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Good Design
… In June 1968, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) invited … The New Carver Apartments , the second of the three, rises next to the Santa Monica Freeway like a cylindrical …
Issue: March-April 2015
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… THE NEW IMMIGRANTS The images of today’s poor, hardworking illegal immigrants (Ashley Pettus, “ End of the Melting Pot? ” May-June, page 44) excite our natural … “new immigrants” assimilate faster than the old ones and rise about as fast. More irritating are the photographs …
Issue: July-August 2007
Clock Enthusiast
… David Bisno ’61 has time on his mind these days – timekeeping, that is, as well as a mini-museum of horology that he has inaugurated in the clock tower of the picturesque Santa Barbara Courthouse. Thanks to “a …
Issue: September-October 2012
Cancer’s Global Toll
… with leukemia has an approximately 90 percent chance of survival, but in the world’s poorest nations, 90 percent of such children die of the disease. This disparity was at …
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… 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
Celebrating the Arts at Harvard
… The annual arts extravaganza sponsored by Harvard offers … minority inclusion and gender identification—that have arisen at Harvard and other universities, especially within …
Issue: March-April 2016
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… approach. To suggest that some people are better off burning gasoline if they care about the environment is dangerously … to argue that preservation is responsible for the resulting rise in housing costs driven by demand? Most professionals I …
Issue: November-December 2022
Irish Pictures
… This year’s Irish Film Festival at the Somerville Theatre features Gold, about an estranged … father who returns to his family and nearly wrecks all of their lives. It’s a roaring good comedy, at least to many … and others who enjoy the country’s traditional brew of offbeat, dark, or piercing works. “When you’re done with …
Issue: March-April 2015
The Method to (March) Madness?
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report The exchange began … to the basket. The question captured a nuance in Amaker’s offense, but it also seemed unlikely that the fate of anyone’s season would hinge on Amaker’s response. Yet …
Eating for the Holidays, the Planet, and Your Heart
… As the holiday season approaches , deciding what to put on your … significance—not only for your health, but for the health of the planet. Does your Thanksgiving dinner make any difference in the vast and complicated context of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change? No, really: …
When Fantasy Isn’t Enough
… Ever since documentarian Lance Oppenheim ’19 first heard of The Villages, as a child growing up in south Florida, he’d been intrigued by the place. Often referred to as “Disneyland for seniors,” it is a …
Issue: March-April 2021
Beauty from Disarray
… Judith Brodsky’s entry into the art world began with a hand-drawn circle. Then a young wife and mother just years out of Radcliffe, Brodsky ’54 traced a radius around a map of her home in Princeton, New Jersey, and considered how far …
Issue: September-October 2016
Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status Threatened
… In two further developments in the federal government’s demands of Harvard, Internal Revenue Service acting chief legal counsel Andrew De Mello has been asked by officials in the Treasury department to begin the process of …
Finding Sunshine in the Slum
… It’s important to be fleet of foot in Kibera. Traversing trash piles, bobbing and weaving along the edges of open sewers, one must take care to step on dry ground …
Issue: November-December 2009
A Roadmap for Reforming Civic Education
… Several months before the invasion of the United States Capitol threw the nation’s seat of legislative power into peril, the Annenberg Public Policy …