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Deluxe Food, Garden View
… From the start , when the hostess escorts you to the elevator for … vertical voyage to the second floor. The spectacular sight of those racks of resting wine bottles, each awaiting its moment, is itself …
Issue: January-February 2004
Shepherds, Take Heart!
… “ I did not learn to read until I was 16, neither could I spell,” says William G.R. Marden ’46, of Bryan, Texas. “I knew I had a brain with blind spots, … went to live with their grandmother on the North Island of New Zealand on a farm where she raised thoroughbred race …
Issue: September-October 2012
Mackintoshed Parade
… “ How long do you think that should be? 9 feet?” “Well, if the roll is 2 feet wide…” “Okay, cut here.” Last Saturday—a … in Eliot (including me) were assembling the skeleton of a giant paper-lantern elephant (Eliot’s mascot) in the … the carnivalesque plans for this anniversary, I was surprised by the openness of it all. O’Neill recalls that the …
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
Historic Basketball Victory
… In the biggest basketball game Harvard has ever played, the … defeat on Princeton, the Crimson clinched at least a share of the Ivy League championship, raising their Ivy record to 12-2, a half-game ahead of Princeton's 11-2. Princeton plays Penn on Tuesday, March …
George Daley Appointed Harvard Medical Dean
… stem-cell scientist George Q. Daley has been appointed dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS), effective January 1, 2017. … Barbara J. McNeil is serving as acting dean . Announcing the appointment, President Drew Faust described Daley as “an … robust community of biotechnology and pharmaceutical enterprises. “To maintain the pace of innovation, HMS will …
Close Call
… Ten days before Commencement, early on the cool, fresh morning of Monday, May 13, the lilacs and azaleas at Dana Palmer … Kennedy School’s class day audience that amid global crises and challenges, their international network could, and …
John S. Rosenberg , Max J. Krupnick
Cyberholics Anonymous
… and jokes do satisfy repressed needs, that might explain the unexpected success of the prank Ivan Goldberg pulled in 1995. As a gag on … joke had hit paydirt in the collective id. None of this surprises lecturer on psychology Maressa Hecht Orzack, founder …
Rebooting Social Science
… In the early 1930s, as a stock market crash spiraled into the Great Depression, the governors of the Federal Reserve frequently declined to provide … Square office, signaling to all who enter what the enterprise is about.) Aiming to catalyze significant research, it …
Issue: July-August 2014
Honorable Forester
… accomplished in those steamy reaches, he has been awarded the Japan Prize in the category of “Science and Technology of Harmonious Coexistence.” He … and micro-organisms that depend on the trees and that comprise the bulk of a forest’s biodiversity. When researchers …
Issue: September-October 2007
Engineering New Engineering Degrees
… The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)— continuing its accelerated growth as a locus of teaching and research since its 2007 elevation from a … shared with the faculty, the number of concentrators has risen from 13 in the class of 2009 to 47 declared …
Harvard Weighs In on the Fiscal Cliff
… Harvard president Drew Faust joined 15 fellow leaders of the state’s top hospitals and universities in urging … sponsored research and development is an important engine of economic growth. The letter notes that federal dollars …
Strokes in Parallel
… Born roughly a year apart on opposite sides of the Pacific Rim--one in Woodside, California, near Palo … with other teammates as well. The pair reached the round of 16 at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s (ITA) …
Issue: March-April 2011
When Harvard Was Upsized
… long lines, waiting lists? You'd have suffered mightily in the fall of 1946, when Harvard experienced a population explosion of unparalled proportions. That year's influx of 9,000 war …
Picture-book Publisher
… Children’s book publisher Claudia Z. Bedrick ’85 knows the value of childhood memories. “There’s an intimacy we have with the … fall in love with as young readers,” she says, and as head of Enchanted Lion Books, she has devoted herself to bringing …
Issue: January-February 2014