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Getaway to Italy: Splendor in the Ruins
… From the Leaning Tower of Pisa to the city of Venice (which could sink any day now), some of …
2013 Centennial Citations
… Everett Mendelsohn, PhD ’60, history of science “Possibly no one has done more to establish the history of the life sciences as a recognized university discipline …
Winter Service Session
… As a social entrepreneur, Be The Change CEO Kevin Jennings ’85 has sometimes found … careers, organized by the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics. Between 1,500 and 3,000 undergraduates … to do qualitative research or found a start-up to a variety of classes on topics that included food and wine, yoga, …
Issue: March-April 2012
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
An Education in Ethics
… Last January 13 , in the amphitheater of Aldrich Hall 107, Henry B. Reiling began … the “joint adventurers…owe to one another, while the enterprise continues, the duty of the finest loyalty.” Thus, …
Issue: September-October 2006
Retirement Engine Rebuilt
… with traditional and inflation-protected bonds and hoping they deliver the right payoff decades in the future is a daunting task, even for professionals. And what’s really absurd, says Robert Merton, …
Issue: January-February 2009
An Unprecedented Gift for Undergraduate Financial Aid
… Kenneth C. Griffin ’89, founder and chief executive officer of the Citadel LLC , a multibillion-dollar, Chicago-based hedge-fund and financial-services enterprise, has given Harvard $150 million, principally for …
How to Prevent Cancer through Nutrition
… diet reduce cancer risk? In short, yes. Nearly 25 percent of the 18 million cases of cancer diagnosed annually worldwide … but it may set up the environment in which cancer can arise.” Rebbeck also addressed the problem of …
Elephant and Mouse
… faculties—Harvard has been acting like an elephant afraid of a mouse. It has been timid about communicating the $6.5-billion Harvard Campaign’s success, lest Harvard-bashers (and they are legion) sound off. But surely no one doubts that a fundraising drive that …
Issue: September-October 2016
Upstream Warrior
… In retrospect, it seems like a moment of epiphany, but on that Saturday in June 1963, it was simply a day of rough, stormy weather on the Thames River in New London, Connecticut. No one … the reaction they are going to get, and they are often surprised," says Peter Raymond, Ed.M. '83, who coached Harvard …
Gregory N. Connolly
… Surprisingly, the director of the Center for Global Tobacco Control at the Harvard School of Public Health was once a smoker himself. Working with …
Issue: March-April 2011
Happy Surprises
… Success is making a bit of trouble for Gabriel Bremer and Analia Verolo. Two years ago they bought Salts, a popular bistro near Central Square, and … table and were ready to be somewhere else. These troubles arise because the food is exceedingly good — and surprising. …
Issue: November-December 2005
Texas Waves Hello
… Harvardians journeying to the north side of San Antonio—the "Texas Hill … need only look skyward for a familiar sign. Crimson often flies atop a 25-foot pole at the home of John F. Kirk, …
Issue: July-August 2003
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
Hunger Fighter
… dinner with his family when a news flash showed images of famine in Somalia and the war in Bosnia. Teton had been working on a novel Upsurge , which dealt with hunger and the formation of a world-wide coalition against it. But current events …
Issue: May-June 2011