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From Punk to the Silver Screen
… at Mademoiselle magazine in New York, Carter Burwell’s mother used to chase down writers like Truman Capote and Dylan … in Burwell’s indelible work as a composer for movies. Think of the snow-blind opening of the Coen Brothers’ film Fargo … architecture.” Spurred by the looming recession and the rise of punk rock, Burwell chose music. He stayed at a loft …
Issue: January-February 2022
“He Found Himself at a Loss”
… For the DeSanctis family, medicine had always been a way of … Moroccan rugs arriving at DeSanctis’s home one day as a surprise thank-you for the doctor’s care. A Harvard Medical …
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 …
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
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 Healthy Tan
… A lotion that tans your skin without exposure to the sun and protects you against skin cancer sounds like the sort of miracle product you’d hear about on a late-night … important impact on public health. Melanoma has been on the rise during the past 30 years. It accounts for 62,000 new …
Issue: May-June 2007
Alumni Cheer on Harvard
… The 2025 rendition of Harvard Alumni Day, which brought … for President Alan M. Garber, who has become the face of Harvard’s fight with the federal government. And while … choral groups serenaded the crowd with “Radcliffe, Now We Rise to Greet Thee.” “No institution is without flaws” A …
Reshaping the Science Center
… A treasure buried in the basement of the Science Center for years, the Collection … offices will fill the second and third. Two stories will rise on top of a roof at the west end of the building, and …
Issue: January-February 2002
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 …
Did Milk Build the Mongol Empire?
… When the sons and grandsons of Genghis Khan ruled the Mongol … How did this nomadic culture—the third such empire to rise from the arid grasslands of the Eurasian Steppe since …
Issue: September-October 2020
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
In the Wake of War [Footnotes]
… Because “In the Wake of War” has been excerpted from a longer text, the numbering of the footnotes that follow does not correspond precisely …
Issue: September-October 2010
The “Dust Bowl” Revisited
… Cal Crabill took one look at the “black blizzard of a cloud” on the horizon and started … storms. “It was earth-colored, way far away, beginning to rise, and perhaps the next day it would be bigger and come …
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
The Character and Language of Pain
… The difficulty of treating pain flows in part from the difficulty people have in expressing and characterizing … bodily pain. “English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear,” she wrote, “has no words …
Issue: November-December 2005