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History Quantified
… is to sell it short, say Jared Diamond ’58 and Florence professor of government James A. Robinson. In Natural Experiments of History (Harvard University Press), a new book they coedited, Diamond, a geography professor at UCLA, and …
Issue: May-June 2010
Tea Party Passions
… The Tea Party is a marvel of modern American politics. What … home loans quickly built into a movement that altered the 2010 congressional elections and is now shaping the 2012 … field. In a new book, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (Oxford University Press), Thomas …
Issue: January-February 2012
An Unconstrained Curriculum
… The College curriculum of the future has begun to come into focus, as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this autumn started to discuss …
Issue: January-February 2006
Real Estate by Design
… Real estate, as the saying goes, is about location, location, location. But … it is also about timing. By one estimate, nearly one-sixth of U.S. commercial office space was vacant this past summer: a greater share …
Issue: November-December 2023
Harvard’s Slave Legacy
… “People have this image of Harvard University being an ivory tower, as if it’s separated from the world,” observes Warren professor of American history and professor of African and …
Talented Eccentrics
… to create works that were both useful and beautiful—the two virtues went together. In 1984, Steven Levy’s book Hackers thrillingly documented this heroic age of computing. The last of the true hackers, in Levy’s term, is Richard Stallman …
Issue: March-April 2007
Elizabeth Warren to Announce U.S. Senate Run
… Elizabeth Warren will announce Wednesday that she is officially entering the race for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator, to … Massachusetts, the Boston Globe reports. The Gottlieb professor of law chaired the congressional oversight panel …
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
“Disappointing” Endowment Returns-and a Protracted Restructuring
… is disappointing and not where it needs to be.” Although the positive return (after investment expenses) reverses the … Taking into account the investment return, the distribution of funds for the University’s operating budget, and gifts … have challenged HMC for years….” Outsiders may be surprised by the scope of the resulting changes. In a …
Issue: November-December 2017
A Syncopated Life
… The Baccalaureate ceremony is both a blessing and a farewell … for the graduating class. This year, it was also a farewell of sorts to the Reverend Peter J. Gomes, late Plummer … masterful challenging of convention, the element of surprise that makes a punchline funny…the daring application of …
Ladders, Squirrels, and Reproductive Rights
… There are many things about the “real world” that no one … to further my English studies at Oxford. Having spent more of my time in college in dark theaters than in libraries … at its loss. McCullough told me she has always been surprised at the sterility with which the American left …
Scenes from a Tempestuous Spring
… Harvard’s spring of 1969, covered at length in this magazine then and recently, was marked by some of the most momentous, … student activists protesting the Vietnam War and other crises in American society occupied University Hall, and …
Football: Harvard 49, Princeton 7
… On Saturday at halftime of the game between Harvard and Princeton, the Tigers honored … their unbeaten 1964 Ivy League championship team. The sight of the hearty-looking septuagenarians parading on Powers …
Well Done
… The Harvard Alumni Association Awards were established in … were to be honored on October 16 during the HAA board of directors’ annual fall meeting in Cambridge. Highlights of their many contributions are given below. Peter Bynoe …
Issue: November-December 2008
Picasso Reinterpreted
… possibly be said about Les Demoiselles d’Avignon , one of the most thoroughly analyzed works of art, ever. But Suzanne Preston Blier, Clowes professor of …
Issue: July-August 2019