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Nicholas Burns: Why Does Good Diplomacy Matter?
… What role does diplomacy play in the modern world order , and what are the characteristics of a good diplomat? Which countries are the great powers … I think that’s where it will be. But we will have some surprises. Nigeria is going to double in population. Sub-Saharan …
Yesterday’s News
… 1933 Harvard University Press issues phonograph records of “four widely known Harvard voices”: T.S. Eliot ’10 and professors Charles Townsend Copeland, Fred Norris Robinson, and Bliss Perry. 1943 The president of The Harvard Advocate announces that, due to …
Issue: July-August 2023
A Faculty Meeting “Unlike Any Other”
… The president in an open-collared shirt and pullover. The dean of the College sporting headphones. A peak of 271 … to divest endowment investment holdings of enterprises involved in fossil-fuel production —that global …
Commencement Confetti
… A tipping of caps to John Harvard. Rev. Peter J. Gomes, leading, told seniors at their baccalaureate service, "All of the muses are summoned to celebrate with you: music, …
Music and Medicine
… maybe become a surgeon. “I was like, I’m going to be in the library 24/7; this is my calling,” he says. “I don’t … jazz band. No, Miller said. Definitely not. A couple of days later, he woke up to an email confirming that he was … classmate he’d met at Annenberg—Emil Massad ’25, now one of Miller’s close friends—had signed him up without asking. …
Issue: March-April 2025
Leaner Libraries
… The pilot project with Google announced by the Harvard … Library in December is a small step toward a future of possibilities in which almost any book in any Harvard … Until recently, subventions from FAS and the president had risen annually by an inflation index (determined by the …
Issue: March-April 2005
Protesters Walk Out of Harvard Commencement
… would not be allowed to graduate this spring due to their involvement in the pro-Palestine encampment, activists … organized their own graduation. During the conferral of degrees Thursday morning, hundreds of graduating students—perhaps as many as a thousand people …
A "Pause" and Progress in FAS
… dean Michael D. Smith explained his approach to leading the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), with important implications for … would “pause to plan.” With the faculty ranks having risen 19 percent (from 596 positions to 712) between mid …
Issue: July-August 2008
Sijo: Korea's Answer to Haiku?
… Haiku is downright famous in the United States; American schoolchildren commonly learn … sijo, an ancient Korean poetry form with three lines of 14 or 15 syllables each, hasn't caught on the same way. David McCann, Korea Foundation professor of Korean literature and director of Harvard's Korea …
Undergraduate Summer Research Programs Unveiled
… Starting this summer, the College will offer two new research programs for … popular Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE), the programs will match students with faculty …
Harvard Great Performances: Carl Morris ’03
… If these were ordinary times the Harvard football team would be … whose home-field dimensions necessitated the invention of the forward pass, Harvard football was curiously slow to … without games, football correspondent Dick Friedman reprises past Crimson glories: epic plays, players, and …
Masa
… Chef Philip Aviles uses the same basic ingredients found in most other Boston kitchens. He just tweaks them—adding a squeeze of "jalapeño lime emulsion," a drizzle of mild ancho-chile sauce, or a spoonful of cilantro …
Issue: November-December 2002
Makeda Best
… first photo-book: Brian Lanker’s I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America . (Her second was an … At 16, she was given her first camera—a Nikon 6600, then the fastest automatic on the market—and began taking … time in art school. There’s no framed work, no secret box of prints—just an enduring fascination with the form’s …
Issue: March-April 2018
Celebrating Alice
… One and a half centuries after Alice first fell down the rabbit hole, she has arrived at one of Cambridge’s most serious places: Houghton Library, … of doses of LSD. The exhibition is full of pleasant surprises and clever details: all case labels are designed as …
Changing Guard at Government
… Dean of the Kennedy School of Government Joseph S. Nye announced in early September … the quality of the students (as measured on the GRE) has risen. Nye attributes this to an increased interest in …
Issue: November-December 2003