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The Active Life
… Doris, played tennis almost every day for 50 years. Now in their 80s, they still meet weekly with a coach, albeit “He does a lot of running,” Robert reports, “and we hit a lot of balls.” … chi, Pilates, and “aquarobics.” The fitness center features machines with air-compression, push-button operations (no …
Issue: November-December 2005
The Humanities, Digitized
… “ If you feel queasy , I can turn this off,” offers Peter Der Manuelian . At the flight controls of a small aircraft, the King professor … media and networked communication have changed the way crises unfold in a community. “When you have real-time …
Issue: May-June 2012
The Work of the Whole Life
… Over the years , I have often been asked how many students attend … our schools. Their share in our community might surprise you: in any given year, Harvard educates approximately …
Issue: May-June 2017
Marion Cotillard Honored as Woman of the Year
… to striped tights, glitter make-up, and high heels, members of Hasty Pudding Theatricals accompanied Marion Cotillard in a parade through … nation’s oldest undergraduate drama troupe as their “Woman of the Year.” Cotillard waved and smiled at the boisterous …
“People Were Making Bricks Out of Straw”
… “We have to see our own power.” That was the core message from civil rights lawyer and 2022 Radcliffe … remarks were intended to inspire, but also to warn: “One of the reasons that we're in the situation that we're in,” … ’92, J.D. ’96. The president and director-counsel emerita of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF)—an …
The World’s Costliest Health Care
… L ONG BEFORE the presidential primaries, or a paralyzing pandemic, … by the national elections, that mattered to the future of the country—and that would probably be addressed … terms of health value received for dollars spent, may surprise you. It has certainly proven resistant to political …
Issue: May-June 2020
The Power of Touch
… Metaphors of touch infiltrate our language. When something goes … smooth sailing ; an uncouth person is coarse . We have a soft spot for someone we love; the opposite is being hard-hearted . In fact, it is …
Issue: November-December 2010
The Privacy of the Classroom
… How private is a Harvard classroom—the space protected for free exchanges of ideas between teacher and student-learners? That issue … organization will operate with an advisory committee comprised of faculty members, and that, for each …
The Power of Torture
… Nowhere in the pages of the Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches), a …
Issue: March-April 2010
Jane Rosenzweig
… In 2022, Jane Rosenzweig published an op-ed in the Boston Globe, “What We Lose When Machines Do the Writing”—the first of several she’s produced about artificial intelligence …
Issue: January-February 2025
The Affront of Relegation
… In his remarks to the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on June … L. Rudenstine spoke about the moral concerns--and example--of the Commencement afternoon guest speakers, Seamus …
Decoding the Deep
… or a spitting log as it burns, end in a crescendo of sound resembling a rapidly spinning cog rattle, followed … final extra click. “Dive,” one sperm whale is saying to another. This is the first word in the language of sperm whales that humans have learned. These creatures, …
Issue: July-August 2024
The Risks of Homeschooling
… A rapidly increasing number of American families are opting out of sending their children to school, choosing instead to educate them …
Issue: May-June 2020
A New Portrait of “Jackie”
… It might be impossible to make original art about the Kennedys. A writer could be intimidated by the speculative accounts of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination as penned by … may feel compelled to reenact the famous photographs of November 22, 1963, in living color: the First Lady in …
“Getting Out of the Way of the Work”
… There’s a line out the Cooper Gallery’s doors, wrapping back … it inside, they make it worth our while: I sample some kind of fritter that seems to involve crab and wasabi, and a spear of asparagus wrapped in bacon. “How old are you?” the …