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This Land Was Made For…
… ’73, Ph.D. ’76, and his wife, Eleanor Bliss ’73, packed their stuff into a pickup truck and drove west. They settled in southeastern Utah, near the city of Moab, on nine acres of unspoiled valley land framed by coral sandstone cliffs, …
Issue: November-December 2017
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
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 …
Humans on Horseback
… Throughout much of Eurasia, a single pastoralist culture that thrived … from India to Russia to Western Europe. How could a band of animal herders centered on the grassy steppe north of the Caspian Sea have expanded its …
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 …
Cold Comforts
… Perusing social media in recent months, you get the sense that Russia once again looms as America’s great … there are oligarchs and thugs on all sides. In this moment of high-pitched, heated commentary, A Terrible Country , … in her long, difficult life—the war, the purges, the rise of Stalin and the fall of communism—and shape an …
Issue: July-August 2018
Vita: Edward Rowe Snow
… Edward Rowe Snow ’32 may have been the oldest member of his class, but his career as “Flying … proved him its youngest at heart. Growing up in view of Boston Harbor, in Winthrop, Massachusetts, and lured by …
Issue: January-February 2012
A Life in This World
… The child, we're told, is father to the man, and one might … ("nerdy, squirrelly, yet bold enough within the sphere of a loner" is about it), next to nothing about his … prep school, and reduces his college years to a short list of eminent mentors inside "sumptuous Harvard" (Archibald …
Long Live Harvard
… The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on … Commencement day were 97-year-old Bertha O. Fineberg ’31, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and 103-year-old Philip Keene … Wellesley, Massachusetts. According to University records, the oldest alumni, apart from Keene, include: Walter J. …
Issue: July-August 2006
“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
Bias in Artificial Intelligence
… One of the more startling and instructive documentaries of the recent past is 2020’s Coded Bias , which explores a …
Your Take: The Artful Dodge
… “The Art of the Dodge,” from the March-April 2012 issue, explores new research by Harvard Kennedy School assistant professor Todd Rogers and Harvard Business School associate …
Stand-Up to Simmer Down
… where student organizations vie for superlatives—from the nation’s “oldest continuously published student … campus as OTI— during her undergraduate years. She was one of many students drawn over the years to Harvard’s constellation of improv, stand-up, and sketch comedy groups. These clubs …
Issue: July-August 2025
Hotfoot
… Few sports events are more elemental than a footrace. There is little fancy equipment to tweak, and no one else to … fires, says Daniel Chenoweth ’11--Harvard’s first winner of the Ivy League’s Heptagonal Championship individual crown … there is the pain. “That is a distinguishing characteristic of cross-country and track,” says the harriers’ captain, who …
Issue: November-December 2010
Fresh Italian Delights
… Cow’s heart, lamb’s tongue, tuna belly, and any edible parts of the pig—all are served with great care for the daring diner at Coppa, a newer South End restaurant that offers an imaginative array of Italian tapas and dreamy …
Issue: September-October 2010