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The Everyday Dignity of Helen Zughaib’s Refugees
… Studies (CGIS), Helen Zughaib recalled being asked by the State Department for a painting. Then-Secretary of State John Kerry was about to enter a new round of … and Arab countries—she does so not by ignoring the ugly crises affecting the Middle East, but by drawing out of them …
The Road to Romance
… "I'm at that age where I'm crossing the threshold from high-school-fantasy concepts of romance to the brutal, painful, hopeless world of adult … into the broader sexual revolution, which in time gave rise to coed dormitories and the contemporary notion that …
Issue: March-April 2003
For the Homies
… his poetry beginning in a room with his three younger brothers. If, after hearing his poetry, his siblings respect … that the work will echo and resonate beyond them.” Promises of Gold , released this spring, is already resonating beyond … at least my parents.” Even though Olivarez’s poetry arises in the imagined space with his brothers, and even …
Issue: July-August 2023
Thomas Starr King: Protector of the Union, and Yosemite
… He was the eldest son of a shoemaker turned Universalist preacher. … 15, his father died, but his father’s message, “the gospel of inclusion”—that God loves us all, asking us to do the …
Issue: July-August 2021
Keep Africa on Agenda, Rice Advises
… Although the U.S. government has momentous and urgent problems to confront—the reverberating shock waves of a global financial crisis; continuing conflicts in Iraq … into view during her discussion of China, a country on the rise as “a new power in Africa.” China’s concerns on the …
Harvard Goes South (of the Border)
… Harvard Goes South (of the Border) Mark your calendars for the Harvard Alumni … alumni gathering in London in November 2003, and is part of the HAA's Global Series. For further information, visit …
Issue: November-December 2004
The Gated Menace of "Private Cities"
… Neighborhoods are the building blocks of a metropolitan area. But … and ornate to run-down and dilapidated. The ethnicity of residents often delineates a neighborhood's borders. …
The Source of Human Speed
… swifter than a typical man or woman plucked at random from the street? Isn't it absurd even to compare them? Actually, … Peter Weyand, and others published recently in the Journal of Applied Physiology. In the course of analyzing human runners of varying abilities at top …
Savant of Screens
… ’02, who writes about television and on-line media for the New York Times, got an e-mail from her boss, culture … her hip, funny pieces bristle with fresh ideas. In the fall of 2004, for example, she began her review of the hit … of her reviews the benefit of the doubt. “If I can’t rise to understand why something is interesting,” she says, …
Issue: September-October 2007
Letting Go of the “Ideal” Classroom
… I love the way that patches of wild yellow-rayed goldfields slightly reflect the sunlight of the California coast. The stalks of these wildflowers can …
Celebrating the Classes of ’20 and ’21
… T he University today announced that members of the classes of 2020 and 2021 , who received their Harvard degrees off …
Off the Fast Track
… Slow down, please, said community members comprising the Harvard-Allston Task Force. May we take things one at a time? Of course, said Harvard. The University announced in … feet of floor space—the start of a vast science complex to rise in Allston, on which construction might begin this year …
Issue: May-June 2007
An Animation of the Giant Magellan Telescope
… The Giant Magellan Telescope will be one of the next class of super-giant earth-based telescopes that promise to …
Off the Shelf
… Miss Leavitt’s Stars: The Untold Story of the Forgotten Woman Who Discovered How … on ships. Journalist Garin tells the salty story of the rise of the industry. China Obscura, photographs by Mark …
Issue: July-August 2005
Prophet of Self-Esteem
… John Taylor Canfield '66 dished up his first bowl of Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit in 1993. A native of Fort Worth and a graduate of the Linsly Military …