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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
Faculty, Family, Diversity
… In her first annual report, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) senior advisor to … results in recruiting female faculty members, and some of the real obstacles to effecting change in the composition …
Issue: January-February 2007
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 …
Marshall Ganz
… Few who drop out of college for 27 years later return to join the Harvard faculty. But Marshall Ganz ’64, M.P.A. ’93, … he recalls. “They were fruitful years that ended with a lot of hurt. A tragic story of success consuming itself. ” The …
Issue: November-December 2010
William Morris Davis
… Naught looks the same for long… Waters rush on, make valleys where once … echoing Pythagoras, alludes to geomorphology: the study of the forms taken by the earth’s surface, and what causes … devised a clear, concise, descriptive, and idealized model of landscape evolution that revolutionized and in many ways …
Issue: September-October 2018
Yesterday's News
… 1932 Guided by meteorologists’ advice to find a spot in the lee of a large lake—to avoid the cumulus clouds typical of New England August afternoons—the 17-member Harvard …
Issue: July-August 2017
Off the Shelf
… Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy (W.W. Norton, $29.99). The author, Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history, writes often about Ukraine and about …
Issue: November-December 2024
See Their Faces
… The pictures are spectral, disorienting portals into the slave South. The 15 daguerreotypes of South Carolina slaves, taken by Joseph Zealy at the behest of Swiss-born Harvard naturalist Louis Agassiz in 1850, …
Cambridge 02138
… A Too-Political Madison? In his review of a book about James Madison ( “America’s Little Giant,” January-February, page 56), Lincoln Caplan makes the statement that the Electoral College is “obsolete.” I … power, federal encroachment into citizens’ daily lives, the rise of the administrative state, and the permanence of …
Issue: March-April 2018
Brevia
… Adams House Exit Judith and Sean Palfrey, both of the College class of ’67, announced in December that they … years, to pursue opportunities in for-profit biotech enterprises. During the past year, she came under criticism for …
Issue: March-April 2021
Aisha Price: Women’s Water Polo
… Aisha Price ’13, women’s water polo co-captain, is one of Harvard’s leading scorers: she finished last year with 65 goals and 24 assists. An alumna of the Punahou School in Honolulu, the versatile Price also …
Issue: May-June 2013
University People
… The care and nurturing of the 3,100 students and 2,200 scholars who come from abroad … are now in new hands. Sharon R. Ladd became director of the International Office March 1. In that position, she …
Harvard Medalists
… Moose, Ph.D. ’68, and Robert D. Reischauer ’63—received the 2015 Harvard Medal for “extraordinary service to the … Alumni Association’s (HAA) annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. President Drew Faust read the … Achievement Award in 2012 and the College admissions office’s Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships …
Issue: July-August 2015
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
“Ukraine Today, Taiwan Tomorrow?”
… continues its war in Ukraine, many have wondered about the potential consequences for Taiwan. Could China be … and strong Western response discourage a reining in of Taiwan? For Steven Goldstein, emeritus professor of government at Smith College and associate of the …