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Sweet Science
… At the Leverett House Grill in the late 1980s, Joanne Chang ’91 … Café pastry shops, which have won awards for best bakery, coffee shop, cakes, cookie, doughnut, and takeout. Boston … sticky buns. For each “throwdown,” television chef Flay surprises a professional cook with a challenge: he tries to …
Issue: March-April 2008
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
Josh Kantor
… In 2003, while auditioning to become the Boston Red Sox organist, Josh Kantor was asked to play … the Beatles, and “as many different things as you can think of that are 10 seconds or less that might energize a … now a reference and interlibrary loan assistant. The son of two teachers, Kantor has long considered libraries “a …
Issue: September-October 2010
Harvard Football: New Season, New Coach
… The winter , spring, and summer of our discontent having concluded, Harvard’s 2024 football season kicks off this Saturday—appropriately enough, the first day of …
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 …
Unprecedented
… people who are steeped in our institutional history hear the word “unprecedented,” they are understandably skeptical. … one point or another over the past 383 years, and our Class of 2020 is not the first group of graduates unsettled by … and social conflict, natural disasters and public health crises, economic recession and depression: Harvard has borne …
Issue: July-August 2020
375 Candles: A Video
… red velvet cake on October 14, 2011. Take this video tour of the gala event in Harvard Yard. … width:407] … Sights and sounds of Harvard's 375th anniversary celebration … Sights and …
War and Peace at Memorial Church
… contribution to world peace," said Eric Anderson, provost of Eton College, England, who delivered the sermon in Memorial Church on November 10. He spoke on the Sunday nearest Veterans Day, at a service of commemoration of benefactors and of the war dead—an …
Issue: January-February 2003
Honoris Causa
… Commencement. University provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands in the following order, and President Drew … Wai Photograph by Jim Harrison Wong Kar Wai. The creator of visually vibrant, character-driven films from Chungking … Express to In the Mood for Love to The Grandmaster . Doctor of Arts: A cosmopolitan grandmaster of kinetic flair, whose …
Issue: July-August 2018
Meteorologist Matthew Cappucci’s Weather Obsession
… Matthew Cappucci ’19 has never exactly fit in, and at a bingo hall 40 minutes east of Washington, D.C., it is no different. He is so much … In early December, he explained, scientifically, why the sunrise looked like a hamburger. (An inversion—an increase in …
Issue: March-April 2022
A Freshman Tradition Begins
… ? It was hard to find on a flawless September 1 as the College inaugurated a new tradition: a celebratory Freshman Convocation for the entering class of 2013 that adapted some of the rituals of Commencement to welcome 1,672 first-years …
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 …
“Inventur” Revisits Postwar Germany
… visitors first face a small, drab painting hanging alone on the wall. It depicts a Cubist heap of white doorways, gaping like a chorus of ghostly mouths, the lintels heaped like bones. Fallen Fa …
Martian Grass
… Among the 3,200 rocks on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History's Mineralogical Museum and the tens of thousands more in drawersare many dazzlers, including …
Issue: May-June 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 …