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Notice to Readers
… Due to a printer error , some copies of the May-June issue were mailed without the annual … area readers will receive a corrected, complete copy of the magazine in the mail soon. Download the missing …
“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 …
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
Globalization for Whom?
… Globalization has brought little but good news to those with the products, skills, and resources to market worldwide. But … globalization—in essence, free trade and free flows of capital—revolves. Antiglobalization protesters may … to live only 36 years. By 1999, life expectancy had risen to 70 years, not far below the level of the United …
Issue: July-August 2002
Harvard Overseer Candidates’ 2025 Priorities
… YEAR, Harvard Magazine asks candidates for Harvard’s Board of Overseers—one of the University’s two governing boards—to answer the … being willing to elevate issues and perspectives as they arise. The Board also brings perspectives external to the …
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
Entrances and Exits
… Braeman Payne , M.B.A. ’70, writes recalling her experience of collecting a degree from Harvard Business School only to find, 200 miles to the southwest, that she could not crack the women-excluding Harvard Club of New York. “A group of us (including one Harvard Law …
Issue: March-April 2017
Randall Thompson
… To many music lovers, the name Randall Thompson '20 brings first to mind the lofty sounds of his most famous anthem, based on the single word …
Doctor Yes
… "Since our freshman year, beginning in the fall of 1939 with World War II, the primary focus of my interest has been how the world copes with its …
Issue: March-April 2004
How They Built Houses in Japan
… In 1979, to commemorate 20 years of partnership between the sister cities of Boston and Kyoto, 43 enormous crates arrived at the …
Issue: September-October 2008
Absurdist Anticlimaxes
… The more rain-soaked and mud-splattered, less charitable, part of me wants to get the anticlimax over with. Tonight was … with the other House contingents on a narrow path in front of Wigglesworth for about an hour. I was also supposed to …
Arthur Augustus Johnson
… Johnson “has perhaps helped more colored youths than any other colored figure in Boston and Greater Boston.” So … “Sheep” Jackson in 1945, reflecting on the contributions of a unique figure in the history of Boston baseball and of the Harvard of the 1920s and …
Kasey Uhlenhuth , Harry R. Lewis
Issue: September-October 2023
Personal Excerpts: Alumni Write about Alzheimer’s
… Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry (Paul Dry Books, 2011) by … Rutgers University English professor Rachel Hadas recounts the medical interview during which her husband of more than … was alarm and fear, but really, as I now recall it, no surprise.” Making An Exit: A Mother-Daughter Drama with …
Issue: September-October 2013
Decoding Diabetes
… As you read these words, conditions in your body may feel peaceful. … part. We owe this ability to sit reading quietly to a state of internal equilibrium—the technical term is homeostasis . … prompted questions about why and how leptin resistance arises. Flier was among those to note a structural similarity …
Issue: November-December 2008
Zigzag Memory Lane
… Shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, federal agents began a … for two men seen renting the van used in the attack. One of those men, Timothy McVeigh, was recently executed. The … his sins may collapse into one, or an eighth mistake may arise. But the central message will not lose its relevance, …
Issue: January-February 2002