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Authorial Synapses
… William Faulkner didn't so much write The Sound and the Fury as erupt with it, pouring out the masterpiece in a matter of weeks, his words and ideas as unstoppable as a flood. … that eager and joyous faith and anticipation of surprise." Like Faulkner, many writers have periods of frenzied …
Issue: January-February 2004
Science Surges
… Applied Tech 1 Harvard’s Office of Technology Development and Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have launched the Grid: a hub for funding, mentorship, and education … for their philanthropy and said they hope the new enterprise will spur cooperation among “cognitive scientists and …
Issue: November-December 2022
Goal-Oriented
… year. "My mind was beginning to drift a bit," he says about the fall of 1965. "I mean, football was important, but I'd pick up … would read about the marchers, and I began to ask questions of myself. It wasn't that what I was doing wasn't worth …
Issue: November-December 2004
Lorenzo Tañada
… “Have you known how it feels to be tear-gassed?” the 86-year-old former senator shouted at police chiefs and … LL.M. ’28, had joined what he called “the parliament of the streets,” marching against the antidemocratic rule of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and the regime’s …
Issue: November-December 2020
Harvard College Admits 772 Early Applicants
… Harvard College announced today that 772 of 4,231 applicants for nonbinding early admission had been accepted. The College reinstated early admission as an option for the class entering next fall , after a four-year period of offering only the common, regular admission procedure. …
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
Russia’s “Loose Nukes”
… For all the renewed debate about national missile defense--the "Star Wars" program, and the threat of attack by rogue nuclear states like North Korea--there is … Material. Fortunately, today we do not have Cuban missile crises that force citizens to experience existentially the …
Laughing at Slavery
… In his 1997 book Rock This! the black comedian Chris Rock sends up the “Uncle Tom” stereotype of a subservient African American who kowtows to the … Tom. I know that if I was in a fight, Aunt Tom would take off his pumps and whip some ass.” This example appears in …
Issue: March-April 2009
Harvard Portrait: John Asher Johnson
… John Asher Johnson , his wife, Erin Johnson, and their young sons Owen and Marcus meandered by car from Caltech to Cambridgeport last summer—a mere flick of an eye for the new professor of astronomy, who studies exoplanets , light years …
Issue: January-February 2014
Winter Retreat
… I n 1962, a group of hard-working, eager Harvard Mountaineering Club members … skills and tools managed to erect a log cabin on the eastern slope of Mount Washington. It’s still there—and anyone who wants …
Issue: January-February 2020
Loker Lunch
… Harvard's new student-center-cum-food-court, spreads out in the reclaimed basement of Memorial Hall. Descend through the new brick and granite … and, for color, electronic signboards running the length of the commons and at the end of the hall. It's what the …
Cherry Murray Steps Down as Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean
… Cherry A. Murray , dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) since … of those collaborations are not yet finalized). The surprise announcement comes as SEAS— established as a …
Making Mingling Manageable
… Midway through my senior year of high school, my father and I attended a welcoming event for already-admitted members of Harvard’s class of 2010. We walked in, were given …
Issue: January-February 2009
Skull Session
… Daniel Lieberman's research explores the wonders of the human head: all the functions that take … January-February 2011 issue.) In this video, Lieberman, a professor of human evolutionary biology, gives readers a tour …
Issue: January-February 2011
A Real-World Response Paper
… One evening in the fall of 2006, Sangu Delle and Darryl Finkton sat talking on the steps of Weld Hall. In Ghana, Delle, whose father works for the …
Issue: November-December 2009