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Remembering a Harvard Square Fixture
… The new book Design Research: The Store That Brought Modern … many Harvard alumni. The volume, deemed "a loving scrapbook of Design Research and its era," uses narrative, quotations, and photographs to tell the story of the store that brought colorful, modern design to Harvard …
Tiananmen Plus Twenty-five
… On the night of June 3, 1989, and into the morning hours, tens … on salaries, in cities like Beijing, uncontrolled price rises were threatening their ability to make ends meet. Some … can be compromised to “get rich” and for China to “rise.” Such a mentality has become the root of major social …
Issue: July-August 2014
“Working Sisters”
… The massive rural-to-urban labor migration that has been … factors such as famine, war, or the forced relocation of population groups under draconian state policy, migration … Motor Company, but also to a state-owned, socialist enterprise. For young migrants, Yue Yuen offers both stability and …
Issue: January-February 2009
Innovator David Edwards’s New Book on “Artscience” Labs
… McKay professor of the practice of biomedical engineering David Edwards , envisioning the future of artistic-scientific creativity, advocates the …
Home Sweeter Home
… Don’t curb your enthusiasm: Spring is the ideal time to maximize your home’s value, whether by … organization, and mortgage experts in and around Cambridge offer helpful ideas on how to make “home sweet home” even … more energy efficient, says Joseph Kennard. M.Arch. ’92, of Boston’s Kennard Architects. “Low energy consumption is …
Issue: March-April 2020
Why Can't Computers Age With Us?
… when she retired in 1991, as were personal computers in the office. "I was also fortunate enough to have a … as possible." Marketing targeted at older adults is on the rise, Itzkowitz says, and SeniorNet, though a nonprofit …
Issue: July-August 2002
No Doubt
… Liedel ’21 decided she wanted to play soccer, following in the footsteps of her older brother. Her parents said sure, go for it. The … who made it clear that a girl didn’t belong on a field of boys. “They were like, ‘You should not be playing this …
Issue: September-October 2019
Faculty Figures
… One way the constraints on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) show up is in the relatively restrained growth of the faculty itself. From the fall of 1996 to the fall of …
Issue: March-April 2017
Border Crossing
… The story came to him the night he became a father. Author … was published in 2020, 22 years later, as The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez. It has since been honored by the American Library Association’s Booklist as one of the Top 10 best debut novels of 2020 and by the 2021 …
Issue: January-February 2022
The Day’s Events: Tuesday, May 27
… Events for Tuesday, May 27, include the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises, with poet Donald Revell and orator Andrea Barrett , and the Baccalaureate Service for the College class of 2014. For those not able to attend, both ceremonies will …
Mad for Degas
… In 1911 the little Fogg Art Museum mounted the only one-man museum exhibition to occur during his lifetime of works by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (1834-1917). It was … whose chief pre-occupation seems to be…the taking of baths”—seemed to some viewers unworthy of attention. …
Issue: July-August 2005
Daring to Choose
… Daniel Joseph Wilner, 2007 graduate, delivers the Undergraduate English Oration titled “Daring to Choose” … expressed to me a few weeks ago. Genzie was not in the grip of a particular decision. She was decrying having to make decisions at all. She wished there could be some sort of machine with two lights - one green, one red - that would …
"Reasonably Good" Fiscal Results
… Further progress toward moderating the rate of expense growth, … president for finance—the University's chief financial officer—characterized the accounts reported on December …
Issue: January-February 2005
The Students Who Will Chime In on Harvard’s Presidential Search
… As part of the SEARCH for a successor to President Drew Faust, who has … committees. These committees serve alongside 12 members of the Harvard Corporation, and three members of the Board of Overseers. The student advisory committee is comprised of graduates and undergraduates from across Harvard’s …
Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent
… a writer when she began to publish opinions after joining the Supreme Court in 2010. In the case, the six … harder for the executive branch to curb a primary cause of global warming. They decided that the Clean Air Act does … to help reduce those harmful emissions. The ruling was one of the last, and most extreme, of the Court term ending last …
Issue: November-December 2022