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Portrait of the Artist as a Director
… The prototype of the silver-spoon baby, Paul Joseph Sachs was born in November 1878 in New York City, the eldest son of Samuel Sachs (a partner in the international banking firm …
Issue: September-October 2002
The Future of Food
… A glimpse of the future of food can be seen through the eyes of Andrew Ive, M.B.A. ’97. He is managing director …
Issue: March-April 2018
The Way of the Critic
… his byline, A.O. Scott) reviewed a big Hollywood release, The Avengers . He praised some aspects of the movie and bemoaned others, specifically “its … director said. “It was overrated.” “The thing that has surprised me is how much freedom there is with this job,” Scott …
Issue: November-December 2019
A Cluster of (Scholarly) Stars
… The Radcliffe Institute, spreading its wings as a center for … with a major research university, is extending the reach of its fellowship program literally to the edge of the … concerns of the physicists and cosmologists might give rise to a new academic locus for common work on campus. But …
Issue: November-December 2002
The Politics of Campus Planning
… city manager for Cambridge, has since 1995 been director of Harvard Planning and Real Estate, where she oversees $500 million of University-owned property. In an interview, excerpts of which follow, she discussed the major physical planning challenges that face Harvard in …
Jodie Foster Honored at Radcliffe Day
… , Oscar-winning actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster received the 2025 Radcliffe Medal, reunited with an old college … “What I hope for people now is that they take the gloves off, and Harvard has shown that recently, and right on,” Foster said, acknowledging that the politics of the last decade have left many people feeling “worn out …
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Twilight of the Lecture
… In 1990 , after seven years of teaching at Harvard, Eric Mazur , now Balkanski professor … who were successfully solving complicated problems. Then he discovered that his success as a teacher “was a … means revamping the entire teaching/learning enterprise—even turning it inside out or upside down. For example, …
Issue: March-April 2012
The Arts: More Than Diversion
… A former harvard president once told me, “The arts may be a nice diversion, but they’re just not that … with which I naturally take issue, numerous alumni have risen to prominence in the arts, media, and in … for greatness in their chosen paths, whether because of, or in spite of, what the University offers them as …
Issue: September-October 2011
The Harvard Medalists of 2015
… Moose, Ph.D. ’68, and Robert D. Reischauer ’63—received the 2015 Harvard Medal for “extraordinary service to the … Alumni Association’s (HAA) annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. President Drew Faust read the citations, printed in italics below. The 2012 recipient of the HAA’s David T.W. McCord ’21 Lifetime Achievement …
Theory of the "Marathon Man"
… You're watching the Boston Marathon, awestruck, as always, by the runners' … the elite runners at the front calmly keep up a pace most of us couldn't maintain for a single lap around the track. … at more-than-respectable speeds. Pulling up the rear, back-of-the-packers come grunting and groaning, huffing and …
Issue: May-June 2003
Death of the Students' Dean
… Archie C. Epps III Jon Chase / Harvard News Office Archie C. Epps III , B.D. '61, Harvard College dean of students from 1971 to 1999, died August 21 of … that showed him being ejected from University Hall during the 1969 takeover, tie crisply in place, Epps is better …
Issue: November-December 2003
“Global Whitemanism”
… a dark book about a dark subject. Walter Johnson burst onto the historical scene with the 1999 publication of his influential Soul by Soul , which positioned the slave … cotton prices that might drop, shipping costs that might rise, credit that might evaporate, paper money that might be …
Issue: September-October 2013
The Story of Teach For America
… if progress was made against poverty. Wendy Kopp thought there was another way to make a difference. She began recruiting graduates of top universities to serve as teachers in the toughest … have taught as corps members—a number that will surely rise again with dozens more expected to join after they …
The Gates of Harvard Yard
… year would bring. As he walked around Harvard’s campus, the beauty of the Yard’s 25 wrought-iron gates immediately struck him. … rather by the buildings that they’re next to. HM: What surprised you most about doing this project? BK: The beauty of …
The Art of Paper
… collaborated on 14 such books with her husband, Marc Brown, the prolific children’s-book illustrator and author (best … health, death, divorce, travel, and more through the eyes of dinosaurs (e.g., When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to … Show (1995), that presented its subject in the guise of a vaudeville show starring zucchini, tomatoes, and other …
Issue: September-October 2012