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Teaching Israel/Palestine at Harvard
… 7, 2023, more and more Harvard students are considering the relations between Israelis and Palestinians. The topic … this contested history in a classroom setting. Frost professor of Jewish history Derek Penslar has taught university …
Doctored Research?
… The news, reported in the November 14, 2002, issue of the … among 23 industrialized countries. The medical enterprise pretends to care about our health, but it cares much …
Issue: November-December 2003
Harvard Overseer Candidates’ 2025 Priorities
… YEAR, Harvard Magazine asks candidates for Harvard’s Board of Overseers—one of the University’s two governing boards—to answer the … being willing to elevate issues and perspectives as they arise. The Board also brings perspectives external to the …
Yesterday’s News
… 1920 The Harvard football team, playing its first and last … the 50-year old “Commons,” a money-loser since the end of World War I. Plans for the hall’s future employment, say … with a lively interest.” 1930 Applications from members of the class of ’31 for places in Dunster and Lowell Houses …
Issue: January-February 2020
Writing as Performance
… The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a … an aria or dancing a jig—is to understand the nature of the occasion. This particular occasion, the Gordon Gray … passionately about—writing—and, indeed, about that aspect of the subject to which I have given the most sustained …
Issue: September-October 2007
Cambridge 02138
… working to reduce incarceration, I was thrilled to see the profile of Bruce Western’s work on the deep injustices wrought … 50 states plus the federal government. I was somewhat surprised, however, that an academician like Bruce Western would …
Issue: May-June 2013
Free to Fly
… Inside the conservatory , it doesn’t take long for one of them to … you? If you stand very still like a statue, it will.” Part of the charm of the Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory, in …
Issue: November-December 2023
Divertimentos and Democracy
… Mounted on the wall of the botánica next door, where the devout can buy … pizzicato , then made the voices of their instruments rise and intertwine sinuously—all without a baton to cue …
Issue: January-February 2015
Better Living through Evolution
… François Jacob, one of the pioneers in molecular biology, was interviewed a few … motor that drives the flagellum in bacteria must have arisen instantaneously as a result of purposeful and …
Issue: November-December 2005
Protecting Special Places
… Warren M. "Renny" Little '55 and his siblings spent their childhood summers swimming in the Essex River on … Div '26, and Nina Fletcher Little, pioneering collectors of American folk art, whose Essex home was crowded with … in private and public conservation efforts has risen significantly since 1950, when, according to the …
Open Book: GOP Polarities
… and shape-shifting role in American governance: think about the realignment of allegiances to the Democratic and Republican banners in … South during the past half-century. With an election in the offing, scholarly perspective may be particularly useful. …
Issue: November-December 2014
Slaves’ “Private Arenas”
… Combining forces, Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Fletcher University Professor, and Maria Tatar, Loeb professor of Germanic languages and literatures and of …
Issue: March-April 2018
The HAA’s “Diverse Alumni Family”
… something new every day,” says Susan Morris Novick ’85, the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). “Harvard has always been a great place to do that, and it is one of many reasons that I keep coming back.” The Long Island …
Issue: September-October 2017
Voluptuous Sunday
… They ravish the eye. They intoxicate the nose. For more than … Sunday” festival at the Arnold Arboretum to revel in one of North America’s oldest and largest collections of lilacs. (The ladies above are taking them in in 1926.) …
Issue: May-June 2012
Dumebi Menakaya Shoots Secrecy
… Nzuzo I initially appears as a reflection, but it’s not. In the photograph, two women with short, curly hair and long … on the other’s arm as if to steady herself. The focal point of the picture—the space where the women’s faces lie—is … found out how much she’d taught herself, they were surprised. They didn’t understand how she shot without a light …
Issue: March-April 2023