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A NOOK for My Book?
… One of my older relatives has an Amazon Kindle. He also has an iPad. When I asked him why on earth he would need two of these gadgets—one, an e-book reader; the other a …
Toward Reconciliation
… , Robi Damelin learned that her son David—a reservist in the Israel Defense Forces—had been killed by a Palestinian sniper. One of the first things she said to the soldiers who came to … deliver the news was, “You can’t kill anybody in the name of my child.” On Monday, during a conversation at Harvard …
Grad Students Call on Harvard to Remain Neutral in Union Bid
… Hundreds of graduate students gathered at the Science Center plaza for a “union block party” … form a labor union. The demonstration culminated a year of vocal activism for student unionization at the Graduate …
Hypnosis Heals
… Long considered by man y the stock in trade of charlatans, hypnosis in fact can relieve the anxieties of patients in the midst of difficult treatment or about to …
Issue: November-December 2003
Young Audubon
… Early Drawings , Harvard University Press. ©2008 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. A belted … become the internationally celebrated John James Audubon of The Birds of America overnight. Indeed, his early life …
Issue: September-October 2008
Crimson in Congress, II
… Our list of Harvard matriculants in the 112th Congress (January-February, page 60) accidentally … , J.D. ’94, a new Republican representative from Kansas. Then on February 8, Jane Harman, J.D. ’69, D-Calif., the …
Issue: March-April 2011
Break Every Chain
… Most American schoolchildren learn about one Southern bus ride—on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, … and would give him the seat in two blocks when she got off. Unprompted, the man punched Garner in the face twice, … legal culture.” This rich history of black civil suits surprised Eatmon’s mentors. “In many people’s minds, [the Jim …
Issue: January-February 2024
Brevia
… Courtesy of Harvard Business School Ratan Tata B-School Building Boomlet Although other University construction in Allston has been suspended, … weakness,” and making a business of credit was “an enterprise suited only to the greedy and predatory.” Among the …
Issue: January-February 2011
Raising Her Voice
… For many years, Reid Parsons ’15 didn’t think of her voice as something to be trained. It was always just there, a natural part of growing up with her musical family in Vermont’s Mad River …
Issue: January-February 2023
A (Protein) Social Network
… Just about everything the body does depends on the interactions of proteins—the molecules encoded by genes that serve as the primary workers in cells. Without thousands of coordinating proteins, cells wouldn’t function properly; …
Issue: May-June 2012
Missing Man
… William R. Crout, S.T.B. '58, A.M. '69, founder and curator of Harvard's Paul Tillich Lectures, writes as follows: "The article about Enterprising Women, the exhibition … on the display as Lydia Pinkham Gove, granddaughter of the founder and 'the First Woman to fly across the United …
Issue: May-June 2003
Installation: A Summers Day
… as Harvard's twenty-seventh president on October 12. The occasion had many of the trappings of a Commencement with half the … And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass …
Issue: November-December 2001
Cambridge 02138
… A Note to Our Readers This issue of your magazine was laid out on March 16—the day after undergraduates able to leave by the College’s … and cover important biomedical developments as they arise. We ask for your understanding if we encounter glitches …
Issue: May-June 2020
Football: Harvard 34, Penn 24
… It was, as pigskin pundits like to say, gut-check time. The light was dying and the Harvard football team was being … his final home game after 23 seasons. In the last minutes of the third quarter the Crimson was trailing 24-17 and its visions of an Ivy title, to say nothing of a perfect season, were …
Stanley Cup’s Crimson Connections
… The Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League celebrated on the ice in … Canada, on June 15 when they won the seventh game of the finals over the Vancouver Canucks and so captured ice …