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A Common Underground
… The place I remember most from freshman fall won’t show up on Google’s map of Harvard. I took a class whose questions permeate my … benevolent self-image. “Abuse Of Power Comes As No Surprise” is a statement that flickered fast, along with many …
Issue: January-February 2021
Woolf Hunters
… opened a small bookstore in York Harbor, Maine, in the 1980s to learn the used-book business. Two decades … and rare book dealership that specializes in the works of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. Like many other … booksellers, the Richardsons entered the business because of their longstanding love for the bookstores of others. …
Issue: January-February 2010
Innovations Changing the World: New Technologies, Harvard, and China
… David B. Yoffie , Starr professor of international business administration and senior … addressed technological and economic engines for growth—and their prospective implications for how people work, study, …
Issue: May-June 2010
Ways to Support Your Well-Being in the New Year
… The gifts are tucked away, the wine bottles have been … emotional, or physical well-being, there are plenty of opportunities right in Cambridge to keep you motivated … than the Harvard University Employees Credit Union, which offers several personal finance workshops in January for …
Issue: January-February 2020
Elizabeth Bangs Bryant
… 1936, Elizabeth Bangs Bryant had worked at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology for a few decades, and her expertise … spiders, Bryant was busy maintaining and cataloguing the museum’s ever-expanding collections. When a Yankee Magazine editor asked to profile her for their “Smart Yankee” feature, she declined, …
Issue: March-April 2021
A New Contract for HUCTW
… Last Friday , the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers … four raises, which, for a worker earning the median salary of $64,000, will mean a 19 percent increase in base …
Cambridge 02138
… A Report to Readers It is difficult to absorb how much the world has been shaken since mid March, when Harvard … and staff to work remotely: the pandemic and economic crises, prompting untold suffering; the U.S. reawakening to … widening socioeconomic fissures; and the pressures of a high-stakes American presidential election, conducted …
Issue: November-December 2020
Kathleen McCartney Appointed Smith College President
… Kathleen McCartney, who became acting dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) in 2005 and dean in 2006, has been named …
al-Hariri
… Much of the late Harold Bloom’s literary criticism is bewildering, but one of his coinages—“the anxiety of influence”—has the ring of truth. It …
Issue: May-June 2021
Adulting, Interrupted
… At the start of the fall semester, my childhood best friend, Tara, and I … to take a walk together every week. Our incentive was twofold: the Tucson weather was finally beginning to slither …
Issue: March-April 2021
Growing Green
… In an unprecedented move that raised the bar for environmental standards, University leaders in … retail space and a central yard that echoes the quads of the Cambridge campus. Although the agreement is related … development projects, it is also the latest sign of Harvard’s long-term commitment to responsible growth. …
Issue: November-December 2007
CFO for Tighter Times
… The University's fiscal affairs are now in the hands of Ann … appointed vice president for finance and chief financial officer in February, after holding the position on an acting …
Issue: May-June 2003
Exercise: A Changing Prescription
… The first formal epidemiologic study linking activity to … wheel. "Morris found that the conductors had lower rates of heart disease," says I-Min Lee, an associate professor at both the Medical School and the School of Public …
Issue: March-April 2004
Café Writ Large
… We almost walked right by it, distracted by the offerings at the Colonial Theatre and Commonwealth Bookstore, and by the glint of the setting sun reflecting off the gold dome of the State …
Issue: July-August 2002
Brevia
… The President-elect Speaking at Harvard Law School’s (HLS) … celebration on October 23 (see “ Educating Professionals ,” page 58), President Drew Faust made a joke … only right answer to the trivia question, ‘What graduate of Harvard Law School was elected president of the United …
Issue: January-February 2009