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The Context: Life on the Mesopotamian Marshes—and the Specter of Drought
… This is the sixth post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival …
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 …
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
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, …
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 …
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 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
Claire Danes Honored as Woman of the Year
… Showered with teddy bears , flowers, and kisses from members of Hasty Pudding Theatricals , actress Claire Danes paraded through Harvard … as she was honored as the eccentric drama group’s “Woman of the Year.” Danes, who just won a Golden Globe for her …
Visions of the Opioid Crisis
… L ast year, a group of artists met with clients at the High Point Treatment Center in Brockton, Massachusetts, … The 11 sculptures on display in “Human Impact: Stories of the Opioid Epidemic” at the Fuller Craft Museum through …
Issue: January-February 2020
Games of Old
… How best to spend leisure time during the winter months? The cold, dark days of yesteryear called for story-telling, reading aloud, and … pencils to death masks. An 1814 board game, The Study of the Heavens at midnight during the winter solstice, …
Issue: January-February 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 …
Octavia Spencer Is Woman of the Year
… Hasty Pudding theatricals has named actress Octavia Spencer its 2017 Woman of the Year. Best known for her performance as Minny Jackson … and a determined one in Snowpiercer ; the worried mother of Oscar Grant in Fruitvale Station ; and an otter with a …