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“Something Is Very Broken”
… Telling the broccoli story, even now, makes Usha Thakrar burn. It … the fresh produce rolled into Stonefield Farm, headquarters of the Boston Area Gleaners, in exurban Acton. As executive director of the food rescue organization, Thakrar, M.P.P. ’95, …
Issue: May-June 2023
Brevia
… A Grand Finale Jameson Marvin , formally director of choral activities at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges since 1978, retires at the end of this academic year. Familiar to freshmen from their first …
Issue: July-August 2010
Inhaling Distress
… After 40 years of scientific and news reports on tobacco's hazards, smoking … asserts that mentally ill smokers account for nearly half the tobacco market in the United States: 44.3 percent of all … with no history of mental illness. But that percentage rises with the number of psychiatric problems, reaching 30 …
Connecting with China
… China disorients the visitor. The scale and bustle of its cities—propelled by … Secret close the curtains. Perhaps it should not surprise that such contrasts, arising within a generation of the …
Issue: May-June 2008
Dename Winthrop?
… In November 2023 , a group of students spoke at the Institute of Politics (IOP) about their campaign to dename Winthrop …
Laugh Lines
… In the best unscripted moment of the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises, chapter president Ann Blair, Lea professor of history, inadvertently proceeded directly from …
Issue: July-August 2010
Cooper Gallery Lights Up Mount Auburn Street
… The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art glows at night—a lantern of lit cedar against the dense red brick of Mount Auburn …
Rogoff Honored for Fostering Financial Security
… The TIAA-CREF Institute has presented its 2010 Samuelson … Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security to Cabot professor of public policy and professor of economics Kenneth … and complex balance sheets of older adults, who will comprise a growing percentage of the population in the coming …
Martin Nowak Sanctioned for Jeffrey Epstein Involvement
… members, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in the departments of mathematics and organismic and evolutionary biology, and the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Claudine Gay announced …
A Surfing Author’s Children’s Book
… a surfing injury. She had stayed out too long on a wave at the beach near her house—riding it in, holding on to the … as she could. “And then the wave starts to break in front of me,” she says, “so I start to hop off the board but it got sucked up the wave face.” The …
Issue: July-August 2021
Kennedy School’s Campus Makeover
… The Harvard Kennedy School ’s (HKS) light and airy new … put it, “When we came to your campus, we found a group of buildings that had become outdated — I’m being charitable—and that had been built in a series of campaigns, leaving the school with a disjointed …
Fraternal Forechecking
… unanimity has some impressive virtues, too. Consider the brothers Biega—Alex ’10, Michael ’11, and Danny ’13—of Harvard’s ice hockey team. All hail from Montreal, … Canada, and have been playing sports together most of their lives: ice hockey, soccer, and rowing, for example, …
Issue: January-February 2010
Judith Palfrey
… On a ward at children’s hospital, the head of the division of general pediatrics is worrying about several cases of …
Yesterday’s News
… 1922 Professional waiters will be employed this year in the dining-room of the Harvard Union. For the past three years that work has …
Issue: September-October 2012
Yesterday's News
… 1911 Freshman Lionel de Jersey Harvard becomes the first relative of John Harvard to register in the College. 1926 A $10,000 … for Street Traffic Research, headquartered on the top floor of Widener Library. Certain law students receive a letter …
Issue: September-October 2011