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Buildings and Benefits
… The story of Harvard's 2003 budget came down to benefits and … open and are financed, operating and interest costs rise; during the year, debt outstanding increased about $400 … remain low. Health-benefit costs continued to surge, having risen nearly 90 percent during the past five years, and …
Issue: January-February 2004
Harvard and the Cult of Robert E. Lee
… The new year has arrived, which means the Sons of … life in New York, San Francisco and Boston. They are surprised when I explain how, in the early twentieth century, …
Industrial Lives
… Professor Donald Davenport of the Harvard Business School hoped to teach the incipient … them, from 115 companies. These images of men, women, and machines are today among more than 20,000 photographs at the …
Issue: January-February 2007
The Music of Birds... and Whales
… In 2000, David Rothenberg ’84 arrived at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh at … settled in to “jam with the birds.” It was the first of many sessions there, and others abroad—from Estonia to Australia, where he played in a sanctuary with “one of the shyest yet grandest singers in the world, the …
Issue: March-April 2007
A Culinary Tour of the New Smith Campus Center
… With the opening of the new Smith Campus Center this semester, the Harvard … for Swissbäkers, which originated in Canada—serve a variety of foods and fuels, from bagels to barbecued pork, and stay …
Striving for “A Real Mix of People”
… In the 1980s, David Price ’77 lived in the Upham’s Corner section of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. “It was down and out … based. Nuestra owns the land on which Bartlett Place will rise, and is preparing to build there in four phases during …
Issue: January-February 2014
The Mystique of Red Top
… The long list of past results is studded with footnotes that illuminate some of the more peculiar races. In 1870, for example, “Yale ran …
Issue: May-June 2010
The Cost of Political Violence
… Donald Trump, rising political violence is once again in the news. On Thursday afternoon, the Harvard Kennedy School convened a panel of scholars to discuss how Americans’ attitudes have … The bottom line? “The fight to uphold democracy is all of our fights,” said Hardy Merriman, president of the …
Helen Mirren Honored as Woman of the Year
… Square this afternoon atop a white Bentley with members of Hasty Pudding Theatricals to be honored by the cross-dressing drama group as “Woman of the Year.” Mirren, best known for her Oscar-winning …
Refining the Allston Master Plan
… A year ago , Harvard filed three sets of plans for building in Allston with the City of Boston: a master plan for the new Allston … one factor that determines how fast an Allston campus will rise. Demand will be another. As Gordon puts it: “When do …
Issue: January-February 2008
Wynton Marsalis on the Soul of Jazz
… In the city of New Orleans , after the Civil War and into the first decade of the twentieth century, brass bands could be heard playing …
Taking the Fight for Equality into the AI Era
… “Who here had any democratic input into ChatGPT?” Catherine D’Ignazio asked the audience at the Radcliffe … Amid laughter, a lone voice piped up from the back of the room to call ChatGPT’s development “the greatest heist of human intellectual property in the history of the world.” …
Muscle of Optimism
… Most people think of the human heart as a fist-sized, valve-studded chunk of muscle, a pump bright red as Superman's cape and nearly …
Issue: March-April 2002
Covering the Uninsured
… any given month last year, 43 million Americans—17 percent of people under age 65—lacked either private health insurance or public coverage through … Uninsured. People with middle-class incomes comprise the other one-third of the uninsured. Some would be …
Issue: May-June 2004
The Purpose of Harvard Law School
… (HLS) experienced an intensely public moral crisis. After the portraits of African-American professors were found defaced in … justice and the well-being of society, Nader seemed surprised by the question: “Well, largely they’re training …