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A Sharp Critique of Business Education
… Writing in the September 26 edition of The Economist --certainly no … need to learn that economic history is punctuated with crises and disasters, that booms inevitably give way to …
Toward the Negotiated City
… neighborhoods vibrant, safe, affordable, and nurturing? Do they support different kinds of people living different kinds of dreams? What are the … for the greater good. Today, when inequality is on the rise, Saving America’s Cities warns against easy solutions …
Issue: September-October 2019
Off the Shelf
… What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat, by Louise Richardson, Ph.D. ’89, executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute (Random House, $25.95). “We … chase halfway around Antarctica, and an account of the rise to celebrity of the Patagonian toothfish, a.k.a. …
Issue: September-October 2006
Muse of Movement
… in Holland, Michigan, Dawn Murdock Stenis played sweeper on the varsity soccer teams. Sweepers are the kingpins of a soccer defense: they play at the very back, behind … life. Once inside, they storm more than 100 cardio workout machines (treadmills, elliptical trainers, rowers, bikes, …
Issue: September-October 2010
The Middle Class on the Precipice
… During the past generation, the American middle-class family that … higher costs and increased risks, the old financial rules of credit have been rewritten by powerful corporate … in income has an overlooked side effect: family risk has risen as well. Today’s families have budgeted to the limits …
Issue: January-February 2006
Off the Shelf
… and Warlike Democracies, by William S. Smith (University of Michigan, $70). Harvard, widely known as a liberal … managing director of Catholic University’s Center for the Study of Statesmanship, plumbs the political thought of … promotion of the habit and product, through the rise of activist citizen nonsmokers who waged a fight for …
Issue: November-December 2019
Harvard Confers Six Honorary Degrees
… During the 374th Commencement this morning, Harvard will confer … Richard Alley, a glaciologist expert in the impacts of ice sheets on climate and sea level; Esther Duflo, a … sheets and mountain glaciers are contributing to sea-level rise, and Alley is a leader in figuring out how fast they …
The Black…and the Red
… budget surplus—some $298 million, up from $196 million in the prior year—according to the University’s annual … most recent year now total $769 million—the happy result of the proceeds from the $9.62 billion Harvard Campaign, a … in a uncertain, volatile world. Harvard’s costs will rise as expensive new facilities open, financial aid …
Issue: January-February 2020
The Three Principles of Transformation
… final Baccalaureate ceremony, President Drew Faust spoke to the graduating seniors of 2018 about transformation—both theirs, and her own. While … and experienced firsthand the transformative power of a liberal-arts education against a backdrop of social …
The Harvard Remarks of the Aga Khan
… Lecture at Harvard’s Memorial Church, co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the … Program, on November 12, His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims (and a member of the College … realities that were shaping their lives, including the rise of African independence movements, the perilous …
The Joy of Mentoring—From Thousands of Miles Away
… over a year ago , I clicked send on an email that signaled the start of one era and the end of another. I confirmed my acceptance … Christmas gift: a shiny new iPad. Michael, looking surprised, thanked me for the gift. Then I sheepishly divulged …
Staging the Women's Movement
… Gloria: A Life, at the American Repertory Theater January 24-March 1, is not a … and personal journey to tell the wider, collective story of the modern women’s movement. The play is based on Mann’s … and sexism, that she faced and has chronicled. Her rise during the 1960s and ’70s as the glamorous spokeswoman …
Issue: January-February 2020
Harvard College Announces Class of 2025 Admissions Decisions
… The College has admitted 1,968 of 57,435 applicants to the … percent last year —the arithmetical result of an enormous rise in the applicant pool, up more than 17,000. That is …
The New Republican Mavericks of Cambridge
… few months,” says Declan Garvey ’17, president of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC). A year ago, the members … when they didn’t,” he explains. “And I was subsequently surprised and even more annoyed when the Yale Republican Club …
Campaigning in the Digital Age
… The New York Times gives a glowing review to a new book by Garrett M. Graff '03, one of this magazine's former Berta Greenwald Ledecky … to Barack Obama's success at on-line fundraising and the rise of left-leaning blogs such as Daily Kos. In addition to …