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Gyroball Historian
… In the fall, the Tokyo publisher Asahi Shinsho released a new … title in Japanese, loosely translated as The Unknown Story of Matsuzaka’s Major League Revolution, a 250-page paperback recounting the saga of star pitcher Daisuke (DICE-kay) Matsuzaka’s rookie year …
Issue: January-February 2008
Commencement 372 7/8
… During the baccalaureate in Tercentenary Theatre on Tuesday, May 21, interim president Alan M. Garber told the class of 2024, “On Thursday, we of divergent minds will process together into this space.” …
Issue: July-August 2024
Plants on a Changing Planet
… Maryville , Tennessee, lies near the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, a range home to … going to have the biggest impact in the future.” Expect surprises, Taylor says. The earliest theories about how …
Issue: May-June 2024
Cambridge 02138
… Democracy By selecting favorable evidence and ignoring other sources, you can prove almost anything. That’s what James T. Kloppenberg did in his biased glorification of President Obama ( “A Nation Arguing with Its Conscience, … the Sandinistas than under Somoza, especially with the rise of the Contras--who, said one man, Justo, had cut off …
Issue: January-February 2011
Nouveau Chinese
… East By Northeast is not a typical Chinese restaurant. Rather, the … cook who magically merges Asian comfort food, in the form of hand-rolled noodles, bread, and dumplings, with an intricate mix of textures and flavors in dishes that defy pigeonholing. …
Issue: January-February 2011
“Making Mountains As We Run”
… In honor of President Lawrence S. Bacow’s inauguration, the U.S. Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda S.C. Gorman ’20, … read the Harvard arms, If we took another look? The letters of veritas , Tossed across Three open books, Like eight …
“Generational Pivot”
… Kennedy School Forum event with former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86 , there were echoes of another campus arena: Lavietes Pavilion, the home of …
News Briefs
… Putting the A(RT) in Allston On February 25 , the University … space, was preparing to open, and that curator and arts professional Bree Edwards, formerly director of Northeastern … from the ArtsLab’s temporary location and now home to low-rise buildings and a parking lot. It lies between the …
Issue: May-June 2019
Emma Dench Named Harvard GSAS Dean
… McLean professor of ancient and modern history and of the classics Emma Dench …
Anthropology Anew
… When the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology unveils “All … in understanding the rich diversity of the human enterprise. … 219 … The Peabody's prized collections … The Peabody …
Issue: May-June 2017
Oenophile Par Excellence
… Americans , Clifton Fadiman embodied books and learning in the twentieth century: Simon & Schuster editor; New Yorker book editor, National Book Awards host, Book-of-the-Month Club judge, and, switching media, radio and … and now writing teacher at Yale (and an Incorporator of this magazine)—remembers him in The Wine Lover’s Daughter …
Issue: November-December 2017
Football: Harvard 42, Princeton 7
… With three minutes left to play in the first half last Saturday on a cool, dingy day at Harvard … ’16 (as he lay on his side after slipping) on the end of a five-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Scott Hosch ’16. It was the first of five consecutive possessions on which Harvard scored, all …
Taut and Suspenseful
… In a shootout between the defending champions of the Ivy and Patriot Leagues, the … conversions; the other came when Morris, in a surprise move, lined up at quarterback and rolled out for a …
Issue: November-December 2002
Harvard’s 2016 Honorary-Degree Recipients
… During the Morning Exercises of the 365rd Commencement, on May … and promoting privatization of government-owned enterprises. The grandson and son of generals, Cardoso sympathized …
“A Moral Obligation”
… “I tell people the first 60 years are the hardest,” jokes Charles Berlin … just getting started. “Oh, that sounds like a lot of fun,” Berlin, the Friedman bibliographer in Judaica in … shared with those institutions. “It’s a global enterprise,” Berlin says, “united by one simple goal: documenting …
Issue: September-October 2022