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Raising the Ante
… In the wake of Harvard’s December announcement, a host of other institutions—Haverford, Penn, Pomona, and … he said, the distribution for the 2008-2009 year would rise 37 percent, to $1.15 billion, from $843 million in the …
Issue: March-April 2008
Point of No Return
… Soon after the Harvard community was upended and scattered around the … My roommates, Sunday and Catie, and I would sip from mugs of herbal teas on those cold Cambridge nights and snuggle … or at least tame my overzealous drive to work. Catie and I often had long, philosophical discussions about the meaning …
Issue: July-August 2020
The China Project
… China will surpass the United States in annual emissions of CO 2 within a … closer to 5 percent, but his analysis suggests that it will rise to 15 percent by 2030 if nothing is done. "The Chinese …
Issue: November-December 2002
Off the Shelf
… The Idea of Justice, by Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor (Harvard, $29.95). The Nobel Laureate explores … obtained the Pentagon Papers. Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines, and Wired Markets, by David J. Leinweber, Ph.D. …
Issue: November-December 2009
Harvard, Yale Students Delay Second Half of The Game
… The marching bands had just completed their halftime performances at the 2019 iteration of The Game when the real show began. Somewhere between … the protest, with about a dozen fluorescent-vested police officers flanking the students, the Bulldogs made their way …
Factory Fans
… The rich industrial history of New England is part of our collective national experience, but rarely grabs our … had been primarily a small-scale domestic activity, but now machines could transform bales of cotton into finished yarn. …
Issue: September-October 2010
Western Civ.
… The memorial minute on the life of the late Loeb professor of classical art and …
Issue: January-February 2025
Nobelists of Note
… Five alumni—two of them former faculty members—and the recipient of an honorary doctorate were among those to whom Nobel …
Three Stonecutters: On the Future of Business Education
… As part of its centennial celebration, Harvard Business School (HBS) addressed the future training of business leaders during morning … of the last few weeks. The crisis we confront has not arisen from any widespread breakdown in individual ethics, …
Audio: The Class of ’66 Remembers
… things as undergraduates, but a close connection with each other wasn’t one of them. Exchanging stories about what it was like to handle … God for reunions. They’ve been my main means of getting to know my classmates as individual human …
A New Face of American Evangelicalism
… Here's how Walter Kim, Ph.D. ’07, tells the short version of his parents’ migration. After the … of the NAE, led the church from 1939 to 1969, aiding the rise of global evangelical leader Billy Graham, who in many …
Issue: July-August 2023
Ryan Reynolds Is Man of the Year
… Hasty Pudding Theatricals has named actor and producer Ryan Reynolds its 2017 Man of the Year. Reynolds also received a 2017 Golden Globe nomination for playing the title character of the superhero film Deadpool, and in 2011 was chosen by …
Glimpses of Senior Life
… Roger Fu In the fall of his sophomore year, Roger Fu mistakenly walked … where, Fu says, the Radcliffe Quad experiment was reprised on a much larger scale with the earth's own seismic …
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Issue: May-June 2009
Gun Laws and the Science of Harm
… In the wake of the tragic killings of more than two dozen people, mostly …
The Art of Juxtapositions
… 1980 as her own rebellious creation, Mlle Bourgeoise Noire. Thewhip-wieldingbeauty queen, gowned in white dinner gloves, … artist and writer is still mining the timely themes of racial identity, cultural legacies, and what it means to … November 17 at the Harvard Art Museums.) The Carpenter show offers selections from five bodies of work (dating from 1980 …
Issue: November-December 2015