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New England Sanctuaries
… In the January-February issue, Nell Porter Brown explores the range of what New England’s retreat centers have to offer , detailing four centers’ very different environments. …
Issue: January-February 2012
Underhanded Undergraduates
… Their friends began to ask questions long before the … lifestyle" with more than $91,000 stolen from the funds of Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) while Pomey served as business manager and producer of the nation's oldest theatrical organization. On February …
Issue: May-June 2002
Homecomings
… I think the enormity of my decision hit me when the plane flew out of Sydney airport and I watched the famous Opera House, its … from my Jennifer Aniston. I liked bagels. Yet what has surprised me the most during my stint in the States is the …
Issue: January-February 2005
Building Native Nations
… Ethel Branch ’01, M.P.P. - J.D. ’08 grew up in Navajo Nation. … morning: “I was like, damn, I would really like a cold bowl of cereal. And I can’t have it, because I live on the … departments to other kinds of social services” may be “surprised in some cases that tribes really need and want more …
Harvard Explores Slavery Connections Further
… President Lawrence S. Bacow emailed the community on November 21 to announce an “initiative on Harvard and the legacy of slavery,” backed by an initial $5 million in funding and … by Radcliffe Institute dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin , Paul professor of constitutional law and professor of history. This …
Up Three Times
… It’s one of the least understood, and most difficult, events in a track and field meet. Yet the essence of the triple jump is simple: jump three times. The rules, …
Issue: May-June 2006
Comedy, Harvard, and Hollywood
… Rick Meyerowitz, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (reviewed in the November-December 2010 issue), explores the history and legacy of the National Lampoon , founded in 1970 by alumni of the Harvard Lampoon. Previous Harvard Magazine articles …
Issue: November-December 2010
A New Day for Dunster
… Smelling of fresh paint , and with the tags still dangling off the Herman Miller furniture, … has the capacity for air conditioning, should the need arise. The freshened-up Dunster also has some idiosyncratic …
Military Recruiters Get Official Welcome
… military recruiters have been banned from working through the Law School's Office of Career Services because of the armed forces' …
Issue: November-December 2002
Iconoclastic Music Educator
… John Payne ’67 faced a problem. He’d been teaching a lot of private students, who went home to practice and then returned for the next lesson—fine. But a lifetime in … be bad together!” The answer was to start a different kind of music school, the John Payne Music Center (JPMC), now a …
Issue: November-December 2014
Harvard Files Plan for Allston “Innovation” District
… has publicly filed its proposal to develop its “enterprise research campus” (ERC), a non-academic, commercial “innovation” district in Allston just south of Harvard Business School (HBS) and east of the new science and engineering complex . The filing …
People-Powered Journalism
… With 20 years of hindsight, to many the U.S. war in Afghanistan looks tragically ill-conceived. But in the wake of 9/11, critics of the invasion, when they were heard at …
Issue: November-December 2021
Bluffer-in-Chief
… (genial, a golfer) in public memory, a cipher between the feisty Harry Truman and the glamorous John F. Kennedy. Focusing on the ultimate issue—the threat of nuclear war— Evan Thomas ’73 finds in Ike tactical … who played as much as possible, the game was a relaxing way of doing what he did all day: reading minds, weighing …
Issue: November-December 2012
Cryptic Puzzle: “40th Anniversary”
… Download the Puzzle Download the Hints Download the Solution "40th … VA Richard Letourneau – Bonita Springs, FL Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico Daniel J. Milton – … – Farmington Hills, MI … Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52 … January-February 2011 …
Paul Cabot
… ROTC rifle back from his dorm's open window and surveyed the damage. Students had been holding a dance in the Yard. … out for them." It was 1918, a warm May evening at the end of his freshman year, the night before he was to go on … it was the war or the whiskey, Cabot thought nothing of shooting into a dance. "I let go another round. [The …
Issue: January-February 2003