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Truth: A Love Story
… There are three sides to every story—yours, mine, and the … my biological father. What followed was a challenging path of learning and insight into family truths that ultimately … that makes perfect sense.” That only compounded my surprise and bewilderment. But it also instinctively resonated …
Issue: July-August 2019
Boston Fire Museum
… In 1891, firefighters at the Congress Street station house typically worked nine days straight, then got a day off to “go home and get a change of clothes and more food,” says William Warnock, director of …
Issue: September-October 2016
Every Play Breaks a Record
… Watch him this fall, if you can: football players of Clifton Dawson’s caliber don’t show up very often in Harvard Stadium. The record books, in fact, have never seen his equal: Dawson … of the 2006 Canadian Football League draft; don’t be surprised if an NFL team picks him in their draft next April. …
Issue: September-October 2006
“Presenting Jane” at Harvard
… During the summer of 1952, poets John Ashbery ’49, Litt.D. ’01, … O’Hara ’50, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch ’48, among other friends, all convened at a house in the Hamptons to … by critics and historians as the New York School—a sort of loose association of writers and artists all working and …
Bake at 375
… Joanne Chang ’91, owner of the three Flour Bakery + Café venues in Boston, will create … for Harvard's 375th birthday party on October 14. Chang, profiled in Harvard Magazine' s Montage section in 2008, …
Education Angels
… His nine-year deanship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education concluded, Jerome … expectations have grown much faster than the performance of the schools." Jerome T. Murphy Photograph by Eric Fowke …
Theda Skocpol address to PBK
… Working Together to Meet the Public Challenges of This Time Theda … and subsequent rollbacks of hard-won rights and the brutal rise of Jim Crow. Reflect as well on the generation that …
Living Collections
… I am more of a runner than a rambler— measuring my time outdoors in miles rather than moments—but life in pandemic mode has forced me to … individual woody plants, including celebrated holdings of beech, forsythia, ginkgo, hemlock, hickory, maple, and …
Issue: March-April 2022
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Elected Directors
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected …
Issue: July-August 2018
News Briefs
… Final Steps on Final Clubs? At the November 7 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting, … credit would not count toward the new limit. This issue has risen in importance as barriers to cross-registration have …
Issue: January-February 2018
A Man in Motion
… Two momentous journeys began in 1831: the young Alexis de Tocqueville left Le Havre for the United … toured the Mississippi. In Tocqueville's Discovery of America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27), Bernbaum professor of literature Leo Damrosch recalls the young …
Issue: March-April 2010
“If We Cannot Break Through, We Just Find a Way Around”
… “It is time we connected the dots” among labor unions, work, and peace, 2011 … Day on May 27. “Political freedom is only a shadow of economic freedom,” said Bhatt, a past member of India's parliament and the founder of the Self Employed …
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Chicken (Super-Savory Grated Tofu) Recipe
… Grating super-firm tofu is one of my favorite party tricks in the kitchen. It makes tofu not only quicker to prepare (no …
Get Away To France: “Hopping Around”
… France is a first-world country with an integrated system of high-speed trains, subways, and cobblestone avenues. … most easily accessible to tourists become choke points of loud foreigners that make the evacuation of the Titanic look organized. In order to …
Umm Kulthum Ibrahim
… Imagine a singer with the virtuosity of Joan Sutherland or Ella Fitzgerald, the public persona of Eleanor Roosevelt, and the audience of Elvis, and you …