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Staging the Women's Movement
… Gloria: A Life, at the American Repertory Theater January 24-March 1, is not a … and personal journey to tell the wider, collective story of the modern women’s movement. The play is based on Mann’s … and sexism, that she faced and has chronicled. Her rise during the 1960s and ’70s as the glamorous spokeswoman …
Issue: January-February 2020
A Sharp Critique of Business Education
… Writing in the September 26 edition of The Economist --certainly no … need to learn that economic history is punctuated with crises and disasters, that booms inevitably give way to …
The Three Principles of Transformation
… final Baccalaureate ceremony, President Drew Faust spoke to the graduating seniors of 2018 about transformation—both theirs, and her own. While … and experienced firsthand the transformative power of a liberal-arts education against a backdrop of social …
Nobelists of Note
… Five alumni —two of them former faculty members—and the recipient of an honorary doctorate were among those to whom Nobel …
Issue: January-February 2008
The Persistence of Pain
… sitting at her desk writing a document for a court deadline the following morning, and the next minute she was on the … the Justice Department’s civil-rights division. That pain—profound, searing, unimaginable—would dominate the next two decades of her life. It would engulf her marriage and her ability to …
Issue: March-April 2019
The Economic Agenda
… I have been privileged to watch the 10 previous presidential elections closely. In the course of each of them, it was said that this was a uniquely … to ask whether something more can be done to contain these crises and the threats to economic stability that they pose. …
Issue: September-October 2008
Ruth Simmons’s Convocation Speech at the Graduate School of Education
… afternoon to all who today mark this important moment in these graduates’ lives. I begin on this auspicious occasion … in their aspirations and endeavors: faculty and staff of this esteemed institution; family, friends and mentors; … and fulfilling life.What new tragedy, they must ask, will arise tomorrow to unsettle further their future?What old …
Impresario of Fun
… The defining moment came, oddly enough, in a setting that … that USA uniform. I loved the Olympics. They were a way of bringing people together, and sometimes I think they … in one sport, the disappearance of freshman teams, the rise of out-of-season sports like spring football and …
Off the Shelf
… What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat, by Louise Richardson, Ph.D. ’89, executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute (Random House, $25.95). “We … chase halfway around Antarctica, and an account of the rise to celebrity of the Patagonian toothfish, a.k.a. …
Issue: September-October 2006
Harvard College Announces Class of 2025 Admissions Decisions
… The College has admitted 1,968 of 57,435 applicants to the … percent last year —the arithmetical result of an enormous rise in the applicant pool, up more than 17,000. That is …
The Party Line on Flab
… If obesity were a symbol of success, the United States would be a boomtown on the frontier of … foods, publicly funded exercise parks, bans on vending machines in schools, or regulation of food advertisements …
Issue: September-October 2002
Debating the Moral Status of the Embryo
… When does life begin? At conception? At implantation? When the heart starts to beat at 22 days? When the embryo takes … governing research with embryos. In Great Britain, the cutoff date is 14 days after conception, or around the time of implantation. In a pluralistic society such as ours, how …
Issue: July-August 2004
Reflecting on 35 Years of the NEA
… Reflecting on 35 Years of the NEA Diva Jessye Norman, D.Mus. '88, sang to honor the thirty-fifth anniversary of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) at the Kennedy …
The Joys of Adult Education
… wanted to learn: ancient Greek. After burning through many of Harvard's Greek and Latin classes as a special student, he turned to the Harvard Extension School, where he is now employed as an … is itself larger than the entire higher-education enterprise in the United States," he adds. "It's a big boom. It's …
Issue: January-February 2003
Muse of Movement
… in Holland, Michigan, Dawn Murdock Stenis played sweeper on the varsity soccer teams. Sweepers are the kingpins of a soccer defense: they play at the very back, behind … life. Once inside, they storm more than 100 cardio workout machines (treadmills, elliptical trainers, rowers, bikes, …
Issue: September-October 2010