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… Immigrant Children Thank you for the enlightening article, “ From Neither Here Nor There ,” by Lydialyle Gibson, about the work of sociologist Roberto Gonzales (July-August, page 32). He … other identities take its place, often giving rise to tensions and contested spaces. It used to be the …
Issue: September-October 2020
Video: Horse Racing's Exotic Wagers
… In this video clip, Steven Crist ’78, chairman and publisher of the Daily Racing Form, identifies some of the more exotic forms of wagering available to those who …
Pure Fabrications
… in church with Paul Matisse '54 and you will marvel at how the creator has shaped his world. Everywhere you look you … or object that Matisse has made or designed for his home of the past 20 years, on Main Street in Groton, Massachusetts, 50 minutes by car north of Cambridge—his home in a former Baptist church. When …
Issue: May-June 2002
America and Latin America
… George W. Bush is not the first president to make Latin America a personal … to drop the region from his agenda when more urgent issues arise. Latin Americans are not sure whether they prefer … Development Bank, the short-lived bright side of Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, Carter's Panama Canal …
Issue: January-February 2002
University People
… College Dean Designated Rose Lincoln/Harvard News Office Evelynn M. Hammonds Rosenkrantz professor of the history of science and of African and African …
Issue: May-June 2008
Grabbing Flu by the Neck
… Scientists may have found the Achilles heel of flu viruses. Researchers including Wayne A. Marasco, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and …
Issue: January-February 2010
“Doctor Bugs”
… through a Peruvian rainforest looking for ants, Mark W. Moffett, Ph.D. ’87, accidentally sat on a deadly fer-de-lance … Kenya, and India, he barely escaped stampeding elephants. Then there was the time in Colombia, while tracking the … for his newest book, The Human Swarm: How Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fail (Basic Books), which was published in …
Issue: May-June 2019
Curiouser and Curiouser!
… enlarged beyond imagination. It’s an experience not unlike the one I wish for our incoming students each fall, the sudden and strange feeling of reaching unimaginable heights and gaining new perspective. Yet I also wish for them humbling moments of awe at the scope of ambition and talent that exists …
Issue: September-October 2022
Lepore and Longfellow
… In "How Longfellow Woke the Dead," Kemper professor of American History Jill Lepore (who also chairs the …
True Crime
… Before Netflix-watchers debated whether Carole Baskin fed her husband to tigers in the … King, before Serial podcast sleuths investigated the murder of Hae Min Lee, and before the televised O.J. Simpson murder trial forever changed the way Americans thought of ill-fitting gloves—all the nation could talk about was …
Issue: January-February 2022
An Undergraduate Life in the Theater
… The Google Calendar listing the conflicts for cast members … fourth is in another play that demands he attend six hours of rehearsal each day next week. I squint at the slivers of white space among the rainbow of “unavailable” blocks, …
Issue: January-February 2015
Museum-Hopping in Latin America and the Caribbean
… Whatever winds and whims may have blown you south of the border, any traveler in the Caribbean or Latin America … at times off-the-wall, so you’re bound to be happily surprised by whatever you encounter here. What next? Walk north …
An Evasive Bacterium
… have begun to wonder if it operates by a different set of biological rules than those they are familiar with. Last year, the director of the National Institutes of Health awarded a special “New …
Issue: July-August 2008
Cambridge 02138
… Bothered by a Blogger If Andrew Sullivan can be regarded as … boggles at how awful the rest must be. His hagiographical profiler writes, “Sullivan’s Catholicism didn’t allow for … Bose’s thoughtful review and commentary. However, I was surprised that he twice characterized Gandhi’s method as …
Issue: July-August 2011
Hugs All Around
… Harvard conducted its 362nd Commencement today. During the morning exercises, the University conferred honorary … is available here) , including José Antonio Abreu (founder of Venezuela’s El Sistema, the music-education and social … disgrace you if your success is mediocre. And if you do not rise to the head not only of your profession, but of your …