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Endowments, Taxed
… The tax changes enacted by the Republican majorities in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate just before Christmas and … into law by President Donald Trump did not incorporate many of the features that most alarmed the higher-education …
Issue: March-April 2018
On Discovering Drugs
… Despite enormous gains in understanding of the mechanisms of disease, we are at a near impasse in new … are themselves becoming personalized. Cancer, for example, arises from mutation in a single normal cell, but one of its …
Issue: November-December 2011
Witchcraft, War, and “Pannick Fear”
… The history of Salem witchcraft has its own history, its own long, tortuous, emotionally freighted sequence of tellings and retellings. Novelists and poets, playwrights … authors and, not least, historians have all contributed their piece. Most nineteenth- and early twentieth-century …
Issue: July-August 2003
Reviving Neglected Space
… as well as visual power.” As a child, she drew maps of neighborhoods, trying to understand spatial relationships and imagine the interiors of the buildings, and she continues to think about the …
Issue: July-August 2018
A Broadcast Cornucopia
… There may not be another radio station in America that would … a show like the one WHRB (95.3 FM) broadcast in February of 2013: an hour and a half of music with no song longer … its indie successors). “We try to play things that will surprise people,” says Menz. “People can open up Spotify, …
Issue: September-October 2015
A Global Health View
… Julio Frenk’s appointment as dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) took effect on January 1, but his …
Issue: March-April 2009
Voter Suppression Returns
… The 2012 election campaign—for Congress as well as the … to be bitterly fought, even nasty. Leaders of both major parties, and their core constituents, believe … last year, although the 2008 and 2010 elections gave rise to only five formal complaints about voter …
Issue: July-August 2012
A Grand Time
… Three years ago, Luella Kramer's friends were shaking their heads. "They all thought I'd lost my mind," the … They wondered how I could risk it." What Kramer, of Holden, Massachusetts, did was spend 12 days on safari in … home, Peter wrote his grandmother to say, "I was surprised by how much you know about Italy." Betty Vorenberg's …
Issue: November-December 2003
Campus Survey: Sexual Assault, Harassment Remain Serious Problems
… On October 15, Harvard released the results of a survey intended to estimate the prevalence … the prevalence of nonconsensual sexual contact has risen slightly overall. Chart from the Harvard AAU steering …
Trump and Apocalyptic Thinking
… Joining a wave of protesters in cities across the country, demonstrators massed in Harvard Yard this afternoon to rally against Donald Trump’s surprise win in this week’s presidential election. The evening …
Origin Stories
… Harvard Alumni take all kinds of paths to the College. Few equal the one Bob Bowie Jr. ’73 describes … (HAA) presidency in 2010-2011, but it took his gift of gab, and audacious hard work, to get there. “I was a …
Issue: March-April 2025
Gun Violence
… Every year, 40,000 people in the United States are killed with firearms. But another … are shot and survive. A new study quantifying the impacts of gun violence on these survivors and their families finds that they face increased risk of mental health disorders and substantially higher …
Bye-bye, Blue Books?
… At its meeting on May 11, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) adopted a … motion that henceforth, “unless an instructor officially informs the Registrar by the end of the first …
Issue: July-August 2010
Bernanke Class Day Speech
… Watch to the live video recording. … “Remarks on Class Day 2008” by Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. … Some indicators of longer-term inflation expectations have risen in recent months, which is a significant concern for …
“Going Aboard?”
… At the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s annual Moby-Dick Marathon, all 136 chapters of the great American epic—from “Etymology” to … sleep. Fast-forward to the early morning. The sun has risen and those stoic palinuruses who have endured for a …
Issue: November-December 2016