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In Egypt, Doors Closing
… In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Change ’91 explored the shift of millions of Chinese women from an age-old rural life into the global …
Issue: May-June 2024
Comic License
… In the television show Master of None , two Asian-American … parents to dinner. Awkwardly, one announces the purpose of the meal: “We wanted to learn more about you and how you …
Issue: July-August 2017
Harvard Reports Top Administrators’ and Investment Managers’ Pay
… 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020), including information on the earnings of University leaders, and the accompanying Harvard … reported as a nontaxable benefit. The one surprise, perhaps, is the $699,590 compensation (plus benefits) …
Public Health Dean to Step Down
… Michelle Williams, dean of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), announced November 10 that she …
A Man and His Castle
… Hammond Castle Museum is a romantic pastiche of medieval and Renaissance European architecture, a passionate testament to the past where John Hays Hammond Jr. foresaw the … what they are seeing,” he continues—but they are always surprised and impressed by the castle’s myriad ingenuities. And …
Issue: November-December 2020
Imagining Harvard at 400
… Five younger faculty members convened at the first Conversations @ FAS panel of 2012, to discuss what the University might become when it … presentation on “the challenges and opportunities that arise from the exponential increase in data, and the ways we …
College Friends
… was recently telling me that it gets harder after college. There just won’t be this many people your age around ever … jobs and apartments far away from yours and plenty of friends already. At college everyone has so much time; … she added. My Harvard social experience has consisted of a handful of very close friendships amid a truckload of …
Issue: September-October 2017
How We Eat Out Now
… Earlier this year, the Cajun-French bistro Café du Pays in Kendall Square began … at the site, channeling the enduring spirit now required of any Greater Boston independent restaurant during the … all the stops, just to make it,” says chef Tony Maws, owner of Craigie on Main (now serving family-style meals in its …
Issue: November-December 2020
A Night at Gustazo
… grown from a homey storefront in Belmont, serving a handful of authentic specials, to two locations—in Cambridge and a new … work. Carelessly handled, empanadas become tasteless wads of dough. Happily, none of this occurs at Gustazo, where …
Issue: March-April 2020
Relieving Pain
… “When we treat pain, the first thing we do is try to eliminate the source of pain, say, by relieving compression on a nerve,” says professor of anesthesiology Carol A. Warfield. “When this …
Issue: November-December 2005
Vita: Irna Phillips
… Thornton Wilder’s observation that “art is not only the desire to tell one’s secret; it is the desire to tell it … innovations included adding doctors, lawyers, and other professionals as characters and cliff-hanger endings for … historians have long acknowledged the impact on the genre of As the World Turns in particular. When it premiered in …
Issue: January-February 2013
Yesterday’s News
… 1914 The Class of 1918—with 704 matriculants (up from 622 a year before)—moves into Gore, Standish, and Smith Halls, the new dormitories created by President Lowell as a way to … efforts to publicize Harvard nationally. 1924 A number of “radical changes in policy and service have been made in …
Issue: September-October 2019
Our Towns
… Heading west by small plane from the East Coast, writes James Fallows ’70, “you have a sense of going uphill, and into drier air. Mile by mile you leave … River and toward the broad, brown Missouri, the land slowly rises, the vegetation becomes sparser and more …
Issue: May-June 2018
Social Educator
… "Slavery has been a step-child of the human-rights movement," Jesse Sage '98 declares, and it … Sage was an arts editor on the Independent and part of a rock band, but "didn't take part in anything activist." …
Issue: May-June 2002
Thicker than Water
… spectators witnessed a rarity in college aquatics: three brothers racing in the same competition. Crimson co-captain … the 50-, 100-, and 200-yard freestyle. In the anchor leg of the 4 x 100-yard freestyle relay, Chris and Tim went … the meet, garnering 13 wins in 16 events. “They blew us out of the water,” says Tim, “but the trash talking was all …
Issue: March-April 2014