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Cousins in the Ancient World
… Using a new technique developed at Harvard and the Max Planck Institute, scientists can identify close relatives among people who lived thousands of years ago. A study published today demonstrates how the … and third cousins using ancient DNA can reveal evidence of extraordinary instances of individual migration. …
A Missive from Harvey Mansfield
… Kenan professor of government Harvey Mansfield wrote to this magazine in late November to share a story about the belated, posthumous publication of a dissertation he … (my publisher for the most part), and to my great surprise, it sailed through, praised to the skies. It would have …
Being Black at Work
… Diversity, equity, inclusion: these are the watchwords for companies hoping to foster the best talent, regardless of race. But do their efforts, like anti-bias workshops … is it like, wondered Ranjay Gulati, Lawrence M.B.A. class of 1942 professor of business administration, to be black at …
Issue: March-April 2022
Moving On
… Jonathan Gorham ’71 recently helped his mother move from a retirement community in Maine to an … the place we did because we liked the people and the sense of caring and because it offers a continuum of care.” … financial and emotional and physical complications that arise for families? Those are among the factors that have to …
Issue: July-August 2005
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
Endowment Gains: Last Hurrah?
… endowment $3.3 billion last fiscal year, to a new record of $22.6 billion as of June 30. Harvard Management Company (HMC) reported on September 15 that total investment return for the year was 21.1 percent, up smartly from the 12.5 percent …
Issue: November-December 2004
Cinema Through Dualities
… Every time he cued up a clip, and the lights dimmed in Sanders Theatre, the director Wim … and how it’s traversed. Journeys have been a defining theme of his career. Associated with the New German Cinema movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Wenders channeled his generation’s …
“Harvard Soldier Scholars”
… Before proud parents , friends, and a contingent of alumni veterans, four new “Harvard soldier scholars,” in the words of President Drew Faust, participated in the annual …
Their “Last Shot”
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Hanging from the rafters of Lavietes Pavilion are 11 banners that read “WOMEN,” each a permanent memento of an Ivy League Championship that head coach Kathy …
Harvard Faces Endowment Tax
… The tax changes enacted yesterday by the Republican majorities in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate and awaiting signing into law … investment income — but they did not incorporate most of the other features that most alarmed the higher-education …
Yesterday’s News
… 1913 In response to a petition from the Woodrow Wilson Club of Harvard, a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court rules that college students …
Issue: March-April 2018
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 …
An “Older Sister” to Combat Anemia
… It looks like the kind of applesauce squeeze bottle one would find in a child’s lunch box. Twist the top off Kiikter’s cheerful pastel pouch (complete with a …
Issue: November-December 2023
Stepwise
… “It’s so brutal ,” Elizabeth Claire Walker ’11 says of ballet, the art form she loves. The dancer isn’t just talking about … rehearsals, the aches and pains, and the wrenching pursuit of impossible physical ideals. She’s talking about the …
Issue: July-August 2016
Engineering Renewed
… Celebrating its own nifty bit of reengineering, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), elevated from …
Issue: September-October 2007