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Can America Compete?
… Does the United States face insoluble economic challenges? In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession, … strategy (identifying the elements that can make an enterprise distinctive and successful, sorting out the defining …
Issue: September-October 2012
Birthing a Legacy
… on November 22, 1963, crowds flooded a tree-lined block in the Boston suburb of Brookline. A simple outdoor memorial service took place in front of 83 Beals Street, where Kennedy, a beacon of hope and …
Issue: May-June 2017
John Gilbert Winant
… lifetime, especially for his exemplary service as governor of New Hampshire. Comparisons of his character to that of Lincoln were frequent and … Instead he returned to teach history at St. Paul's, where the rector recognized in him "a great and rare gift of …
Election Special
… The candidate and the diplomat: Aggrey Awori and Thelma … '65 and Thelma (Traub) Awori '65 spoke to a rapt audience of classmates in the Science Center. He is currently a … She described with feeling the frustrations that arise when African governments must cut back on basic …
Cambridge 02138
… SPECTRUM OF AUTISM OPINIONS As the parent of a child with autism and a writer on the subject for About.com, I enjoyed reading “ A Spectrum of …
Issue: March-April 2008
Arts and Sciences: Strong Finances, and an Aging Faculty
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ dean’s annual report for the 2022-2023 academic year was the principal subject of the FAS meeting on November 7. Before presenting it, Hopi … members—now numbers 730, up from 723 last year. Having risen from 657 members in 2004-2005 to 721 in 2008-2009, …
Tracy K. Smith ’94 Named U.S. Poet Laureate
… TRACY K. SMITH ’94 has been named the new U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress, succeeding Juan Felipe Herrera. While the role doesn’t carry many specific official duties, it has traditionally involved raising …
Cambridge 02138
… The Legacy of Slavery As a substantive matter, reparations … merited but unfortunately competing against the legion of other horrific historical crimes crying out for … fund the remaining House renewals….” The slavery projects arise because some ancient benefactors of Harvard, by today’s …
Issue: July-August 2023
A Notable Dean
… The appointment of Thomas professor of government and sociology Theda Skocpol as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and …
Issue: July-August 2005
edX’s Expansion—and Issues
… The edX online-learning venture, one year old in May , has … operating entity for the initiative, shows signs of both expanding ambitions and the interesting questions … are also members of the for-profit Coursera online enterprise.) Suggesting edX's international focus—and Harvard's …
World’s Fair
… "I am the opposite of a cynic about law and lawyers," said New … on Wednesday, June 4. "I am a romantic. I think your profession has made this country what it is at its best, the freest and most wisely ordered on earth." How soon they …
Barbara Lawrence
… When a forest fire broke out on the Wyoming dude ranch where Barbara Lawrence was working as … on natural-history collecting expeditions for the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) in the 1930s, first in the Mojave Desert and then in the jungles of Southeast Asia. In the Philippines, “Although I set traps …
Issue: January-February 2025
Getting Lost
… Last summer , my college friends got lost around the world. One roamed the shadowy tunnels of Mayan ruins in Copan, while another hopped from train to … Cambridgeport community one muggy June evening in search of Hoyt Field, a popular youth hangout in one of Cambridge's …
Hail Fellows!
… E. J. Cadenhead and Swathi Kella to its editorial staff as the 2021-2022 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows. Besides alternating as authors of the “Undergraduate” column, starting in the next issue, … about student activities and concerns and other aspects of Harvard life. Cadenhead, of Dobbs Ferry, New York, and …
Issue: September-October 2021
Is Small Beautiful?
… (MOOCs)with a bold promise: “Online education will change the world.” In the years since, the hype surrounding MOOCs … has oscillated between outsized optimism and declarations of fast failure. There were early signals of hope: more than 180,000 students registered for CS50x, …
Issue: July-August 2015