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A Coddled Campus?
… About 30 of us packed into our Adams House suite to watch the election returns: roommates, girlfriends, buddies, friends of friends, strewn across Craigslist-procured couches, the …
Issue: March-April 2017
Harvard’s Stake in the Fisher v. Texas Affirmative Action Case
… fears at Harvard and elsewhere that it might strike down the use of race in admissions, the U.S. Supreme Court today upheld the University of Texas (UT) at Austin’s affirmative action program in the …
Living with Modern Furniture
… II veterans. Its simple, functional lines perfectly suit the couple’s mix of mid-century modern furniture, which includes a red, … chair by Harry Bertoia, an elegantly proportioned Danish sofa by an unknown designer, and a high-backed, padded …
Issue: March-April 2006
Benning Wentworth
… When Benning Wentworth, A.B. 1715, retired as royal governor of New Hampshire in the summer of 1767, he was one of the richest men in New England. That …
Issue: November-December 2004
Targeting Cancer
… Linnea Olson tells her story—of repeatedly facing death, then being saved by the latest precision … solid tumors because of tumor heterogeneity. Heterogeneity arises from genetic differences among cells in a single …
Issue: May-June 2018
Harvard Goes Gaga
… Lady Gaga may have been the center of attention at the event held today to announce the launch of her Born This Way Foundation , but the foundation’s …
A Taste for Extinction
… The island nation of Madagascar boasts not only one of the highest levels of species diversity on earth, but … puma. Golden also discovered that the price of wild meats rises the greater one’s distance from the forest, confirming …
Issue: July-August 2005
Like Garlic or Burning Matches
… Napalm, indelibly associated in modern memory with the horrors of civilians bombed during the Vietnam War, emerged from a … the gel’s origin. America’s first Independence Day of World War II was idyllic at Harvard University. On campus …
Issue: May-June 2013
Atul Gawande Harvard Alumni Day Speech
… I know why. Lately, I too have been hungry to connect with others in this community. Certainly, this is a chance to … this institution in a perilous time. Let me tell you some of what I have seen. I am a child of Indian immigrants who’d come for medical training, and I …
“Out of the Ashes”
… In the middle of Shin Sang-ok’s 1958 film The Flower in Hell , a Korean woman dances for a group of American soldiers on a U.S. Army base in Seoul. Behind … their day off from work derailed by various unexpected crises. Like The Flower in Hell , the film is characterized …
Photographs and Blackness, Barkley L. Hendricks
… Known for bold, full-length paintings of urban black Americans, artist Barkley L. Hendricks was … at Yale and a teaching career at Connecticut College, the debonair artist rarely traveled without his camera. Thousands of images, catalogued since his death in 2017, inspired …
Issue: May-June 2022
Undergraduate Education Overseers
… The committees charged with leading the Faculty of Arts and … of four working groups. Each committee will ultimately comprise eight faculty members, two undergraduates, one graduate …
Issue: May-June 2003
Bricks & Politics
… summer day, 10 Boston-area architects pile into a van together and drive around for hours looking for beauty. Lately, … they haven’t been finding it at Harvard. They are members of a jury assembled annually by the Boston Society of … adjacent to Peabody Terrace, the complex of low- and high-rise buildings constructed in the 1960s to house graduate …
Issue: September-October 2007
Nancy Pelosi: “At Last We Have a Seat at the Table”
… Nancy Pelosi’s very first meeting at the White House after she became the first woman chosen Speaker of the House of Representatives, in the 110th Congress, was unlike any …
Yesterday's News
… 308th academic year opens July 6 with an enrollment of 1,782 civilian students (rather than the normal 8,000) and nearly 6,000 army and navy … from the Allston Burr bequest to begin construction of an outdoor ice rink and artificial ice plant on Soldiers …
Issue: July-August 2008