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Harvard Portrait: Andrew Manuel Crespo
… client on Christmas Eve 2011. Handcuffed and shackled, the client had just celebrated, in juvenile lockup, his … being stunned,” recalls the newly appointed assistant law professor. “Like, this is my job now: I represent … two-time Supreme Court clerk and the first Latino president of the Harvard Law Review, Crespo aims to interrogate the …
Issue: July-August 2015
Harvard Portrait: Yosvany Terry
… training and unsure which instrument to focus on, the nine-year-old was considering the woodwind when he saw a … and chekeré player (the percussion instrument made of a hollow gourd covered in a net of beads), Terry and his brothers grew up serious about …
Issue: January-February 2016
The Picture of Freedom
… The two photographic albums at the center of the Boston … are rare and remarkable artifacts, containing dozens of carte-de-visite portraits that shed light on an …
Separate and Unequal
… The way Kim Gutschow '88, Ph.D. '98, Jf '00, sees it, Americans have a lot of misconceptions about Buddhism — especially Tibetan … Gutschow, an ethnographer and now a visiting assistant professor of religion at Williams College, Westerners tend to …
Issue: November-December 2004
Harvard Medalists
… Three people received the Harvard Medal for outstanding service to the University … Alumni Association’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. Albert Carnesale — You were a towering source of strength for the Harvard community, serving as a …
Issue: July-August 2011
Diamonds for Tiffany
… Last year's Ivy League Player of the Year, Whitton hits for average, power, and RBIs … — with the Ivy title up for grabs — Princeton's softball squad came to Harvard for a doubleheader that filled …
Issue: May-June 2003
Harvard to Keep Arthur Sackler’s Name on Museum and Building
… The Harvard Corporation has accepted a recommendation not to … request was originally submitted in October 2022 by a group of students who argued that Arthur Sackler’s association … dename Winthrop House is ongoing. In 1952, Arthur Sackler cofounded, with his two brothers, the pharmaceutical company …
Cambridge 02138
… “Fair Harvard” and History I was greatly surprised to find my name prominent in the lead sentence of “ ‘ Puritans’ Passé? ” (The College Pump, July-August, …
Issue: September-October 2017
Lights! Camera! Action!
… $5-million makeover, Harvard Stadium may be one of the nation’s best-equipped college football venues. First … came a removable protective bubble, allowing year-round use of the playing field. Then came floodlights. After 651 home …
Issue: November-December 2007
Write It!
… Why not carve out time for a writing retreat through The Muse & The Marketplace? Organized by Boston’s nonprofit creative-writing center Grub Street, the annual … one, April 21-25, more than 65 speakers and workshops will offer lessons and insights to writers of all styles, genres, …
Issue: March-April 2021
India's Promise
… Things have never been as good for India as they appear to be today. Its economy has grown by nearly 6 … polity. In contrast to the near-famine conditions of the mid 1960s, the country sits on a mountain of grain … Contravening all constitutional norms, it precipitated crises by trying to topple opposition-led governments in …
Issue: July-August 2005
Harvard Launches Sustainability Plan
… The University has unveiled an ambitious five-year Sustainability Plan —the first of its kind for Harvard—detailing a strategy to build on … and well-being, and culture and learning. The plan, officials said, aligns Harvard’s decentralized campus around …
Edward Sheldon
… The portrait below of Edward Sheldon '08, A.M. '08, shows the first promising American playwright of the last century as he must have looked when he was in … playwriting class "47 Workshop," Sheldon seems to have surprised no one when, within five years of graduation, he was …
Harvard Imposes Single-Gender Social Club Sanctions
… Harvard College will implement the sanctions on student membership in unrecognized … first announced by President Drew Faust and dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana in May 2016 . The news came at the beginning of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting this …
Impermanent Art
… The darkest recesses of our refrigerators can harbor ghastly … if the hallmarks of its decay--insects, mildew, rot--comprise its intentionally changing aesthetic? Perishable art by … the Artist Documentation Project, an ambitious enterprise to gather information from modern artists in order to …
Issue: January-February 2002