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Gun Laws and the Science of Harm
… In the wake of the tragic killings of more than two dozen people, mostly …
Three Stonecutters: On the Future of Business Education
… As part of its centennial celebration, Harvard Business School (HBS) addressed the future training of business leaders during morning … of the last few weeks. The crisis we confront has not arisen from any widespread breakdown in individual ethics, …
Arctic Meltdown Turns Up the Heat
… At the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied … She notes that the number of fires in the region have risen between 2015 and 2017, and the rise in temperature contributes to a dry climate that is …
The Humanities, Digitized
… “ If you feel queasy , I can turn this off,” offers Peter Der Manuelian . At the flight controls of a small aircraft, the King professor … media and networked communication have changed the way crises unfold in a community. “When you have real-time …
Issue: May-June 2012
The Weight of Scale
… In Scale & the Incas (Princeton University Press, $65) , Andrew James Hamilton, Ph.D. ’14, examines the role of size—manifest in tiny conopas (hand-held idols) and massive stonework—in the art of this vanished South American civilization. Scale, he …
Issue: November-December 2018
The Art of Healing
… Suzanne Koven has a novel role. The primary-care physician and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) is also the …
“The Tug of History”
… The honorable David H. Souter ’61, LL.B. ’66, LL.D. ’10, … Court rose for the summer recess in 2009, and a couple of weeks later I drove north from Washington [to New … I could do. I couldn’t ask for more. And while the quality of the workmanship may be pronounced good, bad, or …
Issue: September-October 2011
Andy Borowitz Loosens Up the Library of America
… up with a more serious (and worthy) mission statement than The Library of America's: The Library of America was founded in 1979 to … in 1982. Among those who conceived of this publishing enterprise was Thomas professor of English and American literature …
Audio: The Class of ’66 Remembers
… things as undergraduates, but a close connection with each other wasn’t one of them. Exchanging stories about what it was like to handle … God for reunions. They’ve been my main means of getting to know my classmates as individual human …
The Lost Museum
… Lasser was searching in Harvard’s archives for clues to the whereabouts of a portrait by John Singleton Copley, missing since the … continues, an approach akin to the art historians’ has arisen under the catchall term of “new materialism.” …
Jonathan Shaw , Jennifer Carling
Issue: May-June 2017
Bryan Stevenson on the Shadow of White Supremacy
… The audience could sense where the story was going almost as … been available only to whites. A swim they’d been dreaming of for years. As Stevenson, J.D.-M.P.A.’85, LL.D. ’15 , kept talking, an electricity of unease began to intensify among the listeners packed into …
Ryan Reynolds Is Man of the Year
… Hasty Pudding Theatricals has named actor and producer Ryan Reynolds its 2017 Man of the Year. Reynolds also received a 2017 Golden Globe nomination for playing the title character of the superhero film Deadpool, and in 2011 was chosen by …
Garrett Graff '03 Appointed Editor of The Washingtonian
… Garrett M. Graff '03, a former Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow of Harvard Magazine , has been appointed editor of The Washingtonian --only the third individual to hold …
Reinforcing Harvard’s Finances
… Just after placing $434 million of tax-exempt bonds to pay for capital projects , Harvard is returning to the market to borrow $750 million of taxable debt, fueling speculation about its uses for the …
Widener Library: Youthful at the Core
… The rejuvenation of Widener Library progresses. The Phillips … for use in October, a major new something-to-see. It is one of two nearly identical reading rooms built within the … in general, the library speeded up planned installation of machines that read identification cards at the entrances to …
Issue: January-February 2002