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Reflecting on 35 Years of the NEA
… Reflecting on 35 Years of the NEA Diva Jessye Norman, D.Mus. '88, sang to honor the thirty-fifth anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) at the Kennedy …
Nobelists of Note
… Five alumni —two of them former faculty members—and the recipient of an honorary doctorate were among those to whom Nobel …
Issue: January-February 2008
Impresario of Fun
… The defining moment came, oddly enough, in a setting that … that USA uniform. I loved the Olympics. They were a way of bringing people together, and sometimes I think they … in one sport, the disappearance of freshman teams, the rise of out-of-season sports like spring football and …
The Post-Roe World
… “Clarity is power,” said Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) dean Michelle Williams, at the school’s panel last week on the post- Roe United States. … ebbs, the number of children put up for adoption will rise. The experts disagree. A study at the University of …
In the Wake of War
… Father and son. Lawyer and philosopher. Conservative and liberal. Charles Fried, Beneficial professor of law, and Gregory Fried '83, professor of … and Lincoln's illegal actions taken in response to the crises they faced, and the actions of these two great …
Issue: September-October 2010
On the Trail of Human Diversity
… As the first modern humans made their way out of Africa, about … scales in fish. The mutation, EDAR370A—estimated to have arisen in central China approximately 30,000 years ago—was …
Issue: May-June 2013
Ruth Simmons’s Convocation Speech at the Graduate School of Education
… afternoon to all who today mark this important moment in these graduates’ lives. I begin on this auspicious occasion … in their aspirations and endeavors: faculty and staff of this esteemed institution; family, friends and mentors; … and fulfilling life.What new tragedy, they must ask, will arise tomorrow to unsettle further their future?What old …
Debating the Moral Status of the Embryo
… When does life begin? At conception? At implantation? When the heart starts to beat at 22 days? When the embryo takes … governing research with embryos. In Great Britain, the cutoff date is 14 days after conception, or around the time of implantation. In a pluralistic society such as ours, how …
Issue: July-August 2004
The Persistence of Pain
… sitting at her desk writing a document for a court deadline the following morning, and the next minute she was on the … the Justice Department’s civil-rights division. That pain—profound, searing, unimaginable—would dominate the next two decades of her life. It would engulf her marriage and her ability to …
Issue: March-April 2019
The Tao of Crew
… Click-boom-sssshhh. Click-boom-sssshhh --amid the accolades and hardships of academic life, nothing else has so defined my Harvard … up their slides to prepare for the next stroke. Some form of this rhythm is present during every stroke taken by a …
The Payout Payoff
… Following two years of high investment returns on endowment assets, the Harvard Corporation has approved an increase in funds … $840 million). The new formula holds to that 4 percent rise for 2006, but adds an additional sum of up to 4 percent …
Issue: March-April 2005
The True Magic Pill: Why Exercise Outperforms Every Drug for Health and Longevity
… In the bottle before you is a pill , a marvel of modern … the risk of heart attacks and — this was somewhat of a surprise — both kinds of stroke." (Ischemic stroke, caused by …
Issue: March-April 2004
The Deficit Danger
… At the time of the last presidential election campaign, four … a variety of stories about how the saving rate would rise in step with the government's borrowing, or how … 1990s. Much of what happened during that time—the rise of the "militia" movement, the wave of ugly xenophobia, …
Issue: January-February 2004
Harvard's Latest Field of Expertise: the Semicolon
… A recent public-service ad campaign in the New York City subways used a semicolon in urging riders to dispose of their newspapers rather than leaving them behind on the … ad campaign as an entry point into a broader investigation of the little-used punctuation mark and its cultural …
The Joys of Adult Education
… wanted to learn: ancient Greek. After burning through many of Harvard's Greek and Latin classes as a special student, he turned to the Harvard Extension School, where he is now employed as an … is itself larger than the entire higher-education enterprise in the United States," he adds. "It's a big boom. It's …
Issue: January-February 2003