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Back to Basics
… In the liner notes to the John Adams Earbox, 10 compact discs of works, primarily orchestral, by John Adams '69, A.M. '72, … be stimulated by another's discovery. Minimalism was a profound breath of fresh air in a world of increasingly …
The Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center
… The Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, Connecticut, offers year-round programs, is home to a six-acre organic … Sher. A popular annual meditative retreat, “The Gift of Silence,” runs from Christmas Day to New Year’s Day, and …
Issue: January-February 2012
Research on Hold
… Hours after the federal government froze $2.2 billion in research … secure emergency funding, pausing work, and bracing for layoffs. Among the first to be affected was Given professor of immunology and infectious diseases Sarah Fortune, …
Off the Shelf
… Someone is going to be president; the winner might consult We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative , by George J. Borjas, Scrivner professor of economics and social policy (W.W. Norton, $26.95), to …
Issue: November-December 2016
The Housing Revolution
… Down we went , into the basement of Pforzheimer House, ducking under low-hanging … walls, past the occasional painted poem or mural of a Pfolar bear, the House’s arctic mascot. The four …
Harvard and Arts and Sciences Campaigns Exceed 50 Percent of Goals
… The $6.5-billion Harvard Campaign, launched on September 21 with $2.8 billion of pledges and gifts in hand, has raised an additional $900 … million of support for “faculty and the scholarly enterprise” (for which the goal is $600 million): to endow faculty …
Off the Shelf
… Immigration Economics, by George J. Borjas , Scrivner professor of economics and social policy (Harvard, $49.95). A Kennedy School scholar’s technical synthesis of the theories and models used to analyze the flow … thought it meant. The Barbara Johnson Reader: The Surprise of Otherness (Duke, $99.95; $28.95 paper). A collection …
Issue: September-October 2014
True Grit
… Ryan Fitzpatrick '05, the football team's multi-talented quarterback, is a gamer. … weekend, throwing four touchdown passes in a 37-19 blowout of the Bulldogs. "He couldn't run, he was playing on … consecutive victory over its Connecticut rivals topped off a 7-3 season and left the Crimson in a tie with Yale, …
Issue: January-February 2004
Passions at Play
… capacity for accretion and solidification, in its quality of representing, in all its details, the personalities of the people who live in it." And … ball-playing), a plush seating area with cardiovascular machines, a sauna, and a family game room. Upstairs, …
Issue: March-April 2005
Burgers, Fries, and Kohlrabi Remoulade
… next to a convenience store on a busy street, not far from the Arsenal Mall, is a welcome antidote to the market-research-driven restaurants that often pass as “fine dining”—even in Boston. Thank goodness … pepper paste, lent zing. The kohlrabi remoulade ($8), comprised strips of raw vegetable, sliced green onion, and diced …
Issue: September-October 2013
FAS Details Debt, Financial Challenges
… In preparation for a faculty meeting on December 9, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith released an " FAQ About the Endowment " on December 5. It follows up and … distribution rules, it is known that the payout rate will rise (as President Drew Faust and Executive Vice President …
The Harvard Globetrotters
… Last Saturday in Shanghai, the Harvard men’s basketball team played a rematch that was … making. And although the Crimson lost the game, the event offered a glimpse of how far the team has come. Back in 2007, Stemberg men’s …
Making Modernity
… Thomas professor of history of art and architecture Joseph Koerner, an affiliate of the department of Germanic languages and literatures and a … the mirror. But in Beckmann’s hands, the frontal view gives rise to a highly complex image of the human face, as we’ll …
Issue: November-December 2015
Off the Shelf
… by Charles D. Bailyn, Ph.D. ’87, JF ’90 (Princeton, $34). The Giamatti professor of astronomy and physics at Yale (and inaugural dean of …
Issue: January-February 2015
The Senior Alumni
… The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present at Commencement were 94-year-old Evelyn Richmond ’41, of Nashville, Tennessee, who was accompanied by her son, … wife, Margaret Rothschild ’65. Both were recognized during the afternoon ceremony by HAA president Cynthia A. Torres …
Issue: July-August 2015