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In Flight
… In the fall of 2015, Maciek Nabrdalik , a Warsaw-based … photographer, turned to a contemporary humanitarian crisis: the plight of refugees fleeing ceaseless wars. Nabrdalik, a Nieman …
Issue: January-February 2017
Chapter & Verse
… Thomas Gutheil seeks the name “of a (regrettably not recent) … to combat this.” Robert Kemp would like to learn the origin of an expression frequently used by his father: “Such is …
Issue: May-June 2014
Boston Baroque at 50
… in America. “I was curious what would happen if I got the very few people who could play well on those instruments … at the time together,” he says. “There were not even a lot of recordings then, and a lot of what we learned about the … popularity have grown over five decades still sometimes surprises Pearlman. “I just wanted to do some concerts,” he says …
Issue: November-December 2023
“Shopping Week” Extended
… students’ cherished “shopping week”—for sampling classes at the start of each term before registering formally—may not have nine … But, the committee concluded, uncertain course enrollments arise from “FAS’s commitment to accommodate student demand as …
Empty Nets
… On some golden days, you can forget the laptop and take a snorkel to work. For a month of those days, last summer on Bali, I pursued alternative … the ocean currents for three to four weeks. Much to our surprise, the Celebes Sea and Java populations showed a genetic …
Fourth-Century Church Tales
… Mount Athos, jutting up from the Aegean Sea in northeastern Greece, is a place of austere traditions. Twenty Greek Orthodox monasteries … in the first centuries of the Christian church. This surprise appears in a manuscript that François Bovon, now …
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 …
Scenes from a Disaster Zone
… I visited Kesennuma in northern Japan on June 4 and 5. The city had been particularly … and the major fires that followed. The enormous power of the tsunami, especially, had demonstrated to people all … dead. The deaths in this town alone are estimated to comprise a very significant portion of the tsunami’s total death …
Fanny Kemble
… When Fanny Kemble landed in the United States in the fall of 1832, her formidable theatrical reputation had whipped up a frenzy of anticipation. Born into the first family of the English …
Kennedy School, Under Construction
… The Harvard Kennedy School aims to build students’ capacity … image above), work was well under way to raise the level of the interior courtyard, install utility space in a new … with a new “gateway” structure that includes faculty offices and other spaces. The second and third images show …
Issue: March-April 2016
When Water Is Safer Than Land
… “.… you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the … “Home” The jubilation that accompanied the brief flowering of the Arab Spring is long gone as its deadly aftermath—in … should we think about the recurring migration and refugee “crises” that present themselves with almost predictable …
Issue: January-February 2016
Free Speech: Testing
… So often was he grilled by the press in the days before he delivered his controversial address, that Zayed M. Yasin '02 prepared a handout of frequently asked questions and responses. Nightline had …
Issue: July-August 2002
High-speed, Rocksteady
… Instead of ending with a car chase, this film starts with one: Royal … souped-up sedan down two-lane roads and through cornfields. The guys lose the cops and succeed in selling the drugs … prescription medications from Canada for a grateful group of hard-pressed elderly Americans. Rocksteady, a …
Issue: July-August 2012
Harvard Appoints Ritu Kalra as New CFO
… Harvard’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer, filling an important vacancy created by the planned retirement of Thomas J. Hollister on June 30. … funds that keep the University, now a $6-billion-plus enterprise, ticking. From the community’s perspective, it is …
Volumes to Write
… “Hope” is the thing with feathers— That perches in the soul— And sings … stops—at all— Emily Dickinson My roommates threw a surprise birthday party for me the week our friend Vadim checked … was going to be just fine. Because when it is freshman year of college and your friend checks into the hospital with …
Issue: September-October 2016