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We Would Have Known
… by Steve Green Facebook’s recent admission that tens of millions of users’ personal information had been repurposed for … concerns about digital-era privacy. But long before the Internet, “privacy was the language of choice for …
Issue: July-August 2018
Cambridge 02138
… TERRORISM An acquaintance's discovery of a child's crisply done arm on his roof near Ground Zero … page 36) prompt me to write. Your discussants waffled on the salient points of the war on terrorism. They are: … they are addicted only to their cabalistic secrecy, to surprise, and to demoralizing the "enemy" with mere threats. …
Issue: March-April 2002
Assessing Gender and Racial Equality Today
… said Margaret Marshall , M.Ed. ’69, former chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, during an online … has affected the whole country. And then the other, this rise of mass incarceration. And the two things really sort …
Pith Paper
… Painters in southern China in the nineteenth century created the images of their flora and fauna shown above probably as trinkets … around 1912 by Charles Sprague Sargent, the first director of Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum. Starting about 1825, …
Issue: March-April 2009
Brevia
… Spirits of the Law Since January 1999, when then-provost Harvey V. … it, Harvard's policy has been to prohibit "the use of Harvard's name or related images in labeling alcoholic … wage now begins at $10.85 per hour (up from $9.00), and rises to $12.25 to $13.34, depending on job classification …
Issue: September-October 2002
Harvard Alumni Honored for Outstanding Service
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Awards, which recognize … were to be conferred on six winners during the HAA board of directors’ meeting in October. Stephen W. Baird ’74, of Chicago, is director and vice president of the Harvard …
Issue: November-December 2013
Extension School Centennial
… When John Lowell Jr. endowed a series of public lectures in his will in 1835, he stipulated that the Boston-based courses would cost no more than “the value of two bushels of wheat.” This provision is no longer …
Issue: September-October 2009
Harvard Portrait: Amanda Claybaugh
… Academics sometimes say you can see the seeds of an entire career in a scholar’s first book. … “I’ve always felt that’s not true about my book,” says professor of English Amanda Claybaugh about The Novel of …
Issue: May-June 2012
Society's Casino
… In the fall of 2001, Americans drastically revised their travel habits. “Driving went up, and flying went down,” says David Ropeik, director of risk communication at the Harvard Center for Risk …
Issue: July-August 2005
American Society Unglued?
… In 1979, a team of psychologists posted themselves at several stop signs in suburban New York and … capitalists,” as he awkwardly calls his conclusion, will rise to that level. Putnam’s earnest conclusion sounds more …
Your Money, or Your Life?
… which life insurance to buy. He wanted to know what turned them on. “Our job,” he asserts, “is to keep the flame of true desires alive.” Make no mistake. Kinder is a keen … a stereotypical number-cruncher. He meditates for a couple of hours every day and says nothing in life is as real as …
Issue: July-August 2008
Scoring Spree
… In their wisdom, the football gods decreed that the quest for … With two league losses apiece, Penn and Brown were out of contention. For Harvard, still unbeaten in Ivy play, the … none had clinched an outright title before the last weekend of the season. That feat was topped off by a 45-7 blowout at …
Issue: January-February 2012
It’s Complicated
… cultural historian Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz , professor emerita at Smith College, told a packed auditorium at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on April 23. Horowitz’s lecture, part of the University’s 375 th anniversary celebration , …
Harvard Borrowing Goes Green
… The University yesterday issued $500 million in new bonds: … occurrence, but completely within the normal bounds of financial management for an enterprise with annual revenues exceeding $5 billion, debt …
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