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A Masterpiece Reconstructed
… Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece , a new book edited by art … I Tatti fellow Machtelt Israëls, details the reconstruction of a "lost" Italian Renaissance altarpiece. Below, view … the main article, " Masterpiece Pieces ." Reconstruction of Sassetta’s Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece, front view. …
Issue: November-December 2009
New from Lewis and Clark
… Two collections assistants at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology were making an inventory of objects in the Oceania storerooms last December when they …
Issue: March-April 2004
Taking Attendance
… At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on November 4, Harry R. Lewis, Gordon McKay professor of computer science, posed a question. He had learned from two colleagues, he said, that students in their spring lecture courses had been photographed without …
Issue: January-February 2015
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
Reexamining History
… Photographer Diana Mara Henry ’69 is focused on preserving the images she has spent more than 40 years capturing and … National Convention; a backpack-toting Andy Warhol. Some of these memorable images appear in her recently released book of her photographs, Women on the Move (Natzweiler Press; …
Issue: September-October 2013
All in a Day: Growing Pains
… In the rear of the Hydrophyte House is a worn wooden bench where visitors may sit and listen to the burbling of a frog-shaped fountain and the erratic hissing of old …
Issue: November-December 2014
Toward Reconciliation
… , Robi Damelin learned that her son David—a reservist in the Israel Defense Forces—had been killed by a Palestinian sniper. One of the first things she said to the soldiers who came to … deliver the news was, “You can’t kill anybody in the name of my child.” On Monday, during a conversation at Harvard …
Chocolatier
… Can the "food of the gods" help us live longer, healthier lives? Like red wine and green tea, the seeds of Theobroma cacao, which are ground to make chocolate, are …
Issue: May-June 2004
Comings and Goings
… University faculty appear around the country to lecture on their specialties and meet with alumni. Here is a list of some of the speakers traveling to local clubs this spring. For …
Issue: May-June 2007
What to Expect
… As the summer solstice approaches on June 20—the sun high, with shadows sharp and short—shadows of a different kind loom over the University and its … coffee shops, the remaining bookstores, and other enterprises will only be amplified. A Harvard Square further …
Cole Porter to Coolio
… They're dancing on the Steinway piano. And on the parquet, … with rhythmic sexual panting. The dance floor is a zoo of gators and ponies, Lacoste and Polo. On the walls are … night and Sunday morning and Harvard is "out." A group of students stumbles from the door of one of the outwardly …
Issue: July-August 2004
A Gut Renovation for U.S. Labor Law
… released today by Clean Slate for Worker Power , a project of Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program. So, the report urges, the nation’s labor laws need to be … explains, is that the United States faces two linked crises—economic and political—and that neither can be …
SEAS Dean Murray Appointed to BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Commission
… his intention to appoint physicist Cherry A. Murray, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, to the seven-member …
Atticus Lish ’93 Wins PEN/Faulkner Award
… Atticus Lish ’93 has been named the winner of the 2015 PEN/Faulkner award, which recognizes works of fiction by American authors. Preparation for the Next …
“May Their Memory Be Preserved”
… On a day with leaves glowing golden outside the clear windows of Memorial Church, more than 200 people gathered inside—in … 11 a.m. on 11/11/2011 to celebrate Veterans Day, 17 Medal of Honor recipients , and the return of the Reserve Officers …