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Meet Harvard’s Undergraduate Authors
… Summer Fellow Ryan Doan-Nguyen has been tackling a variety of writing assignments for the magazine. Here, he interviews four fellow students who … due to “potential serious complications that could arise at elevations above 5,000 feet, the environment, daily …
Harvard Business School Building Boom Continues
… The cranes keep coming. Harvard Business School (HBS) dean … Chao and Family Foundation will support replacement of Kresge Hall with a new executive-education facility ($35 … a New York-based shipping, trading, and finance enterprise. He and his late wife had six daughters (listed by …
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… ADDRESSING CASTRO Thank you for Professor Jorge Domínguez's ironic and interesting look at the U.S.'s relationship with Cuba since the revolution came … Thanks to Senators Helms and Burton, the embargo on fax machines, and vetoes on IMF membership, Fidel reigns …
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… 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
A Fragile Relationship
… At a time when the United States is preoccupied with its relations with … own relationships with one another. As Ezra Vogel, Ford professor of the social sciences emeritus, so brilliantly argues in …
Issue: July-August 2019
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… 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
A Prescription for Change
… M.D.-M.P.P. '92, is hard at work, cruising briskly down the Bronx River in a homemade wooden dinghy. Despite the … recycling center around the bend, the constant rumble of cars on a metal expressway bridge spanning the waterway, … Dorsey works in an air-conditioned office, in a high-rise building near Grand Central Station. Today, though, …
Issue: September-October 2004
Behind the Scenes: Ask a Harvard Professor Podcast
… was nervous . As a writer, I’ve been asking scholars about their research for a decade and a half now, and I knew these … two scholars already—I’d spent hours speaking with each of them for “The Mystery of Smell,” one of our November-December features. But …
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… M.L.A. ’97 (Aperture, $80). Misrach’s 1998 photographs of the lower Mississippi River, from Baton Rouge to New … change, the fate of their faculties and education enterprise is especially fraught today. An Enlarged Heart: …
Issue: January-February 2013
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… Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary, edited by Steven R. Weisman (PublicAffairs, $35). The scholar (former professor of education and urban politics), adviser, …
Issue: January-February 2011
The Lit City
… rent-controlled apartment/artist’s studio in Manhattan to the Harvard Club to play squash. His work had already been … While crossing a street, Reist looked up and spotted a rooftop water tower, bathed in the sunset’s orange light. He … ). But Reist, who in 2002 moved upstate to the town of Peekskill, says that the particular urban settings of his …
Issue: January-February 2014
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… What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, by Michael J. Sandel, Bass … wanderings by casual photographer Charles Cushman, comprise an amateur visual history in the best sense of the …
Issue: July-August 2012
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… The People’s Courts: Pursuing Judicial Independence in America , by Jed Shugerman, assistant professor of law (Harvard, $35). At a time when judges are objects of …
Issue: March-April 2012
Carrie Lambert-Beatty: What Happens When an Artwork Deceives Its Audience?
… WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A WORK OF ART DECEIVES ITS AUDIENCE? The term “parafiction” refers to an artistic performance or … project, she writes "Over three decades that saw the rise of the internet, the globalization of capitalism, the …
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… $26.99). Oncologist, writer, and policy adviser, the author, now at the University of Pennsylvania, rebuts critics of “Obamacare” in his subtitle: “How the Affordable Care Act …
Issue: May-June 2014