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The Urban Jobs Crisis
… Editor’s note: Background information on the charts accompanying this article (Figures 1 , 2 , and 3 ) appears in the text below. In his State of the Union Address on February 13, President Barack Obama … have seriously diminished the earnings and job stability of many working Americans whose skills have not kept pace …
James M. Quane , William Julius ... , Jackelyn Hwang
Issue: May-June 2013
Sowing Seeds
… An early-November walk along an earthen path in Wakouktaw led around the edge of a paddy—the monsoon rice heavy and ready for harvest—to … (adding cucumbers and beans). Their income, he said, has risen fivefold, to $1,500 a year. Beyond expansion, that …
Issue: January-February 2014
Extracurriculars
… Enjoy nature this winter: take a brisk walk in the Arnold Arboretum, view the stars from the Harvard College Observatory, or learn about the nature of evolution at the natural-history museum. Or take time out … February 4 at 4 p.m. Author Vivian Gornick talks about “The Rise and Fall of the Jewish-American Novel.” Radcliffe …
Issue: January-February 2008
John Lewis Named Harvard Commencement Speaker
… Congressman John Lewis, LL.D. ’12 —a towering figure in the U.S. civil-rights movement who has represented Georgia’s Fifth District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1986—will be the principal speaker … Laws degree attests; on that occasion, in reference to his rise from his birth to sharecroppers to his leadership in …
The 2020 HAA Award Winners
… Six alumni have received HAA Awards for their outstanding service to the University. J. Jacques Carter, M.P.H. ’83, of Brookline, Massachusetts, has served as a teacher, … Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (where he is a founding member of the …
Issue: November-December 2020
A Blossoming Centennial
… One by one, in the course of a decade, the masterpieces emerged, each as … Ducks plunge from icy branches into a winter pond. Schools of sweetfish dart between the submerged roots and stems of …
Issue: March-April 2012
Cambridge 02138
… Economic Action Concerning the post-bubble economy ( “After Our Bubble,” July-August, … for Medicare for all retired people between 62 and 65 years of age. Many would retire who otherwise would fear that … to the College with exaggerated résumés that simply don’t rise to Wheeler’s enormous level of falsehood? Another …
Issue: September-October 2010
No Easy Answers
… Hundreds of listeners tuned in Thursday evening for an online Harvard-community discussion, led by Bass professor of government Michael Sandel, on the ethical, social, and political questions provoked by the …
Three for the Mode
… as a thoughtful and articulate soloist. But despite the range of company he’s kept throughout a five-decade career in … he became a bandleader in the 1960s. “The interpretation of the song is in my hands,” he explains. “At the same time, …
Issue: September-October 2012
Yesterday’s News
… 1920 The Faculty of Arts and Sciences accepts recommendations from the Committee on Admission that make it easier to admit … who might have been barred “by…merely technical defects of school and examination records.” 1935 Signs of spring: …
Issue: March-April 2015
Back on the Field
… just three months after surgery, Michael Fucito ’09 took off running at the base of the stands, barely breaking his stride as he kicked a …
Issue: September-October 2008
A Literary Wake for the Obama Era
… The United States themselves are essentially the greatest … poem,” Walt Whitman claimed in the preface to Leaves of Grass . He went on: “Their Presidents shall not be their … as yet to be confirmed literary figure that will be a surprise to everybody. If this person says yes, I’ll be …
“Authentic” Versus “Constrained” Choices in the Classroom
… A professor in an introductory science course discovers that some students are falling behind in their work, apparently because they haven’t bought the … textbooks for the term, and providing it. Related issues arise, too: supporting students’ travel from home to campus …
Yesterday’s News
… 1914 The outbreak of World War I traps more than 40 faculty … to 30 traveling fellows in Europe and sends at least two professors with French citizenship home to fight. 1939 … Hall, where Harvard’s presidents have worked since the building opened in 1815, to newly refurbished …
Issue: July-August 2014
Dazzlers
… The English essayist and critic William Hazlitt gazed on the white marble sculptures of antiquity and thought them cold. “[T]he finest statue in … health or life or motion, accords admirably with the repose of the tomb.” He should get a look at this. “I knew, of …
Issue: November-December 2007