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Bulging with Bingsu
… My stomach growls in protest as I gulp down another spoonful of shaved ice and sweetened red bean puree. I … frozen milk, melted like snow right as it touched the tip of my tongue. The chunky red bean puree wasn’t overly sweet, …
Yesterday’s News
… 1911 The Corporation proposes that needy boys entering the … do anything that isn’t done,” the Bulletin shares a string of recent undergraduate antics, including a student who ate … that the University make the city a tercentenary gift of $300,000—“on the grounds that ‘Harvard receives many …
Issue: March-April 2021
Poet-novelist and Neuroscientist-explorer Launch Commencement Week
… and orator S. Allen Counter addressed an audience at the Sanders Theatre at the 225th Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) … a poet and novelist who teaches English at the University of Michigan, read five poems, most of them drawn from her 2011 collection Space, In Chains, …
Global Sushi
… A fishing boat in the harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Just 12 years ago, … was reeled in barely 48 hours before by the calloused hands of a third-generation New England fisherman. In several …
Issue: September-October 2002
It’s Academic
… A presidential search is a courting ritual: the Corporation tries to figure out what it wants … generate a common understanding about an agenda: think of it as a prenup. Ignoring the intimate details, here are … should increase, for reasons ill (the term bill now rises about 4 percent yearly, or $2,500) and good (the …
Issue: September-October 2017
Laura Levis
… The staff of Harvard Magazine mourns the loss of Laura Levis, who contributed significantly to …
Issue: November-December 2016
Chapter & Verse
… Wegener hopes someone can supply an earlier source for the remark "[I]t is often the higher nature that yields, because it is the most … A Country Doctor. Janice Weiss would like the source of the line, "Why do we feel so little at home in the world, …
Issue: March-April 2004
Abdul-Jabbar Praises Harvard’s Stand Against the Trump Administration
… There are more similarities than one might expect between … When he retired, “there were cheering crowds, a deep sense of accomplishment, and funny clothes—though I admit that … “And you don’t need a jockstrap.” Beyond the sense of celebration, Abdul-Jabbar said, he also had a “nervous …
Waiting to Inhale
… like snowboarding, skateboarding, rock climbing. They may reach heights (paragliding), or depths, as in free … Streeter descended on a weighted sled to a record depth of 400 feet and, using a balloon, returned to the surface on … awareness and a place where some kinds of pain also arise. (Autonomic breathing, the kind we do when asleep, is …
Issue: March-April 2006
President Bok's Annual Report
… to find myself again in Massachusetts Hall after an absence of 15 years. Although the University was..." Ladies and Gentlemen , I have the … to Harvard’s alumni, who, to no experienced observer’s surprise, have remained exceptionally loyal to the University …
Choosing Confidants
… “I coulda’ been a contender,” erupts Marlon Brando, as the former boxer and dispirited dockworker Terry, in the … from On the Waterfront. “I coulda’ been somebody. Instead of a bum, which is what I am—let’s face it.” Terry is … have argued that each person’s closest, strongest ties comprise the core discussion network, but no one has empirically …
Issue: January-February 2015
Graduate School Medalists
… Each June , the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the school’s founding, …
Issue: July-August 2006
Professor Video
… Near the University of Bologna—the world’s oldest, founded in 1088—is a medieval museum … displaying carved memorial plaques that honor great professors of the past. “They all show the professor on the …
Issue: November-December 2009
Cambridge 02138
… website regularly for breaking University news (and news of alumni ) plus multimedia material complementing articles. … for diabetes. And learn what Harvard experts think about the unfolding financial crisis —a different kind of risk. THE ECONOMIC AGENDA I was pleased to see Professor …
Issue: November-December 2008
Harvard Men Keep Their Edge, Beat Columbia and Cornell
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Following the … to Holy Cross and Dartmouth earlier this season, analysts offered a range of explanations for what ailed the Crimson. Some lamented …