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On Caregiving
… teaching hospital, I interviewed a husband and wife, in their early twenties, who had recently experienced a truly … On their wedding night, in their first experience of sexual intercourse, a malformed blood vessel in the … and hope for the future. He smiled at me in a surprised and patronizing way; then he said I was right to …
Issue: July-August 2010
Connecting Body and Soul
… 35-year-old Latina woman with two young children lies in the intensive-care unit (ICU) of a Boston-area hospital, dying from cancer. With no sign … most Americans placing a high value on faith, it’s no surprise that religious and spiritual beliefs can be a source of …
Issue: January-February 2017
Spotlight
… gospel music in Greater Boston. Only this December at the Museum of Fine Arts can anyone tune into the select power of The NEC Millennium Gospel Choir, which features about 100 …
Issue: November-December 2014
Places, People, Policies
… year's American presidential campaign focuses on issues of economic concern to the middle class. Perhaps the Republicans aim at a slightly … and replaced them with inhuman, Corbusier-inspired high-rises. While I don't accept the hypothesis propounded by …
Video: The “Flying Santa” in Action
… Hoagland Hunter’s article on Edward Rowe Snow ’32, from the January-February issue of Harvard Magazine , about the life of the Winthrop High School teacher and maritime writer …
Building Community
… in late October’s wide-ranging conference at Harvard on the future of research universities—design and architecture, digital … event, which took place in the same month University officials released designs for a six-story building in …
Nuclear Weapons or Democracy
… The most fateful object yet to appear on this planet could … top-secret information and tools that enable the president of the United States to launch a nuclear strike. The … to war. Scarry’s book makes clear that the social contract arises from the need to prevent the injuries that people …
Issue: March-April 2014
A Bridge to the Past
… A recent tour of the Eustis Estate, perched on a knoll in Milton, Massachusetts, ends in what the guide calls “the original man cave.” It was the library of William Ellery Channing “W.E.C.” Eustis, A.B. 1871, S.B. …
Issue: July-August 2019
“Tyranny Is Our Foe”
… In the early fall of 1943, World War II was raging in Europe … today, reading the words at the end of his speech can give rise to deep emotions, especially for those of us forced to …
Both Sides Now
… Tomiko Brown-Nagin is a legal historian of what she calls “one of the most celebrated social movements of all time—the …
Issue: January-February 2022
Bao Luong
… day in 1927, 18-year-old Nguyen Trung Nguyet took advantage of her parents’ absence to travel alone to Saigon, covering the 160 miles from Rach Gia by sampan, boat, and train. She … national funeral for a noted reformer. Growing up at a time of strict sex segregation, when few girls received an …
Issue: March-April 2011
Parallel Universities
… Even as Harvard's planning consultants conclude the private phase of their development grid for Allston, it is possible to get … turned up lots of places where new buildings could rise, thus diminishing the need for a new campus. Combined …
Issue: March-April 2005
Peacemakers
… If there is going to be a two-state solution to the … conflict," says Robert H. Mnookin, "the rough outlines of what the deal might be are not terribly difficult to … to court, but through arbitration." Further disputes did arise almost immediately, says Mnookin, "because the …
Issue: March-April 2004
Li Shizhen
… sher-jen) is virtually a household name in China. A kind of patron saint of Chinese herbal medicine, widely lauded by historians and … named him one of his personal heroes, and he has been the focus of comic books, popular songs, TV dramas, and …
Issue: January-February 2010
Harvard’s Endowment Outlook—Updated
… at 11:00 a.m. MIT reported an endowment investment return of 55.5 percent for fiscal 2021, and a 49.0 percent increase in the endowment’s year-end value, to $27.4 billion. Updated … increase in the endowment’s value, which has risen relatively slowly during the past decade, given …