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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
Fish by Fish
… Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless ’77, J.D. ’86, took a hike along the coast. The conservation group he runs has helped … the most isolated inhabited place on earth, where hundreds of tourists nevertheless arrive daily to see the famous … statues are impressive, Sharpless says. But so are signs of the island’s current environmental problems—and its …
Issue: July-August 2013
Innovation-Colonial Style
… Home Depot, Target, and pizza places arrived on Route 1, the land was submerged under a 230-acre waterway that … pots and kettles, fire backs, salt pans, and all sorts of hardware—for ships, farms, and the military—that was … and success, and even to the future industrialization of the entire region. Today, a meticulous recreation of the …
Issue: September-October 2016
Yesterday's News
… reveals plans to build a library at Harvard in memory of her son, Harry Elkins Widener ’07, who perished with his father on the Titanic. 1932 The observance of Class Day is moved out of the Yard to the quadrangle …
Issue: May-June 2007
On Judicial Interpretation
… Not until page 201 of his erudite book The Invisible Constitution does Laurence H. Tribe drop the … sense if they are seen as the triangular facets that comprise the geodesic surface. Beneath the facet that is the …
Issue: March-April 2009
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
Curricular Course
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean William C. Kirby has outlined the work on revising the undergraduate curriculum that he … proposals that can be presented to the faculty by the end of the academic year." In a letter to professors and …
Issue: November-December 2004
Modern and Historic
… More than 500 people turned out in June for the inaugural gala picnic at Philip Johnson’s Glass House , … long-awaited event raised $750,000 for further preservation of the most celebrated modern house in the Northeast. Public … preserving the Gropius house, or even those that comprise Six Moon Hill. But whether all modern houses should be …
Issue: September-October 2007
Presidents, Congress, and Foreign Policy
… Professor of government Dustin Tingley is interested in the mechanisms that make politics work, especially in the … character of the nation’s relationships abroad. Facing crises in Syria and Ukraine, many critics in the United …
Issue: May-June 2016
“A Rule-Based System”
… UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, LL.D. '04, spoke as the guest of the Harvard Alumni Association at its annual … day meeting. Excerpts from his address, "Three Crises, and the Need for American Leadership," follow. Kofi …
Issue: July-August 2004
Cambridge 01238
… 1969, Echoing As an activist in the Harvard Strike of 1969 and the SDS speaker at the 1969 … in wearing a black armband over our robes, and to my surprise my photo appeared in a Newsweek spread on campus …
Issue: May-June 2019
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
Harvard College Admissions Rate Falls to 6.2 Percent
… that 2,158 students, from among 34,950 applicants, had been offered admission to the class of 2015, entering this August. The admission rate, slightly …
Steeped
… chai lattes from Starbucks or Dunkin’ probably don’t think of the tea tree originally discovered in Southeast Asia. They don’t picture the earliest spring leaves of the Camellia sinensis var . sinensis , hand-picked in the …
Issue: March-April 2022
Letters from Prison
… with prison? Eight years ago, Jakurski Family associate professor of business administration Eugene Soltes began to wonder … leaders, many with families and sterling reputations in the business community, to commit white-collar crimes. …
Issue: November-December 2016