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Lives in Television
… As president of programming for MTV, Susanne Daniels ’87 has to be sharp … host was on set, Daniels confided yesterday to a room full of students, faculty, and staff at the Barker Center, Michaels asked Daniels “to please keep …
Woodcarving: A Master Class
… width:407] Master woodcarver David Esterly ’66— profiled in the July-August issue of this magazine —describes the art of carving limewood, …
Leap, Arch, and Tuck
… Citius, Altius, Fortius— that’s the Olympic motto: faster, higher, stronger. Altius is Becky … The junior high jumper, who hails from the small town of Celina, Texas, north of Dallas, won the Heptagonal Championships, took second at …
Issue: May-June 2008
Ballots, Please
… This spring, Harvard degree holders can vote for new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni …
Issue: May-June 2022
Laura Levis
… The staff of Harvard Magazine mourns the loss of Laura Levis, who contributed significantly to …
Issue: November-December 2016
Harvard Initiates Anti-Bullying Policy
… The Office of the Provost today announced the first University-wide … policies,” said Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Sherri Charleston in the announcement. That these …
Laugh for Your Lungs' Sake
… and stress-induced heart attacks already register with the general public. Now new research suggests that the lungs are vulnerable to the effects of stress as well. “[Poor] lung function is very much a … by cigarettes, an effect even the investigators were surprised to see. That means, says Wright, that doctors can say …
Issue: March-April 2007
Brevia
… ARTS FIRST, finally The annual campus celebration of performance and creativity … and receive his medal on April 28. Find details at https://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/arts. Supreme Court-Bound Having lost …
Issue: March-April 2022
Prize Patter
… “There’s some extraneous material, but he is a flashlight.” A helpful dawdler has just explained to me the presence of a nearly nude man—his unclothed portions painted … even though the award didn’t come as a complete surprise. According to Yang, users on Twitter were predicting …
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, …
Dancing “Makes Us More Alive”
… In primitive cultures throughout the world, dance brought communities together in a common … and gender identity. They taught “our young the meaning of sexuality as they entered adulthood,” he said. “Dancing sanctified our space. It could heighten our sense of being alive by making us one with the very ground we …
Issue: November-December 2011
Zvon Song?
… hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." According to the Moscow Times, the monks of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow are preparing a formal petition to Harvard for the return of the clangorous Lowell House bells. The bells were taken …
Issue: March-April 2003
Unfinished Business
… The conclusion of Drew Faust’s presidency coincides with Michael D. Smith’s announced departure from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) deanship. Faust and Smith, like …
Issue: July-August 2018
Out and About
… As winter is nudged out by the first warm days of spring and the refreshing sight of a … cozy retreats, and festive public occasions that comprise some of the reasons we cherish New England in the …
Issue: March-April 2008
Cambridge 02138
… Early Christianity At the very end of the article ( “The Bits the Bible Left Out,” … followers of Jesus. In contrast, the texts that comprise the New Testament were written by the apostles of Jesus …
Issue: January-February 2019