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Hillary Clinton Receives Radcliffe Medal
… deter some 2,000 Radcliffe alumnae and affiliates from gathering for today’s presentation of the 2018 Radcliffe Medal to Hillary Rodman Clinton. The … on society.” In introductory remarks, Lizabeth Cohen, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, confessed: …
Danielle Allen Appointed University Professor
… Political theorist Danielle Allen, who came to Harvard just last year—she is professor of government, professor of education, and director of the …
Tim Mayotte Joins Harvard Tennis
… This February, Tim Mayotte joined the staff of the Harvard men’s tennis team as a volunteer … associate head coach Andrew Rueb '95 to improve the level of play of the Crimson squad, recently ranked twenty-second …
Brevia
… to press, Ketanji Brown Jackson ’92, J.D. ’96, was awaiting the U.S. Senate vote on confirming her appointment to the … Supreme Court, succeeding Stephen G. Breyer, LL. B. ’64 (profiled in “A Workable Democracy,” March-April 2017, page … clerked in 1999-2000. Jackson is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. More parochially, she is an …
Issue: May-June 2022
A Conversation with Rahul Mehrotra
… My article (“ Designs for a New India ”) explores some of your projects that are open to the public, but you also design private homes. Tell me about some of your favorite residential projects. A lot of the houses …
A Milestone for Asian-American Alumni
… At the Asian AmeriCAn alumni summit—the group's first-ever … beef—fitting considering the audience, but also one of the most popular dishes in the College dining halls today, and thus perhaps a subtle sign of the Asian-American community's growing influence within …
When Harvard Should—and Shouldn’t—Speak
… Harvard and its leaders should not issue official statements about public matters that do not directly affect the institution’s core function of research, teaching, and learning. That was the conclusion …
Adios, Early Admissions
… has ended its early admissions deadline. Beginning in the fall of 2007, students applying for admission to the class of 2012 will face a single January 1 deadline, with …
Issue: November-December 2006
An Oxford Efflorescence
… sparks fly. How this came to pass at one such moment is the subject of The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, …
Issue: May-June 2015
Picasso at War
… a woman cradling a child, her neck twisted downward toward the little figure, whose arm reaches up to cup her cheek. Beside them he drew studies of the woman’s hand, trying to capture the way her fingers … male figure on the other side, chest and legs devoid of detailing: a nude self-portrait. The two sides of the …
A Novel Take on Eternal Life
… to be immortal. In her new novel, Eternal Life, this is the problem facing Rachel, a 2,000-year-old Jewish woman who … at the Second Holy Temple: in exchange for the survival of her sick son, she gives up her own death. “What reasons … being alive?” Rachel asks herself over the centuries. None of them—to love God; to serve others; to feel joy, to build …
Issue: January-February 2018
Music and Medicine
… maybe become a surgeon. “I was like, I’m going to be in the library 24/7; this is my calling,” he says. “I don’t … jazz band. No, Miller said. Definitely not. A couple of days later, he woke up to an email confirming that he was … classmate he’d met at Annenberg—Emil Massad ’25, now one of Miller’s close friends—had signed him up without asking. …
Issue: March-April 2025
Short, Stubby, Sexy
… The little green car nosed its way into the concrete lobby of the Graduate School of Design in late January. At Harvard for a two-month visit …
Issue: May-June 2002
Katrina's Ripples
… In response to Hurricane Katrina, Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education, and … on their experience in natural disasters, wars, refugee crises, and other catastrophes around the world to stimulate …
Issue: November-December 2005
Bill Gates on “Creative Capitalism”
… As part of the Harvard Business School (HBS) centennial celebration … "Financial Crisis: Confidence—and Some Cautions" ), Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates (’77, LL.D. ’07; access his Commencement address ), now co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, joined in an armchair …