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The State of Harvard’s Arts and Sciences
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Hopi Hoekstra and colleagues issued their annual financial and other reports during an Election … also broaching other matters—among them, the desirability of students actually attending the classes in which they are …
Allende, Bloomberg, Bush, and Stiglitz: The Honorands
… During the Morning Exercises of the 363rd Commencement, on May … Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2011 —it would surprise no one if Franklin broke into song. Patricia King, J.D. …
A New Head Curator for the Harvard Art Museums
… The Harvard Art Museums has named Soyoung Lee, an expert in Korean art and curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, its new chief curator, effective September 24. Lee’s … involve loans from international institutions. For some of her Korean art exhibitions, she explained, government …
Vita: Henry A. Murray
… “The spontaneous propulsion of [my] thoughts by the sanguine … his creed. (This vitality extended beyond academic enterprises; although married, he had a lengthy affair with his …
Issue: March-April 2014
Power, Petitions, and the People
… At a time when the federal government seems distant and Congress gridlocked … voice is heard? Daniel Carpenter thinks so: his study of citizens’ use of petitions in the past suggests that direct contact …
Issue: May-June 2021
Election Results
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and of the new …
Issue: July-August 2015
The Undergraduate: “Charlie Parker, Who Played the Saxophone”
… I kept my spelling tests from third grade. My mother says this was an eight-year old’s effort to catalogue … know? There are 22, hole-punched in a binder, on the cover of which red gel pen hardened in tall, uneven letters: … make movies. Now chop chop!” I assumed my passion would arise spontaneously, intuitively, perhaps after some …
Issue: September-October 2014
Pizzazz on the Podium
… Alan Gilbert ’89 seems to enjoy whipping up a whirlwind and then taking it for an exhilarating ride. Though only in his … year on the job, the second Harvard-educated music director of the New York Philharmonic has shaken things up at an … less jagged now. The conductor is also prepared to be surprised: to him, his job is both to lead and take in what the …
Issue: March-April 2011
A Ray of Light amid Middle East Devastation
… childhood stories, comes from Antoine Galland’s translation of One Thousand and One Nights. In the story, it is spoken to open the mouth of a cave enclosing untold magical treasures. Like Ali Baba …
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
Adamantios Korais
… Adamantios Korais was one of the most insightful European philologists of the late eighteenth-early nineteenth centuries and the …
Issue: January-February 2022
America’s Little Giant
… called her soon-to-be husband, just before she met him, “the great, little Madison.” She was about to turn 26, a … and had been left with their toddler son and a small amount of money. James Madison Jr. was 43, a congressman from … her. She accepted his proposal because he was “the man who of all others I most admire.” The marriage, she wrote, would …
Issue: January-February 2018
“All Climate Change Is Local”
… Within the United States, coastal areas host the densest … the beginning, say planners at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD), who expect climate change to … housing, transportation, public services, and economies” of coastal communities, according to a newsletter from the …
Detective in Pop Culture
… not a “street person,” Bob Egan ’75 is definitely a man of the streets, specifically those of Manhattan. Three decades ago, he bicycled every street on …
Issue: March-April 2013
Telling Humanity’s Story through DNA
… DNA —a scientific approach that has grown powerfully during the past decade—reveals that human history is a story of mixing and migration at a scale and complexity that no … data. The resulting 2010 analysis yielded a stunning surprise: that modern humans had mated with that archaic …
Issue: July-August 2022