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A Reischauer Returns
… The newest member of the President and Fellows of Harvard … for that new world," he said, "a lot of new challenges" arise. Similarly, the "revolution in life science" leads to … will be moderate." Clearly, he would not be surprised by some retrenchment. Leaner times encourage an …
Issue: January-February 2003
Sundials in Early Modern Europe
… These Photographs show seventeenth-century printed-paper … As Jennifer Carling and Jonathan Shaw point out in “Spheres of Knowledge,” from the November-December 2011 issue, … to convert among the three different time-telling systems of the day as they traveled from one region to another. … …
Arianne Cohen Tells Tall Tales
… Fellow at Harvard Magazine in 2001-2002, has just published The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life from on High (Bloomsbury), as noted in the current … review on June 28, amusingly illustrated by a photograph of basketball star Yao Ming towering over his former coach, …
Harvard Medalists
… D.B.A. ’63, and Betsey Bradley Urschel, Ed.M. ’63—received the 2016 Harvard Medal for “extraordinary service to the … Alumni Association’s (HAA) annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. President Drew Faust read the … below. • When Thomas G. Everett, now director emeritus of the Harvard Bands, arrived in 1971, he found the campus …
Issue: July-August 2016
Icarus
… There are those who have eaten at Icarus more than a hundred … power in its insistence on very fresh produce and a menu of ever-evolving flavor combinations dubbed "new … on the plate as tall as shark's fins, plunged into wedges of quite tangy caprino. The juicy flesh of the beets …
Issue: November-December 2001
Harvard and HUCTW Reach Tentative Contract Agreement
… More than 4,600 members of Harvard’s largest labor union will not see deductibles or coinsurance in their healthcare plans for at least three more years, in a … agreement reached this week. The deal marks the end of nearly a year of strained negotiations between the …
Gilded Nut
… and gilt silver, but about four centuries ago cups such as the one shown here were well known to a species of European collector. These vessels were often displayed in a so-called cabinet of curiosities, or …
Issue: May-June 2011
Seeing Biological Systems Whole
… Marc Kirschner, one of the world's leading cell biologists, has a new office. He apologizes for a mess that hardly exists -- a …
Issue: March-April 2005
FAS Pivots to Campaign Mode—Updated
… At the first Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting of the year, on October 5, Dean Michael D. Smith gave a … members present—perhaps relieved that FAS's financial crises are apparently mostly resolved, perhaps encouraged by …
Harvard Honors John Adams, Wendy Kopp, Mario Molina, Fareed Zakaria
… During the Morning Exercises of the 361 st Commencement, on May 24, … and as foaming agents in the making of plastics) could rise in the atmosphere and cause cataclysmic depletion of …
Ultimate Islander
… There are almost 5,000 islands off the coast of Maine, most large enough only for a few tern or …
Issue: January-February 2007
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 …
Remembering John Corcoran ’84
… On weekday afternoons , John Corcoran’s bike often disappeared from his Newton garage. For hours, he rode along the Charles River, heading from Newton into Boston as the … that inspired my dad to be very active,” he says. Many of Jack’s childhood memories with his father took place …
Sensational, Shocking Tabloid Run by Harvard Grad!
… For a few months recently, the National Enquirer added a two-word prefix to its name on … pages continue to lure readers with splashy color pictures of celebrities and even more colorful stories, the Enquirer … says Coz. "Yes, the Enquirer had a rich tradition of alien abductions, Elvis sightings, UFO stories. We are …
An Arctic Mercury Meltdown
… When people think of mercury, says Daniel Jacob, they tend to think of the element in its silvery, fluid state—the stuff to …
Issue: November-December 2012