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Eat, Drink, Read
… and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably,” then head straight to the Map Room Tea Lounge, at the Boston … last year in the landmark Copley Square building, and offers a homey hideout—especially during the winter. “People … of blasphemy to read poetry at table,” he asserted in Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life . “What one wants …
Issue: January-February 2020
Cambridge 02138
… STAY-AT-HOME PARENTS As a student and professor at Harvard for more than 14 years, I am well … given up conventional careers to stay at home to care for their children. And yet the lion's share of the article is … the professional accomplishments of these parents, who rise at 4:30 each morning to write books, raise $50,000 for …
Issue: May-June 2003
Financial Crisis, Faculty Perspectives: Part 2
… On the afternoon of September 25, President Drew Faust hosted a … "bad banks" themselves: the whole sector of financial enterprises begs to be restructured. (Rogoff noted that he had for …
Endowment Exit
… celebration, Harvard Management Company (HMC)—which invests the University endowment and other assets—announced that Jane L. Mendillo, president and chief executive officer since July 2008, would depart at the end of this year. Her plan to step down surprised close observers. But the long lead time before her …
Issue: September-October 2014
Nicholas Stephanopoulos: Why Does Gerrymandering Matter So Much?
… Topics include recent state laws that limit voting, the voting-rights bills being debated in Congress, and the current state of “alignment” between voters’ wishes and government … where the votes are counted correctly. So I see the recent rise of election subversion as an issue, as striking at the …
“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 …
Reviewing "Reality"
… The scene, at least the one framed by the family-room proscenium of the television screen, remains indelible. President … allowed me to still feel that rush of anticipation and surprise when the curtain went up,” he wrote. He aimed to write …
Issue: March-April 2007
Glorious “Genji”
… how to read Japanese calligraphy, nor even have taken in the thousand-year-old Tale of Genji in translation, to savor The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion , by Melissa McCormick, …
Issue: January-February 2019
Hit It!
… It's impossible not to know when THUD (The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers group) is rehearsing. … Booming drums, tapping drumsticks, the falling-water roll of a xylophone, the piercing chime of a glockenspiel. Hands beating on music stands, singing …
David Miliband to Address Kennedy School Commencement
… , former U.K. foreign secretary and now president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC)—an organization that provides aid to victims of conflict and disaster—will deliver the Graduation Address …
Harvard University’s 374th Commencement Excercises
… DAY AND ALUMNI DAY Harvard University’s Class of 2025 Commencement Thursday, May 29, 2025 Harvard’s 374th … held on Thursday, May 29, 2025. For information regarding the schedule, tickets, and other details, please visit … program featur- ing a keynote speaker and the recognition of the Harvard Medalists, a festive Yard par- ty, afternoon …
Issue: March-April 2025
Our Founding Grandfather
… Benjamin Franklin , himself a prolific writer of exceptional grace and vigor, would surely be delighted with the vivid accounts of his life that are appearing as his 300th birthday draws …
Issue: September-October 2003
Eyes Opened But Averted
… tickets to Cairo. I had done an about-face in my course of study, shifting from American and British history and … and Near Eastern languages and civilizations, focusing on the twentieth-century Middle East. The decision to head off … parents' stores, the late night calm of Zamalek, even the rise of the early morning smog over the Nile. It is hard to …
Issue: September-October 2004
Helen Keller
… Totally deaf and blind from the age of 19 months, world famous at seven for having … earned satisfactory grades in all subjects; for the bugaboo of geometry, she relied on tactile diagrams made of raised …
Issue: July-August 2004
Design Dispatches: Meshing Past, Present, and Future
… G ’14, set out to create an exhibit representing the first 75 years of the Graduate School of Design (GSD), he hit an immediate snag: how should he …