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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 …
Yesterday's News
… 1923 The College admits 940 applicants, its largest class ever. For the first time, those in the top seventh of their preparatory schools have been admitted without … surveys its married alumnae to find out "what sort of men [they] prefer to marry." The answer is clear: 53 …
Issue: September-October 2003
Networks, Neolithic to Now
… “ Networking ” may be the defining buzzword for the early twenty-first century. … existed, people had networks. In fact, a growing body of evidence shows surprising persistence in the size and … they are twins or not.) Christakis and Fowler are not surprised to find a strong genetic influence; they say it makes …
Issue: May-June 2010
Ralph Johnson Bunche
… In the fall of 1927, the small group of black students at Harvard learned of the …
Issue: November-December 2003
Interview with the Baby Whisperer
… T. Berry Brazelton , clinical professor of pediatrics emeritus at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and founder of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center at the HMS-affiliated …
"Harvard Medicine": A New Title and Look for the Medical School Magazine
… The REincarnation of Harvard Medical School's magazine has … new look and now titled Harvard Medicine (it had been the Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin ). Mindful that … "tampering with tradition can be tricky," dean and Walker professor of medicine Jeffrey S. Flier reminds readers that, …
Back to the Lab Bench
… since 2001, announced in December that he would relinquish the post at the end of the academic year. The office was created in its modern Harvard form under …
Issue: March-April 2011
Reality 101
… I wore the wrong shoes to my first day of work this summer. I don’t … guess I don’t know what I want.” He nodded, seeming unsurprised. As we got up to leave, he told me that I’d be going …
Issue: November-December 2005
Brevia
… Transition Dante scholar Lino Pertile —Pescosolido professor of Romance languages and literatures, and the retiring Eliot House master—has been appointed director … experience in humanitarian relief and public-health crises, has been appointed director of the Francois-Xavier …
Issue: March-April 2010
Harder Times
… Abruptly, the financial challenges facing Harvard—whose programs, … plant have prospered from the seven-fold-plus appreciation of the endowment in the past 15 years—have attracted urgent … for cutting—and will become more costly as aid requests rise during the recession, and as tuition and fees increase. …
Issue: January-February 2009
Renovated, a Bridge Gives the Charles a New Look
… The Larz Anderson Bridge, finally renovated, spans the Charles River seamlessly again. An au courant addition: new lighting, seen from downriver. … The Charles River, lit … 54085 … Charles River bridge lit up …
Issue: May-June 2017
How Coupons Keep Drugs Costly
… assistance programs are popular ways to save money at the pharmacy counter. But research by Rauner professor of business administration Leemore Dafny, the Jay … often go toward the purchase of those drugs. “I was surprised that there were quite a number of conditions where a …
Issue: January-February 2023
John Adams at Harvard
… Editor’s note: As early-action applicants to the College class of 2021 anxiously await a response, the account of an admissions ordeal in 1751 may offer perspective. …
Issue: November-December 2016
Gloucester’s Beauport Mansion
… is much more than a beautiful house. Touring its maze of rooms offers a romantic exploration of literary and historical themes through decorative arts. It’s also a trip into the …
Issue: May-June 2018
Alone with His Idols
… Mark Feeney's Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief is so well-intentioned, so weirdly ingenious, so full of lively and perceptive tidbits that it's a pity to … and outs of Nixon's career — his way-more-than-six crises. Feeney entitles most of his chapters with the names …
Issue: November-December 2004