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Telegraph Avenue Troubadour
… The groom planned a surprise for his fiancée: a slideshow during the rehearsal dinner. A mix of songs accompanied images of their time together. The last song was one of her …
Issue: January-February 2011
“Wrestling at Every Moment”
… Matthew Aucoin ’12 is unsparing toward his past work, … operas. Half-kidding, he claims, “I’d love to just burn all of it.” He has youthful assurance that he’ll write more and … that if I’m engaging physically with this box, this hunk of wood and metal, it pushes back at me. If I’m just sitting …
Issue: May-June 2015
Jane Mendillo to Depart Harvard Management Company
… today that Jane L. Mendillo, president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company (HMC) since July 2008 , would depart as of the end of 2014. HMC invests the University endowment and … during this period. Today's announcement comes as a surprise, and at a time of transition in the University's …
“This Craving to Fly”
… In a darkened alley next to the Cleveland Public Theatre, the crowd stares up at a … Then she wraps the ropes around her arms and is held aloft, her hands and body free, appearing to float above us … Later, she translated those talents into work as a professional high diver in the gritty underworld of amusement …
Issue: November-December 2006
“Find My Real Husband”
… Arthur Kleinman —Rabb professor of anthropology, professor of medical anthropology, and … ( he has long worked in China ) to explore and enrich the dimensions of care beyond the familiar domains of health …
Issue: September-October 2019
Harvard’s Incredible Shrinking Executive-Education Programs
… During the past decade of recovery from the Great Recession of 2008-2009, Harvard has enjoyed progressively robust …
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 …
Frank Rich on Gay Rights, the Presidential Race, and “Cats”
… New York magazine writer Frank Rich ’71 was the keynoter at the annual Commencement dinner of the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus ( HGLC ) on the evening of Commencement Day, May 24. The dinner took place in Lowell …
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 …
Storytelling with Sondheim
… Act I: John Weidman ’68 spends the first 13 years of his life in Westport, Connecticut, … where he plays Little League baseball and dreams of turning pro. Then he realizes: “There are no major league …
Issue: January-February 2011
Reasons to Run
… continents, and raise money for seven charities. And in the process, she hopes to set a world record. A varsity … loves her job, but says she found herself missing the rush of competing: “I realized I needed to run.” Courtesy of In The Running Erin Sprague at the Beijing Marathon That …
Issue: September-October 2007
Balanced Budget, Benefits Battle
… Following two years of modest deficits, Harvard closed its books on fiscal year 2014, which ended last June 30, some $2.7 million in the black: operating revenue increased 4.8 percent to $4.409 … funding declines and foundation and corporate sponsorship rises (a fundamental fact for Harvard Medical School’s …
Issue: January-February 2015
Harvard Portrait: Jon Hanson
… The first time Smart professor of law Jon Hanson lived on wheels, he was managing a restaurant and sharing a trailer with his high-school sweetheart, Kathleen. The newlyweds had bought the trailer cheap …
Issue: November-December 2015
Literary Warrior
… The study where Mark Helprin writes his novels and short … a fireplace at one end, and some fishing rods hang aloft on display. Everything is in immaculate order. The … things. But if, as we have so many times before, we rise to the occasion, we will not enjoy merely the illusions …
Issue: May-June 2005
Cheerleaders Take Flight
… cheerleaders have become virtually an athletic team in their own right. The transformation of a venerable "school spirit" activity into a daring, acrobatic, entertaining troupe of young athletes took place very rapidly. "When I started …