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Harvard Graduate Students Are Getting Ready to Strike
… Last week, the Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Auto Workers … contract agreement with Harvard by December 3, the last day of classes this semester before reading period. The union … over total compensation,” she said. Many other situations arise that complicate top-up pay: in order to get it, …
Le Professeur
… September 14, 2015: Buttenwieser University Professor emeritus Stanley Hoffmann, a renowned scholar of … and European politics who spent his early teens hiding from the Gestapo in Vichy France, died in Cambridge on September … what to do—it doesn’t work. And it only got worse with the rise of the neocons. “The French, for example, get terribly …
Issue: July-August 2007
Mind Sports Rampant
… Master players of chess , bridge, poker, Go, and international draughts … civic life in communities “with an Olympic vision.” The daylong conference, “Bringing Mind Sports into the … and library worlds as well as the game masters. Weld professor of law Charles Nesson, co-director of the Berkman …
Tough Love
… Editor's Note: Nicholas Dawidoff '85 has just published The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the … time, yet years later when he learned of it he was not surprised. "He set himself up as a model that we tried very hard …
Issue: July-August 2002
Elevating Climate Issues
… In early September, as students were settling into their fall classes, the University announced the creation of a new post, vice provost for climate and sustainability, … we’re seeing floods,” he said. “We’ll see sea level rise, we’ll see more heat events”—from global warming that …
Issue: November-December 2021
The SIGnboard: Reunion Week Events
… ) host get-togethers during Commencement and Reunion week. A few early … ’83 (D-Calif) and Joanne Adamson, M.P.A. ’14, deputy head of the European Union’s delegation to the UN. The moderator … will be Sheehan Scarborough ’07, M.Dv. ’14, director of the College’s Office of BGLTQ Student Life. For more …
Issue: May-June 2017
Dropouts
… Harvard may have the lowest dropout rate of any college. Though years off are common, currently around 98 percent of those who …
Issue: July-August 2010
A Milestone for Asian-American Alumni
… Organized by the Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance (HAAAA), the … 15-17 drew more than 400 people from six decades and all of Harvard’s schools ( http://summit.haaaa.net ). “We are immeasurably diverse as a group, yet we share many of the same goals,” said Jeannie Park ’83, who co-chaired …
Issue: January-February 2011
How the Web Affects Memory
… Google and other search engines have changed the way we use the Internet, putting vast sources of information just a few clicks away. But Lindsley professor of psychology Daniel Wegner’s recent research proves …
Issue: November-December 2011
See, Compare, Reason, Decide
… In January , I gathered with hundreds of Harvard alumni and friends in … World Economic Forum. In both places, I was struck by how often conversations centered on the value of the humanities. …
Issue: March-April 2014
Postscript
… September-October 1996 issue, Harvard Magazine published "The Millenial Class," a selection of admissions essays submitted by six successful applicants to the Harvard College class of 2000. The editors' judgment was doubly flawed--this year, …
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Tackling TB in the Field
… Lesotho is a country of breathtaking beauty and heartbreaking poverty. The twin epidemics of HIV and drug-resistant tuberculosis may also make it the …
Issue: July-August 2008
Life, on the Soccer Field
… South Africa, but even with this wet, spitting breeze, the seventh graders at Fezokuhle Primary School are excited … they can play, though, they must take part in a discussion of gender roles, indicating whether they agree with … better-paid jobs than women." The lesson comes courtesy of WhizzKids United , a nongovernmental organization that …
Medicine by Model
… It's a troubling area, the economics of saving lives. Take cervical cancer, for … have spent enormous sums for the prevention and treatment of the disease and have even—unlike the case with most …
Issue: July-August 2002
Stuart Chase
… On a chilly autumn day in 1911, Stuart Chase entered the Boston Public Library and, finding a seat in the … economics section, composed a personal credo. On the eve of his twenty-third year, he wrote of his inner drive: So many are the roads and lanes and …
Issue: September-October 2004