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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 …
Chapter & Verse
… Thomas Bettman requests the source of a fragment from Hart Crane that he remembers: "The poetry of despair is beautiful, alas, but I must have"... what? …
Issue: March-April 2002
Nuts
… When Primus was a little one, he had the good fortune to live near Broadway in Manhattan. Each … and Dolls. Then we would stroll over to the Harvard Club of New York on 44th Street and sit by the fire in the paneled richness of the place. Even the youngest among us was permitted a …
Issue: November-December 2015
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
Behind the Scenes: Writing About COVID-19
… afternoon, February 21, 1:00 p.m. : a press release about the novel coronavirus arrives via email from the Medical … about the epidemic for several weeks, given the lack of good data. But Harvard’s announcement is straightforward: … develop strategies for fighting the novel coronavirus. I’m offered interviews, late in the afternoon and into the …
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
Making Art behind Bars
… “We are not the exception to the norm—we are actually the norm,” said … Harvard Art Museums March 22 that followed the screening of a documentary about his life and work. “There are so many … what saved him, Krimes said, and then helped propel his rise in the art world once he was released. “I was …
Preserving a Muse
… The House of the Seven Gables, in Salem, Massachusetts, would not be the popular incarnation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 gothic tale of inherited sins …
Issue: May-June 2016
Yesterday's News
… 1922 Sports devotee R.S. Hale, A.B. 1891, suggests to the Bulletin that there be "two Harvard football teams," instead of one, noting that when Harvard plays Yale in tennis, there … latest parody, a mock Newsweek . For the 750,000-copy enterprise, the group dress as Communist Party members celebrating …
Issue: November-December 2002
Does Omicron Cause “Mild” COVID-19?
… Within a few weeks of the Omicron variant’s first appearance in Botswana and South … variants. But that is probably not an intrinsic property of Omicron, argue assistant professor of medicine Roby …
A Green Empire
… When it opened in 1931, the Empire State Building was not only the biggest building … it was—with the tallest elevators ever created—an exemplar of the mechanical age. But recently, the landmark had begun … a billion dollars or more. After securing the agreement of the Leona Helmsley estate (which shares control of the …
Issue: March-April 2012
Neponset River Greenway
… Pope John Paul II Park, in Dorchester, cyclists can hop on the Neponset River Greenway to enjoy scenery—from beaches … neighborhoods to the water,” says Jessica D. Mink, chair of the Neponset River Greenway Council, which has worked for … cool anyone in need of relief. The last leg of the route rises up and over the Canopy Bridge. Stop at the top and …
Issue: May-June 2018
Broken Baseball Bats: A Harvard (Statistician's) View
… The New York Times reports that Major League Baseball has retained Carl Morris, professor of statistics and professor of health care policy, to assist …
Ruth J. Simmons’s Harvard Graduation Address
… - A Time for Commitment Good day and congratulations to the Harvard University Class of 2021. It is a singular honor to be invited to address you … a powerful force that calls us to action when challenges arise. During the 145 years following our 1876 founding, it …
Harvard Graduation, in the Lambert Clan
… “Hunt” Lambert, was only a boy. Today, he serves as dean of continuing education and University Extension (see a profile of him here ). Having been appointed in 2013, he awarded the Extension diplomas for the first time at Commencement …