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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
An Intimate Look at Zuckerberg and Other High-Tech Figures
… by businessweek.com columnist Sarah Lacy promises a behind-the-scenes look at the stories of several Web 2.0 entrepreneurs, including Facebook founder … York Times reviewer Katie Hafner decides : Her descriptions of their business meetings come complete with snatches of …
Harvard’s Lowered Voice
… In late May , when Harvard adopted the recommendation of its Institutional Voice Working Group … Student organizations, the source of much of last year’s crises, “are subject to the policies of the schools at which …
Yannatos Remembered
… The last Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) concert James Yannatos conducted, in the spring of 2009, ended with a performance of Brahms’s first symphony—a work that reads like an …
A Deadly Emotional Disease
… Despite remarkable advances in the treatment of mild mood and anxiety disorders in recent … depression do not find relief. An estimated 16 percent of Americans suffer from some form of major depressive …
Issue: July-August 2006
The Day’s Events: Friday, May 29
… Radcliffe Day, and this year’s festivities will include the panel “A Decade of Decisions and Dissents: The Roberts Court, from 2005 to … Ruth Bader Ginsburg, L’ 59, LL.D. ’11, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States . She will …
Endowment Managers’ Pay Reported
… With the filing of its tax return for nonprofit organizations (Form 990) for 2009 in mid May, the University has also released information on the …
Frederick Law Olmsted
… and 1950, Frederick Law Olmsted, A.M. 1864, LL.D. ’93, and the firm he founded shaped many of our nation’s notable open spaces, ranging from New York … to the Berkeley and Stanford campuses and the landscaping of Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital (he chose its site, in …
Issue: July-August 2007
History Is Where the Future Begins
… In May, thousands of members of the University community gathered in Tercentenary Theatre to take part in Commencement …
Issue: July-August 2012
Saving Lives in Ukraine
… says Brooks Newmark ’80, M.B.A. ’84. “While I don’t have an official charity organization behind me, I have a lot of energy.” Newmark, a transplanted American who was formerly the Minister for Civil Society in the government of British …
Preview: Ask a Harvard Professor, Season Four
… great seasons , we’re delighted to bring you season four of Ask a Harvard Professor , starting this Monday, November 1 . E ach week, our editors will interview some of the world’s most prominent scholars, discussing subjects …
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
Picturing America
… Given the current national crises, The Americans, the 1958 book by … a culture in transition: activists and opponents squaring off within a changing racial landscape, people more openly …
Issue: January-February 2021
Dealing with Debt
… The Great Recession fades from memory, but its effects … Nations around the globe still carry its legacy in the form of substantial public and private debt. How governments have … Kennedy School; Vincent Reinhart of the American Enterprise Institute; and Kenneth S. Rogoff, Cabot professor of …
Issue: July-August 2015
Cambridge 02138
… THE STADIUM'S CENTENNIAL I was initially intrigued by the … page 42). The sidebar listed previous carriers of the flag, this somewhat arcane snippet of history. This … Blackall III Providence, R.I. You omit mention of a surprise visit to the Stadium by President John F. Kennedy '40 …
Issue: November-December 2003