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Film Flopology
… The opening of the 1998 feature film Beloved, produced by … Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison, the three-hour saga of a runaway slave's trials was the most expensive film ever … make about employees. This atypical attitude gives rise to what Caves calls the art for art's sake property. In …
Life’s Beginnings
… Are the inhabitants of Earth the only life forms in the … itself might stimulate new ways of thinking about how life arises. The conditions for life, on Earth and elsewhere With … It seemed impossible that the elegant helix could arise from a primitive chemical soup. “Suddenly the …
Issue: September-October 2013
The Week’s Events
… Exercises, at 11, with poet August Kleinzahler, author of the award-winning Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, and orator Linda Greenhouse ’68, the …
Issue: May-June 2013
Mandela and Annan, What the World Needs Now
… The academic year began with two high-intensity visits by world leaders from Africa. Kofi Annan, secretary general of the United Nations, from Ghana, spent Thursday, September …
Practical Philanthropist
… Bob Friedman ’71 will never forget the moment at the Harlem Children’s Zone when the five-year-old son of a poor single mother announced his intention to attend … into the middle class, he founded the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) in 1979. He was 30 and had just …
Issue: September-October 2012
Touché, Again
… In late March , after winning 19 of 23 bouts in a two-day round-robin tournament, Harvard … home bronze.) “It was really sweet,” Jarocki says. A native of Queens, New York, and the only child of Polish immigrants, she is also a former …
Killer Killar
… Last year, the second most impressive thing about Joey Killar's season was how much of the time he spent not wrestling. Competing at 165 pounds, … wrestled three times in the NCAA championships. Mosley's rise in weight classes does not necessarily reflect an …
Off the Shelf
… Renaissance Italy, by Mary D. Garrard, A.M. ’60 (University of California, $60). A monumental, and copiously illustrated, gendered reading of the interplay of art and nature in the Renaissance, by the …
Issue: March-April 2011
Off the Shelf
… The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind, by … a truly monumental work (753 pages plus references, etc.), the Emory University anthropologist/ neuroscientist/ … behavioral biologist proceeds from the wonders of the young--“Nothing in nature is more marvelous than …
Issue: July-August 2010
"For what purpose?"
… Excerpts from the Commencement address by William H. Gates III, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft Corporation and co-founder and co-chair of the … distant. The emergence of low-cost personal computers gave rise to a powerful network that has transformed …
Issue: July-August 2007
Joining the “Long Crimson Line”
… A round dozen of Harvard students—the largest contingent since 2010—took their oaths of office, respectively, as second lieutenants in the U.S. …
To Improve America’s Schools, Duncan Calls for Stepping “Outside Our Comfort Zones”
… For too long , Americans have been afraid to have the difficult conversations about education, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86 said in a speech at Harvard Graduate School of Education on February 26. As a society, Duncan said, …
Beanpot Originals
… A recent Boston Globe article describes the annual reunion of four men who played in the first … who played in the original Beanpot hockey tourney, or one of the first ones, meet each year before the annual fray. … …
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … … Class notes and obituaries: July-August 2013 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: July-August 2013
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … … 39927 … Class notes and obituaries May-June 2013 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: May-June 2013