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Caliphate of Terror
… This year, a group of international terrorists announced its intention to affect an election with the goal of replacing a government that favored the Iraq war with one …
Issue: July-August 2004
Harvey Mansfield: The Bradley Prize and a Critique of Harvard
… Kenan professor of government Harvey Mansfield , a scholar of … who has long expressed his criticisms of what he sees as the prevailing culture and beliefs of Harvard and other … of free representative government and private enterprise that has enabled the American nation and, in a larger …
Off the Shelf
… Wellesley for more than 25 years, reintroduces readers to the literature of Homer, Ovid, Virgil, and many others. She keeps our eyes … so it is. Generously illustrated. Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, by P.W. Singer, …
Issue: November-December 2003
The Sorry State of Harvard Football
… an intensive national gridiron recruiting campaign in the late 1930s, and by the end of 1950 the Tigers ranked seventh in the country," writes … The columnist counseled [President James B.] Conant to skim off the top of Harvard's athletic endowment and tell Bingham …
Issue: September-October 2001
Down by the River
… State-of-the-art one-bedroom condominiums within walking distance of … Avenue in Allston, where graduate-student housing will rise in 2003, construction of a 650-car underground garage … the purchase at a planning board meeting the same day, surprised local residents expressed shock and dismay that the …
Issue: March-April 2002
Off the Shelf
… I’ll Drink to That: Beaujolais and the French Peasant Who Made It the World’s Most Popular Wine … thinks he does,” writes the author. After reading this saga of the wine and people of Beaujolais—in particular Georges … and bumper stickers. Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall , by Amy Chua …
Issue: November-December 2007
The Way We Eat Now
… bottled water—came from McDonald's. Spurlock recorded the results on camera for his film Super Size Me, which won … year's Sundance Film Festival. Super Size Me is also a kind of shock/horror movie, as viewers see the 33-year-old … over-responds to the spike in glucose—a more rapid rise than a hunter-gatherer's bloodstream was likely to …
Issue: May-June 2004
An Afternoon of Lilacs at the Arnold Arboretum
… A Friends of Harvard Magazine event was held on Tuesday, May 19, 2005 at the Arnold Arboretum. Peter Del Tredici, Senior Research Scientist, former director of the collections and instructor at the Graduate School of …
A Box of Pox
… Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D. (hon.) 1786, called smallpox the "devouring monster." Today it is the only naturally … from Jenner to Waterhouse and so inscribed, arrived full of quills impregnated with cowpox vaccine matter. Waterhouse … to me what the sun is to the moon…." Portrait courtesy of the Harvard University Portrait Collection, ©President …
Issue: May-June 2003
“A Category of One”
… Edward Gorey ’50 might have hated Gorey: The Secret Lives of Edward Gorey , a new dramaturgical take … poignant darknesses, and unexpected delights as one of Gorey’s own works. But to the extent that an audience …
The Outsiders’ Insider
… Backstage at the Montalban Theater in Los Angeles, Franklin Leonard ’00 … sandwich to the green room. It’s his party, in a manner of speaking, and the table’s been set with beer and wine and … (“combat with weapons,” “$1-10mm [budget],” “twist/surprise ending,” and “female protagonist [diversity]”). Writers …
Issue: July-August 2016
Dementias Linked to Air Pollution
… Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other dementias are linked to air pollution, new research … adding neurological degeneration to the growing list of effects attributable to fine particles . A study of 63 … … 223 … Hospitalizations for neurological disease rise with increases in fine particle pollution. … …
Saving the News—and Democracy
… How has the rise of the Internet and the decline of traditional … affected in the United States. Another trend is the rise of the digital platforms and the degree to which they …
The Moral Limits of Markets
… In introducing the luncheon speaker, William Kirby joked that when Chinese … differences in history and culture, said Sandel, Bass professor of government , both the United States and the People’s …
The New Monopoly
… Market concentration , the economist’s term for how much an industry is dominated by one or a few firms, touches ever more aspects of American life. From the obvious (the Amazons and Walmarts … income going to labor has fallen in tandem with the rise of “superstar” firms: situations where a small number …
Issue: March-April 2019