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Pleasing Palates
… The Red House restaurant serves its Mediterranean- and … the perfect place for an afternoon meal amid the hubbub of Commencement and reunion week. Though the menu changes often, the fish is always fresh, as are the salads (which …
Issue: May-June 2011
More Housing in Allston
… apartment building at 180 Western Avenue in Allston. The site lies at the intersection of Western Avenue and North Harvard Street known as Barry’s … to accommodate about 500 Harvard affiliates that will rise at the rear of a parcel fronting 175 North Harvard …
Michael Velchik: “Of a Gate to Harvard Yard”
… The Latin Salutatory is an old tradition at Harvard ( read … width:402] Latin orators "usually exploit the absurdity of talking about contemporary things in an ancient language, … and draw attention to that incongruity," says Pope professor of the Latin language and literature R.J. Tarrant, …
Cambridge 02138
… JUDGING THE DEFICIT DANGER What's good for short-run fiscal policy … New York City I could not have envisioned any discussion of the current American economy or politics that did not … a variety of stories about how the saving rate would rise in step with the government's borrowing, or how …
Issue: March-April 2004
Rooks and Reverse Layups
… Chess was the game Ed Saunders, father of Wesley Saunders ’15, … Hawks). “I was on the help side,” Saunders recalls—the area of the court away from the ball, on defense. When the pass …
Issue: November-December 2014
Unconventional Venture Capital
… ’07, and Mark Zuckerberg ’06, LL.D. ’17, famously created their companies, now Microsoft and Facebook, as undergraduates. And then they took … Coast. Will successor generations of world-changing enterprises come from Harvard—and if so, how will they be funded …
Issue: March-April 2021
The “Father” Father
… Not long ago, while up late reading in the St. Patrick parish rectory, Father Paul O’Brien ’86 … and smelled smoke—not for the first time on the south side of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Once the golden model of an … competition, loss, frustration—and anything else that arises in these volubly emotional games. “It took a couple of …
Issue: January-February 2012
Harvard’s Graduate School Dean Steps Down
… Allan M. Brandt, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences since January 2008, … the quality of our entering Ph.D. and A.M. classes has risen to unprecedented heights, as have the number of …
Shovels in the Ground at Tata Hall
… The name of Ratan Tata, chairman of India's Tata Group , has become a significant one for Harvard: it will adorn the newest building at Harvard Business School (HBS). On …
The SIGnboard
… The harvard alumni association has approved more than 30 … . Harvard Magazine invites SIGs to share news of their activities in this space. (Send items to … HVAO ( www.harvardveterans.org ) invites all members of the Harvard community to join its celebration of Veterans …
Issue: November-December 2011
In “Little Fires Everywhere,” a Custody Battle Ignites the Comfortable Suburbs
… arson by a rebellious teen, Celeste Ng ’02 speaks warmly of her adolescence in Shaker Heights, Ohio, an affluent Cleveland suburb. The high school offered a lot of creative writing classes, she remembers, …
Conferring and Confirming
… Like the rest of the world, Harvard was ready to move past the … As if to show who is boss, the University staged a surprise tribute to those who served during the ordeal as the … online presentation. And then Garber introduced a surprise moment, not in the program: “In these extraordinary …
Issue: July-August 2022
The SIGnboard
… The Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 30 … . Harvard Magazine invites SIGs to share news of their activities in this space. (Send items to … ideally will be first generation themselves (i.e., members of the first generation of their immediate families to …
Issue: July-August 2013
Governance Reform from Below?
… The last item discussed at the May 7 Faculty of Arts and … body like the proposed senate. Top-Down Reform Two crises in the first decade of this millennium prompted the …
The SIGnboard
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has approved more than … . Harvard Magazine invites SIGs to share news of their activities in this space. (Send items to … website, www.harvardveterans.org . We invite all members of the Harvard community to click on the History Project tab …
Issue: July-August 2011