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Pioneer Valley Bounty
… For Milwaukee chef and restaurateur Sanford D’Amato, the move to Massachusetts’s Pioneer Valley turned not on the providential bite of an apple, but of a ridiculously juicy peach. It was in 2007, when he and …
Issue: July-August 2024
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
Globalization Defended
… Offering a confident defense of globalization, now assailed by many critics, Harvard … delivered this year's Edwin L. Godkin Lecture Series at the Kennedy School of Government on April 7, 8, and 9. He …
Issue: July-August 2003
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 …
Maxim Gorky
… For much of the early twentieth century, Maxim Gorky was probably the … stories from the 1890s, with heroes drawn from the millions of peasants-turned-tramps then roaming the Russian … thoroughfare, along with hundreds of institutes and enterprises, were renamed; and finally the preacher of merciless …
Issue: July-August 2008
He Was on to Something
… Educator James O. Freedman ’57, L ’60, who died in March of last year, was president emeritus of Dartmouth College and of the University of Iowa. In his retirement in Cambridge, he …
Issue: March-April 2007
Giddy Laughter
… “ You know what ? I think the mud makes this even more fun...” As we wriggled out of the crowd, clutching precious bricks of red-velvet cake , my friends and I couldn’t help our …
Sweet Dreams
… After a sleepy couple of years, Boston tourism is back with revamped hotels, … exciting in-house restaurants, and packages that celebrate the city’s triumphant return. In the heart of Harvard Square, The Charles Hotel ( www.charleshotel.com …
Issue: May-June 2023
Philanthropy in a New Key
… John Sage and Christopher Dearnley weren't like most of their peers at Harvard Business School. Neither had … of the Harvard Business School's Initiative on Social Enterprise. The way Sage chose to give appealed to McLean …
Stars, Bulls, and Bears
… an investor trying to decide which mutual fund will make the most of her retirement savings. As she reads prospectuses, the … every prospectus warns, "past performance is no guarantee of future results." Furthermore, track records say little …
Issue: May-June 2003
Football 2017: Harvard 6, Penn 23
… at Harvard Stadium, it was a blustery 29 degrees at kickoff. The frigidity of the weather would be matched by that of the Harvard …
President Lawrence S. Bacow to Step Down in 2023
… Lawrence S. Bacow, the University’s twenty-ninth president , announced today that he would step down at the end of the 2022-2023 academic year, concluding service that … nor the timing of today’s announcement are complete surprises: •In 2017, Bacow, then a member of the Corporation and …
“Don’t Zoom While Driving”
… 23, Harvard students’ experience with newly remote styles of learning began, as spring recess ended but classes resumed with their students dispersed around the globe, exiled from … differences between taxi companies and ride-sharing enterprises, from how one summons a ride to driver safety to …
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
… was how Nobel laureate Dudley R. Herschbach, Baird professor of science, described the oil painting of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin that he and his …
Issue: May-June 2020
The Uses of Discomfort
… participants,” Roeshana Moore-Evans, executive director of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative, told those … the fact that it was built by humans, and it’s comprised of humans. And the truth is, humans are messy. And …