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Alexander Wheelock Thayer
… pianist, conductor, and composer, Ludwig van Beethoven was the most famous musician in music-crazy … Europe. He also displayed personal traits—a love of nature, a mercurial temperament, unorthodox behavior—that made him a superb embodiment of the wild “Romantic genius.” It is thus …
Issue: January-February 2007
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
Entrepreneurs' Evangelist
… Thomas McCraw, Straus professor of business history emeritus at Harvard Business … a century later. Joseph Schumpeter taught at Harvard from the 1930s to 1950, after a tumultuous life in eastern … creation and an act of destruction of someone else’s enterprise and profit. As Schumpeter noted in his earlier book, …
Issue: July-August 2007
An Offer She Couldn't Refuse
… An unexpected phone call from her son's therapist snapped Claire Scovell LaZebnik '85 out of her "second novel syndrome." Dr. Lynn Kern Koegel was … in lay language how to help a child overcome the symptoms of autism. LaZebnik, who says she was "completely oblivious …
Issue: March-April 2004
Yesterday's News
… 1924 The Bulletin confesses that a proposal for a Harvard radio … a little startling to those not yet affected with radiofanitis. But, we wonder—will it sound so strange ten or … announces “an interesting experiment” —an intensive course of instruction in written and spoken Russian, using …
Issue: March-April 2009
Figs Were First
… New archaeobotanical evidence pushes the dawn of agriculture back to 11,400 years ago, when humans living in a village eight miles north of ancient Jericho began propagating seedless figs. Ofer …
Issue: January-February 2007
Black Ink—and Red
… As the pandemic spread suffering around the globe, it … to more than $900 million—against initial expectations of daunting deficits. But the inflation and rising interest … Harvard Management Company (HMC) reported a negative return of 1.8 percent in the most recent year. Combined with …
Issue: January-February 2023
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
Crimson in Congress
… The Republican resurgence of 2010 decreased alumni ranks--defined for this exercise as graduates of or matriculants in a degree program at the University--overall on Capitol Hill. Two years ago, 38 …
Issue: January-February 2011
Final Architect
… This story has taken a surprising turn. Blame it on the tomatoes. It started out as a profile of a popular professor, his populous course, and his … these early interpreters. This message is likely to surprise Protestants in particular, Kugel explained, because …
Issue: January-February 2004
Powerful Conversations
… The Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC) has long offered students safe space for thoughtful career … and Where Are You Going?” and single-session discussions on the topic “Insanely Busy: What Would Happen If I Slowed …
Issue: November-December 2008
At Home with Harvard: Health Care in America
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine’ s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about climate … up Harvard Magazine ’s most germane past work on the crises in American health care—made all the more urgent by a …
Food Fiesta
… Most New Englanders know East Boston only as the home of Logan Airport. But a recent tour of the wide … the 1630s with the help of slaves—“a fact that always surprises my students.” Comprised of five islands linked by …
Issue: July-August 2014
Football: Harvard 23, Princeton 20 (OT)
… The white-jerseyed quarterback picked the low snap from center up off the wet turf and headed left toward the end zone five … out his arms, which grasped the ball—which broke the plane of the goal line. He was IN! The game officials threw their …
Living History
… We create ourselves out of the stories we tell about our lives, stories that impose … I greeted the letter with some relief, with surprise — and at the same time with the eye of the historian …
Issue: May-June 2003