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Endowment Managers’ Pay Reported
… WITH THE FILING in mid May of its tax return for nonprofit organizations (Form 990) for 2010 (covering the tax year from July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011— Harvard’s …
Yesterday’s News
… 1932 The Harvard Hall bell is moved to the top of the just-completed spire of Memorial Church. “Nearly everyone who enters or leaves …
Issue: July-August 2012
Brevia
… Public Health Professor Paul Farmer, M.D. ’88, Ph.D. ’90, has been appointed the first Kolokotrones University Professor. He had been Presley professor and chair of the …
Issue: March-April 2011
Yesterday's News
… 1929 The Student Council criticizes the administration’s plan to erect one of the newly endowed Houses east of DeWolfe Street, arguing that the future Dunster House …
Issue: January-February 2009
Mayr at Harvard
… In 1953, a decade after the triumph of his Systematics and the Origin of Species, Harvard attracted Mayr--by then the world's …
Issue: March-April 2002
From Lonely to Alone
… Until the night before I left for winter break my first year, … sylvan bliss. But that night, Harvard gave up another side of itself: its loneliness. I could not sleep. The day had … that I could not bring head to bed. In fact, a number of us were sleepless, enjoying the few hours of time spent …
A Student in Beijing
… Thousands of bicycles. Ubiquitous laundry lines. Hard beds and squat … slips of paper with red stamps--all assaulted by dust from the Gobi desert and a coal-induced haze. Many Western … (If you take more than 32 showers a semester, the cost rises to 4 renmenbi, so most students take only one or two …
Outside the Solar Cocoon
… Could a massive cloud of cold, interstellar gas have pushed the sun’s protective heliosphere away from Earth two to … left exposed to cosmic dust and radiation after the cocoon of solar wind enclosing the solar system was deformed. When …
In Watertown, a New Frontier?
… The geographic center of the University's ambitions for … growth over the next several decades lies to the south of Harvard Square, in the 100 acres of land purchased so far … such as the current roster of consulting and Internet enterprises. Driscoll was quoted as responding that "long term …
Cambridge 02138
… Art, Science, Culture, Economics Thanks for the wonderful essay by E.O. Wilson ( “On the Origins of the Arts” ) on Chauvet Cave. Its 30,000-year-old … are conservative rather than liberal. But I was surprised by the crude vitriol of the “Fie on Al Franken” …
Issue: July-August 2012
University Names Goldman Sachs Executive to New VP Post
… The University this morning announced the creation of a new position, executive vice president, and the name of the person appointed to the job: Edward C. Forst ’82, …
Money Rules
… The legend on the engraving Gellt Zeucht die Weltt, below, sums up the message of the exhibition Coin and Conscience: Popular Views of Money, Credit and Speculation at the Harvard Business …
Issue: May-June 2006
Extreme-weather Evolution
… The green anole lizard , a spectacularly bright reptile … and in southeastern states. But during the extreme winter of 2013-2014 (resulting from a southward shift in the polar … Campbell-Staton, Ph.D. ’15, and coauthors Jonathan Losos, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, and Scott …
Summers Leaving White House, Returning to Harvard
… The White House announced tonight that former Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers, director of the National Economic Council, would step down from his position and return to the University at the end of the year, as has been rumored. Summers, who served as …
Bubbles and "Champagne"
… For a woman once accused of lacking the requisite "math gene," Julie Fouquet '80 has done pretty … highway" has not yet been fully realized. Problems arise when the light signals get backed up at the ca-bles' …
Issue: January-February 2002