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The Black…and the Red
… budget surplus—some $298 million, up from $196 million in the prior year—according to the University’s annual … most recent year now total $769 million—the happy result of the proceeds from the $9.62 billion Harvard Campaign, a … in a uncertain, volatile world. Harvard’s costs will rise as expensive new facilities open, financial aid …
Issue: January-February 2020
The Tao of Crew
… Click-boom-sssshhh. Click-boom-sssshhh --amid the accolades and hardships of academic life, nothing else has so defined my Harvard … up their slides to prepare for the next stroke. Some form of this rhythm is present during every stroke taken by a …
The Payout Payoff
… Following two years of high investment returns on endowment assets, the Harvard Corporation has approved an increase in funds … $840 million). The new formula holds to that 4 percent rise for 2006, but adds an additional sum of up to 4 percent …
Issue: March-April 2005
The Post-Roe World
… “Clarity is power,” said Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) dean Michelle Williams, at the school’s panel last week on the post- Roe United States. … ebbs, the number of children put up for adoption will rise. The experts disagree. A study at the University of …
Family Newsletters of Holidays Past
… On Christmas Day 1948, 28-year-old Marie Harris took to the typewriter in her family’s Shedd, Oregon, farmhouse and … moved three times and had three children in the span of several years, she felt there was “much too much news” … Her first Harris Herald was a three-page update full of the quotidian in all its sweetness: their house had green …
Issue: November-December 2021
Putting the Tea Party in Perspective
… The modern Tea Party , like other political movements before … to cast imported tea into Boston harbor. In a witty account of the uses and abuses of history—mostly for political ends— … influence in American politics, one reason for the rise of the latter-day Tea Party. Even as she points out the …
The Cell’s Power Plant
… at Harvard for medical school and found that New England weather was like nothing he’d known growing up in Texas, he was … snow. When he arrived, she gave him a towel to dry off. Then, as she made dinner, the storm became a blizzard, … stress of physical exercise. This result didn’t surprise him, because of the numerous adaptive responses to …
Issue: November-December 2018
The Middle Class on the Precipice
… During the past generation, the American middle-class family that … higher costs and increased risks, the old financial rules of credit have been rewritten by powerful corporate … in income has an overlooked side effect: family risk has risen as well. Today’s families have budgeted to the limits …
Issue: January-February 2006
The Education of a Harvard Lawyer
… In the photograph here, taken on an overcast morning in the fall of 1956, you see the smartest Harvard Law School students in … summer internship positions. And—what a wonderful surprise!—some of them invited me to interview. So much for the …
Issue: January-February 2021
Remaking the Grid
… was still a high-school freshman when he learned that one of his crossword puzzles had been accepted for publication by The New York Times . “I was just getting out of gym class,” he recalls, “and I saw the subject line …
Issue: March-April 2019
The “Accidental” Fall of the Berlin Wall
… In 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood in front of Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate, then cut off from the West by the Berlin Wall, and issued a challenge …
The Society of St. John the Evangelist
… The Society of St. John the Evangelist , a small monastic community of the Episcopal Church, has two locations with open chapels …
Issue: January-February 2012
The Era of Inequality
… Timothy Noah ’80, then of Slate (and now at The New Republic ), set out to document and understand a new, and unsettling, state of affairs that has finally attracted wide attention—in part …
Issue: May-June 2012
Masters of Metal
… "Glory and prosperity" are the first words of a benediction often inscribed on medieval Islamic metalwork, and any …
Issue: May-June 2002
The Oz of Health Insurance Reform
… The man to whom the Obama administration turned to run the … reform—including the insurance mandate now at the center of a Supreme Court maelstrom—is Jonathan Gruber , Ph.D. ’92, a professor of economics at MIT. A profile of Gruber , whose …