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“They Need Money”
… In Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty (Knopf, $24), Jeff Madrick, … Americans seem, mostly, inclined to ignore. At a time of intense debate about income inequality, he puts a face—or …
Issue: January-February 2020
Manchester, Redux
… Manchester, New Hampshire, in the 1980s was no kid’s paradise. “Growing up, we didn’t even come to this part of town,” says Chris Pappas ’02 while touring Elm Street, … brick factories that once filled 137 acres and comprised the largest cotton-textile plant in the country—the …
Issue: March-April 2015
COVID-19 May Be Much More Contagious Than We Thought
… One of the basic indicators for determining the possible course of the coronavirus pandemic is how many other people an …
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
Cambridge 02138
… From Eugenics… I commend the excellent article “ Harvard’s Eugenics Era ” (by Adam … me to run a quick check on the Oregon State Board of Eugenics, which ordered more than 2,600 involuntary … in the Harvard Gazette on November 19, 2015, took me by surprise. That text, by Professor Jonathan L. Walton, identified …
Issue: May-June 2016
Muslim American Life after October 7
… Describing the October 7 Hamas attacks as a “watershed moment,” Asim Ijaz Khwaja, the co-chair of Harvard’s task force on combating anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, … , spoke on Monday evening with Aslı Ü. Bâli, a Yale scholar of international and human rights law and president of the …
Competitive Challenges
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report During halftime of Saturday’s matchup between Harvard and Dartmouth in … title and compete with the best in the Ivy League.” The rise of the Big Green, and their newfound confidence, are …
Health Benefits.2016
… Last fall , when the University announced the introduction of long-rumored … enrolled in the least expensive HMO, the monthly cost rises to $85 in 2016 from $79 this year (7.6 percent; the …
At Home with Harvard: Inequality in America
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about the … I know and what they take for granted catches me by surprise, and their frame of mind entirely astonishes me.” The …
Emma Dench Named Harvard GSAS Dean
… McLean professor of ancient and modern history and of the classics Emma Dench …
Paradise Lost?
… Five thousand years ago in the Mesopotamian marshes, between the Tigris and Euphrates … built an agrarian society, banding together the children of hunter-gatherers in the world's first cities—Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Lagash, Larsa—on the edge of the marshes. From their cradle of civilization, the …
Issue: January-February 2005
Chords from Radius
… a white, affluent audience that is experienced in this kind of music doesn’t light my fire nearly as much as bringing a college student into the concert hall,” says oboist and impresario Jennifer … love to play for young people who put many different kinds of music onto their iPods, enjoy hanging out in bookstores, …
Issue: September-October 2007
Filmmaker Meets Painter
… Renee" is all about family and race and poverty in America. The documentary, premiering on HBO on February 22 at 8 p.m., … the artists, interim institute dean Lizabeth Cohen, Jones professor of American studies and herself a former fellow, said that …
Kiwi Crewmen
… The lineup of the Harvard men’s heavyweight varsity eight this year represents much of the English-speaking world: a coxswain and two oarsmen …
Issue: July-August 2012
“Harvard Guy” Ryan Fitzpatrick Rides High in the NFL
… Led by quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05, the resurgent Buffalo Bills are treating their … resembling a dream season. The Bills had victories in four of their first six games, including an upset of the top-tier New England Patriots, and they lead the …