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You Can Go Home Again—Alas
… “Who wrote The Wizard of Oz? ” she asked me. “Here are your choices: … Abagnale. Frank Baum. Frank Costanza.” I sighed, thinking of my friend in Hong Kong or the postcard I had just …
Juneteenth Is Now a University Holiday
… Harvard will be closed on Juneteenth—the holiday celebrated on June 19 marking the day in 1865 … on Tuesday. “All faculty and staff will have a full day of paid time off,” he wrote. “If you must work that day to support …
Nigerian Women Speak Out
… is a dynamic performance piece inspired by a spectrum of true stories about women across Nigeria. Nigerian … dances, songs, and spoken word in intimate portrayals of struggles—for dignity, independence, and professional/meaningful engagement in African society. Themes both personal and universal are candidly broached in …
Issue: January-February 2018
Harvard Appoints New Endowment President and CEO
… Management Company (HMC) reported endowment returns for the fiscal year ended last June 30, the appointment of its new president and CEO, Stephen Blyth, Ph.D. ’92, was … the unusual nature of a university-owned investment enterprise subject to such disclosure.) Blyth has also been a …
Paradoxical Fables
… In his recent collection, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (Penguin) , the short stories of Ben Loory ’93 often begin with a direct, declarative … and there’s her life on the page. This same element of surprise will likely startle in Loory’s future work: he is now …
Issue: January-February 2013
Memory Retrieved
… Novelist and teacher of writing Nicholas Delbanco ’63 explores a box in the attic in one of nine essays, “In Defense of Quotation,” from his new …
Issue: July-August 2005
Vision and Justice
… Eight months into the Civil War, in December 1861, Frederick Douglass … and reformers are all picture-makers—and this is the secret of their power and of their achievements,” Douglass said in … equity and justice in America.” As part of this enterprise, one of her projects included guest-editing a 2016 …
Issue: July-August 2024
Immortal Hands
… The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute possesses this plaster cast of two clasped hands, a woman's and a man's. The plaster bears traces of a light wash of paint to mimic flesh. Analysts have …
Issue: July-August 2004
Daytripper
… San Francisco, where I grew up, without a car. A couple of commuter trains snake into the suburbs, but once you break past the edge of the urban sprawl you can pretty much count on stepping …
Issue: March-April 2005
Biology in This Century
… Biology will be the technology of this young century. During the past 50 years, biology has developed from a soft science that described macroscopic phenomena into a …
Issue: September-October 2011
Faculty Seeks $100-Million to $130-Million Cost Cuts, Slashes Searches
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) needs to cut its … and nonunionized staff; canceling more than two-thirds of the currently authorized searches for new professorial …
Undergraduate Overseer
… The newly merged offices of dean of Harvard College and dean of undergraduate … his newly consolidated decanal duties had come as a surprise, Gross nonetheless maintained in an interview in late …
Issue: July-August 2003
Soccer and Survival
… As the planet’s greatest sporting extravaganza, the World Cup, kicked off this summer, Nick Gates ’91 was not in South Africa. … to be there. But he’s been busy about 2,000 miles north of Johannesburg, coaching hundreds of shoeless kids on the …
Issue: July-August 2010
Democracy Endangered
… The population of the United States, like that of most established …
Issue: January-February 2024
Sketch Artist
… style isn’t always neatly captured in a single piece of work, but with Colin Jost ’04, his “Mocktails,” a collection of cartoons scribbled on cocktail napkins, are especially … through in his stand-up performances (“I went to Party City the other day, and it was totally dead,” he joked during a …
Issue: January-February 2018