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Art Thieves Identified
… In a law enforcement breakthrough, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced on March 18 … to their recovery in good condition. The Gardner’s head of security, Anthony Amore, M.P.A. ’00, was the subject of …
Tony Kushner Talks “Lincoln”
… When Tony Kushner started writing the screenplay for Lincoln five years ago, the film hardly had the look of a box-office hit. No studio had made a movie about the president …
All In Her Head
… to execute a daunting front three-and-a-half tuck. One of the country’s best collegiate divers from the three-meter … the little things. As she finishes her hurdle to the front of the board, she points her arms straight up—mindful of her …
Issue: July-August 2020
Seeking a Flag-Bearer!
… For more than 100 years, the Harvard College graduate who had attended the most … carried to The Game a small red silk pennant as a talisman of luck. The Little Red Flag was waved by nine men from … Red Flag, which did not incorporate the original premise of simply having seen the most H-Y games. In 2010, Spencer …
Issue: March-April 2020
When Harvard Becomes “Ha Fu”
… Whenever I see throngs of Chinese tourists jostling to take pictures with the John Harvard statue, I am reminded of the Buddhist temples in China that I sometimes visited as …
Harvard Announces Carrie Moore as New Women’s Basketball Coach
… The last time the women’s basketball team took the court, … the Ivy League tournament semifinals. When the team walked off the Lavietes Pavilion floor last month, junior guard … Harvard announced Carrie Moore as the new Friends Coach of Women’s Basketball. Moore comes to Harvard from Michigan, …
Saluting the 2024 Centennial Medalists
… The Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Racing Past Antarctica
… Three thousand have climbed Mount Everest; there’ve been about 500 astronauts; but fewer than 50 have … around the world. Rich Wilson ’72, M.B.A. ’82, is one of them. In 121 days spanning late 2008 and early 2009, … his autograph at the Charles de Gaulle Airport—a real surprise, for, as he explains, “when I’m at home in Marblehead, …
Issue: September-October 2013
La Vida at Harvard
… This April, the inaugural issue of La Vida Guide to Harvard highlighted … the College's thriving Latino community. In the wake of the popular Black Guide to Harvard, which came out last …
Issue: July-August 2004
Attacking Asthma
… In William Golding's Lord of the Flies , the Cassandra-like character called Piggy has … "It was the sound of my own wheezing." Gannon was surprised and somewhat relieved to find out that he was …
S. Allen Counter Has Died
… S. Allen Counter has died after a brief illness. Counter was the inaugural and longtime director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations , and was a part-time professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. His speech …
Why Some Citizens Reject Science
… For many americans, the wave of disinformation and defiance of medical authority that arrived with the coronavirus was …
Issue: September-October 2021
Harvard President Drew Faust to Step Down in 2018
… Drew Gilpin Faust, who assumed office as Harvard’s twenty-eighth president on July 1, 2007 … , announced today that she would conclude her service at the end of the next academic year, June 30, 2018. Her … appropriate to a complex, multibillion-dollar enterprise operating in the twenty-first century. The announcement …
Harvard to Applicants: Chill!
… How often does the admissions staff of an elite university advise prospective applicants that … one's children "to vault even higher hurdles." No surprise, "Professionals in their thirties and …
Reckoning with Repair
… Lawrence Bacow announced an initiative to explore the legacy of slavery at Harvard , three members of the faculty committee overseeing that effort sat down on …