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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 …
Photography in Baldwin’s Era
… James Baldwin’s America,” on display through December 30 at the Sert Gallery, features images taken from the early 1930s … Baldwin’s lifetime, says Daisy Nam, assistant director of the Carpenter Center. Its themes include religion, music, the role of race in America, sexuality, and family life, and …
Issue: November-December 2018
Al Franken: You Can Call Me Senator
… as junior U.S. senator from Minnesota, he voted against the Gulf War. President George H.W. Bush’s reaction: “Who is that chickenshit?” An equal-opportunity offender, Wellstone was the only Democrat to vote against … Norman Ornstein , resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute , a conservative think tank, helped devise …
Issue: March-April 2012
Inventions in Early Modern Europe
… through images from Stradanus’s Nova reperta , a series of engravings representing geographical, navigational, and … to oil painting and printing. For most inventions, the Nova reperta offered a compressed view of each step in the production …
Sports Wrap
… Men's Rowing The heavyweights capped another sterlingseason with an … second and cemented Harvard’s thirtieth Rowe Cup, symbolic of overall heavyweight supremacy, on Lake Quinsigamond. The … but did win the petite final at the Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges (EAWRC) regatta. The Black and …
Issue: July-August 2010
HAA Leader Seeks Global Outreach
… The new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) summarizes the theme of his year-long term in four words: "Participate in …
Issue: September-October 2004
Harvard Endowment Increases 4.3 Percent to $40.9 Billion
… Highlights for fiscal 2019: •The endowment’s value was $40.9 billion as of this past June 30, the end of fiscal year 2019—an … so the absolute dollar sum distributed to them typically rises more than the percentage change in the per-unit …
A Living Political Monument
… In the years immediately following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ’40, LL.D. ’56, a group of the president’s closest advisers and family members …
Issue: September-October 2006
Spirited Celebrations
… Temperatures are dipping, snow is (almost) falling, and the holiday season is just around the corner. There are so … Cheers! Longing to get outside, despite the chill? Trustees of Reservations estates throughout the region come alive … firepits, and catered delicacies. Photograph courtesy of Nashoba Valley Or warm up with a twirl around Kendall …
Issue: November-December 2022
Crimson on Capitol Hill: 115th
… Other Republican victories in November notwithstanding, the tally of Harvard degree-program graduates or matriculants in the … numbered six senators and eight representatives (two of them alumnae); across the aisle were seven senators and …
Issue: January-February 2017
Yesterday's News
… workers begin demolishing Appleton Chapel to make room for the new Memorial Church. 1946 Cambridge celebrates its … for a Boston Symphony Orchestra concert and performances of a pageant, Pillars of Power, in which faculty members, alumni, and …
Issue: July-August 2011
Far-Flung Fellows
… ’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2007-2008 academic year will be Liz Goodwin ’08 and Samuel Bjork ’09, who were selected after an evaluation of writing submitted by 30 student applicants for the position the largest pool of candidates in the program s history. The Fellows, who …
Issue: September-October 2007
Aid Augmented
… To make attending the College more affordable for lower- and middle-income … than $60,000 will no longer have to contribute to the cost of their children’s undergraduate education (the limit had … can now apply any outside scholarships they receive to offset their summer-savings obligation of $2,150; …
Issue: May-June 2006
De Gustibus
… Perhaps the most cheerful restaurant dining room in Cambridge is the … location "somewhere in the Boston area." The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will expunge the pleasure spot; it has … advertising Hasty Pudding theatricals. Gone will be the rooftop garden for an al fresco "foie gras moment" (seared …
American Stories, in Wood
… Fusing the traditional craft of marquetry (wood inlay) with … and black life in Brooklyn—artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor offers hybridized views of American life. Realistic, … Her meticulous control of materials is clear in the 50 works on display in “Alison Elizabeth Taylor: The Sum …
Issue: March-April 2023