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Issue: March-April 2015
Debtor Nation
… granite countertops: you name it, we’ll buy it. To finance the national pastime, Americans have been borrowing from … on an increasingly stunning scale. In 2006, the infusion of foreign cash required to close the gap between American … of GDP. Larger deficits over the medium term may arise as a consequence of what Cooper calls “a demographic …
Issue: July-August 2007
The Undergraduate: Dear Younger Self
… I’m anxious, upset, bored, or overly philosophical. And as of this column’s writing I’m simmering in pre-senior-year, … time-travel advice can only be given fictively to myself in the past, these are the thoughts I wish I had been able to … (see: “My Families,” May-June, page 52). I’ve also been surprised by which people I’ve stayed close to from high school, …
Issue: September-October 2013
The Classes
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Issue: January-February 2015
Engagement and Distance at the HILT
… The third annual Harvard Initiative for Learning and … as more than 300 participants from across the University—professors, administrators, learning and teaching … year’s theme: “Engagement and Distance.” The importance of student engagement—“when they are challenged, when they …
Roundball Quarterbacks
… Within the fast-moving controlled chaos of a basketball game, the … the paint under the basket, rebounding, blocking shots, and often scoring dunks and layups. The power forward or four …
Issue: November-December 2013
The Week’s Events
… Andrea Barrett, a novelist and short-story writer. Sanders Theatre. Baccalaureate Service for the Class of 2014, at 2, Memorial Church, followed by class photo, Widener steps. Class of 2014 Family Dinner and Party, at 6. Tickets required. …
Issue: May-June 2014
Writers and Artists at Harvard
… Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, the preeminent poetry critic, has served on the faculty’s … epic and tragedy—Achilles, Oedipus, An tigone—and the crises of consciousness they embody—have been felt long after …
Issue: November-December 2012
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 …
The Classes
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Issue: November-December 2014
Reviving Black Classical Music
… In the mid-1850s, a blind, enslaved boy sat down at his owner’s … and sheet music made him the highest-grossing pianist of the century, but all the money went to his enslaver (or, … albums in addition to performing live, but the gigs comprise most of his musical income: his albums barely make …
Issue: November-December 2023
Toobin on the High Court
… Toobin ’82, J.D. ’86, who writes on legal matters for The New Yorker and appears on CNN as a legal analyst, gave … whose books include The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (2008) and The Oath: The Obama White … Law School dean Elena Kagan, now an associate justice of the Supreme Court, had once received a disappointing …
Off the Shelf
… Roosevelt’s Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party, by Susan Dunn, Ph.D. ’73 (Harvard, $27.95). The author, professor of humanities at Williams, dramatically narrates FDR’s 1938 …
Issue: November-December 2010
Arnold Arboretum Turns 150
… “It smells like cake,” says the Arnold Arboretum’s keeper of the living collections, … sugar, cotton candy kind of smell.” The seeds that gave rise to this delightfully scented katsura ( Cercidiphyllum …
Issue: March-April 2022
Off the Shelf
… Up on the Roof: New York’s Hidden Skyline Spaces, by Alex MacLean … principles, examining the Revolutionary War-era financial crises and the solutions crafted by Alexander Hamilton, … Press, $26 paper). Essays on language—rich in surprises because they are not necessarily about the words you …
Issue: November-December 2012