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Notes from Canaday
… The Crimson Summer Academy (CSA), a Harvard program begun in … in becoming successful college applicants. Graduates of CSA are publicly recognized by the University each year … the campus would be like. Although there were looks of surprise upon the discovery that Canaday has no …
Football 2023: Harvard 38-Columbia 24
… Guess who is in first place in the Ivy League, with its destiny in its hands? Harvard, that’s who. With a 38-24 defeat of Columbia on Saturday, the Crimson, which entered the game … to 7-1 overall and 4-1 in conference play, one game ahead of Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton, and Yale. The Lions fell to …
Networked
… upcoming election, you are 10 percent more likely to go to the polls--and others in your household are 6 percent more … remember it depends partly on its position in a network of words that sound similar. And when a cell in your body … that will supplant the myths. It may come as a surprise that friends’ statements of opinion can have such …
Issue: May-June 2010
Prosperity and Equality
… middle-class incomes, rising inequality, and the purported workforce displacements caused by immigrants, … an Economy for Prosperity and Equality,” featured some of the most interesting researchers addressing these … of scarce talents” (like running a multinational enterprise or creating software that can be used globally) but “ …
Seamus Heaney, Digging with the Pen
… One of the most revealing questions you can ask about any poet has to do with his sense of responsibility. To whom or what does he hold himself responsible in his writing? The poet who replies Nothingwho believes that the concept of …
Issue: November-December 2006
Harvard’s “Treehouse” in Allston
… Harvard announced on December 14 the creation of its first University-wide conference center, which will serve as a gateway to its planned enterprise research campus (ERC) on Western Avenue in Allston. …
Behind the Scenes: As the Country Isolates, Are We All Alone?
… had made reservations a week before, a special treat during the city’s “Restaurant Week,” and we looked forward to … remember one friend’s slight hesitation before giving each of us a hug, and our amusement at how normally the city was … As a journalist, you always hope these kinds of surprises will emerge from your reporting. But the more a topic …
Your Take: The Internet and Social Life
… In the May-June 2010 issue, Undergraduate columnist Spencer Lenfield ’12 assesses Internet forums , asking why their popularity among Harvard students dies out as suddenly … is it simply a tool for procrastination and the avoidance of real, meaningful human contact? See what other readers …
Issue: May-June 2010
Vive Le Corbusier!
… Le Corbusier’s only building in North America, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (CCVA), opened in 1963. It remains extraordinary, and Wiley professor of design Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Graduate School of …
Changes at the Top
… It’s the changing of the University guard, as President Drew Faust steps down and … Bacow, a member elected in 2011 in the first cohort of new fellows as the Corporation expanded from seven …
Issue: July-August 2018
The FOX News Channel News We Can Use
… From an entry in The Republican Playbook (Hyperion, $16.95), containing all … from the White House by cyber satirist Andy Borowitz 80 of www.borowitzreport.com : A wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican National Committee, the FOX News Channel …
Issue: November-December 2006
Art Across the Region
… Fall and winter are the ideal time to visit New England’s many museums. What follows is a selection of what’s on offer from the major institutions to the smaller, more …
Issue: September-October 2013
Eating Ice Cream with the Devil
… In " Pizzazz on the Podium ," from the March-April 2011 issue, Richard Dyer … a bit stodgy" under previous conductors. One example: a set of three lighthearted YouTube videos promoting Ligeti's … Grand Macabre , which turned out to be the unexpected hit of Gilbert's first season with the Philharmonic. View the …
Issue: March-April 2011
At Home with Harvard: Harvard History through a New Lens
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of … the University’s connections to slavery and its role in the rise of eugenics. State police gather in front of Widener …
Controlling AI Influence over Consumers
… that adjust product pricing based on what they know about a buyer—could, in some circumstances, inappropriately take advantage of the public, argue a pair of Harvard Law School scholars who are assessing the …
Issue: March-April 2024