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Striving for “A Real Mix of People”
… In the 1980s, David Price ’77 lived in the Upham’s Corner section of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. “It was down and out … based. Nuestra owns the land on which Bartlett Place will rise, and is preparing to build there in four phases during …
Issue: January-February 2014
“The Instrument of Your Fate”
… The life lesson that grasped my soul was born amid the throes of war: If one does not manage the instrument of his fate, … truth, yet we have not fully embraced the reality. I am surprised to find myself a typical case study for veterans with …
The World’s Costliest Health Care
… L ONG BEFORE the presidential primaries, or a paralyzing pandemic, … by the national elections, that mattered to the future of the country—and that would probably be addressed … terms of health value received for dollars spent, may surprise you. It has certainly proven resistant to political …
Issue: May-June 2020
Harvard Cancelled Affinity Celebrations. Students Held Them Anyway.
… “There’s no class I would rather be addressing than you all,” … Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize winner and creator of the 1619 Project, to the hundreds of students and families gathered in a conference room at …
A New Way of Being in the World
… Chapek and pug mix Kafka , begin madly snarling at each other. “What are you doing, and why?! ” she demands. She … 14 books, from anthropology texts to novels to studies of cats, deer, and canines. The Hidden Life of Dogs (1993)—for which she traveled to the Canadian Arctic …
Issue: September-October 2019
The Eighth Day of the Week
… President Lawrence S. Bacow opened the fall term on September 4 with a Morning Prayers address, … president speaks in Memorial Church on the first day of classes. Bacow spoke about the virtues of reflection and contemplation, recounting an informal …
The Harvard Club of Boston Turns 100
… The Harvard Club of Boston, founded “to give effective expression to the Harvard spirit,” kicked off its centennial celebration with a rousing New Year’s Day …
Issue: March-April 2008
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
Five Questions with Audrey Chang ’25 of the Harvard Responsible Computing Club
… with a secondary degree in sociology. Chang is a member of the Harvard Responsible Computing Collective , a student club which aims to promote responsible use of technology in society. What is the Harvard Responsible …
The Brink of Revolution
… How to make sense of the U.S. Supreme Court? “Judicial opinions…can defy easy … nine men and women who make up the Court intrigue and surprise us.… Of course, an effort to understand the Roberts …
Issue: September-October 2014
Off the Shelf
… The Idea of Justice, by Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor (Harvard, $29.95). The Nobel Laureate explores … obtained the Pentagon Papers. Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines, and Wired Markets, by David J. Leinweber, Ph.D. …
Issue: November-December 2009
Marion Cotillard Chosen Woman of the Year
… Stellar dramatic performances, such as the very first scene French actress Marion Cotillard shot … earned her the Hasty Pudding Theatricals award as “Woman of the Year.” “My feeling was that, in that situation, which … and performer at a marine park who becomes the victim of a horrific attack in which a whale bites off her legs …
Covering the Uninsured
… any given month last year, 43 million Americans—17 percent of people under age 65—lacked either private health insurance or public coverage through … Uninsured. People with middle-class incomes comprise the other one-third of the uninsured. Some would be …
Issue: May-June 2004
Land of the Living
… Dressed in fleece and caps, binoculars slung around their necks, they enter by the Egyptian Revival gateway at 7 … Water and the flowering shrubs and trees attract thousands of migrating birds to this urban oasis each year. The birders’ hopes of hearing them, if not seeing them, rise with the sun. Nestled in the arms of a copy of Lorenzo …
Issue: May-June 2017
The Art of Stem Cells
… Jennifer Quick , a Ph.D. candidate in the department of the history of art and architecture, stood before her audience in the …