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Sprinter, Taylor, Hurdler (High)
… One of the country's best track athletes, Brenda Taylor gracefully … The summer before ninth grade, Lindsay Taylor, twin sister of Brenda '01, wanted to learn to run hurdles. Their home … having been on the starting line all day." It's no surprise that she is now in her second year as women's track …
Heaven, Hell, and Profits
… The Protestant Ethic — you probably know the gist of … was a sign of salvation, drove modern capitalist enterprise and prosperity. Although Weber's theory has become a …
Issue: September-October 2004
Klarman Hall Breaks Ground
… Under a dazzling spring sky, with just a hint of cirrus on the horizon—temperatures in the 70s, shadbushes and weeping … not, of course, a panacea.” As markets evolve and companies rise and fall, “There are losers as well as winners,” and …
Ibn al-Haytham
… One of the most distinguished and prolific mathematicians in the medieval tradition of Arabic Islamic science, al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham … the philosophical sciences." In his time "philosophy" comprised all of mathematics, the natural sciences, and theology …
Issue: September-October 2003
Chao Center Groundbreaking at HBS
… The Harvard Business School (HBS) broke ground for the Ruth … named for a woman, as well as the first whose namesake is of Chinese descent. The edifice will house meeting rooms, office and dining facilities, and classrooms on the site of …
Harvard Headlines: Kennedy School Grad in Alleged Russian Espionage Ring
… The F.B.I. arrested 11 people on Monday on charges of … M.P.A. ’00, whose classmates at the Kennedy School of Government, the Times also reports, recall that he was …
From AIDS to Art
… like other plagues , HIV/AIDS has brought death and grief, fear … to imagine fictions like Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series, or Tony Kushner’s epic drama Angels in … on increased research funding and faster regulatory review of drugs, and in 1990 even attempted to seize control of the …
Issue: November-December 2009
Wallace Shawn and André Gregory: Together Again
… worked intermittently on a new translation and revision of the play The Master Builder by Norwegian playwright Henrik … film director Jonathan Demme, the Oscar-winning director of The Silence of the Lambs, has agreed to direct a motion …
Will Warren be Chosen to Head New Consumer Finance Agency?
… Elizabeth Warren has not been formally nominated to head the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection , but it would be hard to tell that from the news coverage. The Gottlieb professor of law , who chaired the panel that oversaw the …
Code Is Law
… Our founders feared a newly empowered federal government; the Constitution is written against that fear. John Stuart … book On Liberty is written against that regulation. Many of the progressives in the twentieth century worried about the injustices of the market. The reforms of the market, and the safety …
Digital Stress on Teens
… this week by Emily Weinstein, Ed.M. ’14, and Larsen professor of education Robert Selman pinpoints specific … stressors related to adolescents’ experiences online. The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) researchers … of the anonymous teens’ personal accounts reveals how surprised teens are when these expressions of connection so …
Veritas
… One of the first complaints I received after my election as … president was a strongly worded email about a course being offered at Harvard College. It contained a link to an … shared hundreds of times over, that simply juxtaposed the course description with an opinion piece about the …
Issue: January-February 2019
Owen Wister
… One hundred years ago, the Macmillan Company published The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains , a novel about an unnamed Wyoming cattleman. The book became one of the first mass-market bestsellers and stands as the …
Issue: July-August 2002
Slinging Meat
… Pining for the warmth of human babble on a wintry night? Duck into The … Tap & Trotter, the casual, grill-centric restaurant of chef Tony Maws, where hunks of meat and swillable drinks …
Issue: November-December 2014
Sober Finances
… paints in attention-getting terms a sober portrait of the University’s circumstances today—and likely in the years … , edX , and the I-Lab —before pivoting to financial crises in Washington, D.C., and in Europe, and other …
Issue: January-February 2013