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“Little Shards of Dissonance”
… At some point , while preparing for the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Davóne Tines ’09 and … town’s soaring concert hall, its entire back wall made of glass. Out that window they could see people partying on … which builds on gospel idioms. The Clown’s declaration—“Rise from the bottom,/Out of the slime!/Look at the stars …
Issue: September-October 2018
Tom Hanks: Truth, Justice, and the American Way
… As prepared for delivery. Thank you. On behalf of all of us who have studied for two years at Chabot … State University, Sacramento, and forty-five years at the School of Hard Knocks, earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree … of mighty rivers, if such a thing should be done and make machines that bend steel as easily as using our bare hands. …
An Interpretive Artist of Urban Space
… Jesse Shapins helped create Zeega, a software program conceived to create database documentaries, but he is not a programmer. The lecturer in architecture might better be called an … underlying database—a little ocean of expression that can rise up and coalesce into different forms. “Designing a …
Issue: May-June 2012
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 China Trade
… The earliest United States trade with China, it may be hard … such goods as tea and textiles, and amounted to tens of thousands of dollars, rather than trillions. The … outward today. Unlike the great European joint-stock enterprises—the Dutch East India Company and its British …
Issue: September-October 2012
The Politics of Paying for HIV Care
… As one of four institutions chosen in 2004 to administer the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), … Harvard oversees patient care at 10 hospitals and a network of clinics, and operates a drug distribution network, in …
Issue: September-October 2010
The End of the “Course”?
… On April Fools’ Day in 2009, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) announced the end of printed versions of its iconic Courses of Instruction …
Where We Went Wrong
… More than 60 years ago, just past the midpoint of the twentieth century, Warburg professor of … confused response to the Great Depression; of the rise of fascism in the interwar period (he dismisses the …
Issue: November-December 2022
“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 …
“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 …
From the Archives: The Market-Model University
… More than two decades ago—before the Great Recession caused states to slash funding for … before the gold rush into social media lured a generation of students into computer science and engineering; before … working alone. Ethical debates in medicine, environmental crises, legal issues involving the history of race relations: …
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
The Half-life of Robin and Kim
… policemen, and mailmen sound like cultural relics from the 1950s next to the no-nonsense firefighters, police officers, and mail carriers who people our streets today. … first names, which rank among the most important markers of gender? Have androgynous names multiplied along with …
Morning Prayers 2017: "The Arteries of a Just Society"
… The first day of fall classes was damp and overcast. On the lawn in front of Memorial Church, the folding chairs from Tuesday’s …
Balkanizing the Web?
… Originally, the World Wide Web was envisioned as exactly that: a global vehicle for the unimpeded flow of information, without barriers, dams, blocks, filters, or … (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) data when the machines are idle. That way, he says, "computers all around …
Issue: November-December 2002