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Beyond the Budget
… finance, characterizes Harvard's getting and spending for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1999. The annual Financial Report to the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, released in December, shows … revenue source--rose just 3.8 percent; a moderate rise in tuition was offset in part by further robust growth …
How AI energy demand costs consumers
… Last December, Richland Parish, a small rural county in northern Louisiana that is home to 20,000 people, became an unlikely epicenter of the artificial intelligence boom. Facebook’s parent company, Meta, selected it as the site of a new $10-billion data center that will be the company’s …
Issue: July-August 2025
The Lost History of Iberia
… What secrets do the ear bones of long-dead skeletons hold? Not ancient … these human remains provides the basis for a new history of Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal), published today in …
The Upward Mobility Problem
… and now I’m shifting a ten-speed,” says Gary Jones with the sort of smile you hear before you see it. From eight in the … of Americans attending four-year college continues to rise—and yet, countries such as Finland and Denmark send …
Issue: May-June 2022
Mitigating Global Threats
… Amid leadership crises across Europe and mounting economic and defense … Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, M.P.A. ’97, is on the front lines of diplomacy, working with allies to do “everything we can …
Issue: March-April 2025
The Joy of Mentoring—From Thousands of Miles Away
… over a year ago , I clicked send on an email that signaled the start of one era and the end of another. I confirmed my acceptance … Christmas gift: a shiny new iPad. Michael, looking surprised, thanked me for the gift. Then I sheepishly divulged …
The Fire in “A Burning”
… In early June, as the pandemic’s disproportionate toll on racial minorities … sharper focus and protests roiled the country in the wake of George Floyd’s killing, Megha Majumdar ’10 released her … write A Burning came several years ago, as she watched the rise of right-wing nationalism in India. An editorial …
Issue: September-October 2020
A Tale of Two Detectives
… Lauren Mechling writes in the thriving young-adult genre. Above: The author's first … While preparing to interview Cecile von Ziegesar, author of the wildly popular Gossip Girl series, for a London … in a decade, by her estimate, and what she found surprised her. The moralizing tone of the books she remembered …
Issue: September-October 2008
“The Foundation of Learning”
… Thursday afternoon, Drew Faust thanked everyone present for their generous welcome and offered heartfelt congratulations in return, especially to … a primate crisis, and sexual assault and sexual harassment crises—and we’ve made significant and lasting changes in …
Issue: July-August 2018
Lessons from Lehman Brothers
… Snapshots from an exhibition. A 1957 portrait in the “partners’ room” at Lehman Brothers is the very image of mid-century finance: white, male partners, in fine suits, … in grave economic losses worldwide, national debt crises across Ireland and southern Europe, displacement of …
Technology, Paternity, Patriarchy
… “All the decisions we make in our most intimate lives…about who … by technology,” contends Debora Spar. A Baker Foundation professor at Harvard Business School, Spar was president of … the creation of marriage at the dawn of agriculture, to the rise of feminism in the twentieth century, to the legal …
Issue: March-April 2019
Five Questions with Cass R. Sunstein
… Cass R. Sunstein ’75, J.D. ’78, is currently the Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, where he also directs the … for those decisions in shaping public policy. In the words of contributing editor and journalist Lincoln Caplan ’72, …
American Ingenuity
… To safeguard access to weaponry, in 1794 the new federal government expanded an arsenal into a … rifles, designed by engineer John Garand. But the expertise of workers and the innovative machinery also led … modern inventions, like bikes, typewriters, clocks, sewing machines, and screws,” says Amy Glowacki, program manager at …
Issue: November-December 2021
Campaigning in the Digital Age
… The New York Times gives a glowing review to a new book by Garrett M. Graff '03, one of this magazine's former Berta Greenwald Ledecky … to Barack Obama's success at on-line fundraising and the rise of left-leaning blogs such as Daily Kos. In addition to …
The New Republican Mavericks of Cambridge
… few months,” says Declan Garvey ’17, president of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC). A year ago, the members … when they didn’t,” he explains. “And I was subsequently surprised and even more annoyed when the Yale Republican Club …