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Sixteen-Acre Battlefield
… In the first month after 9/11, Larry Silverstein, the … Battle for Ground Zero. In 2001, Greenspan was a University of Pennsylvania graduate student in urban anthropology; she … virtually all the significant players in the resurrection of the area and writing dispatches about it for The …
Issue: September-October 2013
Financial Focus
… “About 75 percent of our revenues are from the endowment, tuition, and sponsored research,” reports Dan … academic year just begun, spending on such scholarships has risen about 90 percent—an increase of nearly $90 million in …
Issue: September-October 2013
Artistic Harvard: The Inaugural Showcase
… A Thursday evening “Musical Prelude to the Inauguration: A Welcome and Celebration,” crafted by the Office for the Arts and held in Sanders Theatre, became a showcase for the making, performing, and professing of multiple arts at the University, featuring …
Wrestling with the Local Culture
… I peered through the opening of the tent, intrigued and anxious. Outside, a tinny amplification of traditional Mongolian folk music reverberated across the …
Cambridge 02138
… video message to alumni, clarifying Harvard’s position on the terrorist attacks in Israel: Is it really so difficult … are there no consequences for blaming the victims of savage brutality for their own suffering and supporting … If our President adds war to this mess, will chaos give rise to revolution? Is there a method to Democrat madness? …
Issue: January-February 2024
Carl Thorne-Thomsen
… The Vietnam War era at Harvard is largely remembered as a time of resistance. In the late 1960s, students burned draft … cards, occupied University Hall, and helped drive ROTC off campus. But before the anti-war movement became daily …
Issue: September-October 2017
It’s Academic (and Other Harvard Concerns)
… A back-to-basics Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on March 4 focused on … students’ obligation to attend and pay attention to their classes, and slightly more rigorous grading options … committee does not expect a QRD course to comprise equally all three domains—it does have unique …
"I see you"
… Excerpts from the Class Day address, on June 6, by Bill Clinton, forty-second president of the United States. Clinton discussed the comedians who … power to do public good than ever before because of the rise of nongovernmental organizations, because of the global …
Issue: July-August 2007
Off the Shelf: Recent Books with Harvard Connections
… Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work, by Colleen … (Harvard Business Review Press, $30). The director of the Business School’s Gender Initiative and the Chapman professor of business administration explore why women, a …
Issue: July-August 2021
Outpointed
… Football isn't like politics. You may lose by the slimmest of margins, but you can't ask for a recount. … defender is linebacker Shawn Parker. Quarterback Rose's rise from obscure reserve to record-shattering passer was …
DNA as Data
… George McDonald Church arrived at Harvard in 1977, nine out of 10 biologists did research without touching a computer. They wrote journal articles on IBM typewriters, not word … DNA and engineer genes, was artisanal. The small coterie of computer-savvy biologists were x-ray crystallographers, …
Issue: January-February 2004
An Imposing Honor for Harvard’s First Black Graduate
… With the unveiling yesterday on its central campus of a nine-foot statue of lawyer, educator, and diplomat Richard T. Greener , the …
Centered on Community
… confrontation (in Charlottesville and elsewhere) occupying the national conversation, Harvard leaders chose to focus on … purposes and values as they welcomed the College class of 2021 and the new academic year. Speaking at Freshman … on a favorite anecdote (“It was on this annual occasion of welcoming the incoming College class that a former dean …
Sophia Nguyen , Marina N. Bolotnikova
Issue: November-December 2017
Soccer Under the Lights
… In early September , the new, illuminated, artificial-turf Soldiers Field Soccer … The artificial surface allows play in a wider range of weather than the natural grass pitch of nearby Ohiri Field (named for star Crimson forward Chris …
Issue: November-December 2010
A Giant's Gift: David Rockefeller gives $100 million for undergraduate education
… G ’37, LL.D. ’69, has made a $100-million gift to Harvard, the largest by an alumnus in University history. Reflecting the convergence of his own lifelong interests and current Harvard … at the time)—and so got his first glimpse of Nazism on the rise. His host family took him on weekend outings to study …