot Grrrls
… Today’s American girls and young women may be the daughters of feminism, but their world isn’t always the … wants more equality, not difference, between the sexes. The rise of “girl power” and the celebration of …
Issue: January-February 2008