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Sexual Violence in India’s Headlines
… In recent years , news coverage of sexual violence in India has increased, but the Indian press’s coverage has serious flaws—including a … backgrounds and to print sensationalistic depictions of rape—according to a Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) paper …
This Old (Red) House
… For most of its 202-year history, the cottage at 98 Winthrop Street has been a private residence. A year ago, Paul Overgaag, owner of the now defunct Giannino in the Charles Hotel courtyard, …
Issue: July-August 2004
Cambridge 02138
… (January-February, page 69), reviewing Michael J. Klarman’s The Framers’ Coup. The limits of the available evidence—about 90 percent of the actual words of the debates at the Convention are …
Issue: March-April 2017
Who Should Drive an Electric Vehicle?
… Is a gas guzzler actually better for the environment than an electric vehicle? Sometimes. Ashley … and to find lithium, they need the high-altitude salt flats of Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. There, beneath turquoise … internal combustion engine. The high emissions buy-in of an EV “isn’t a dealbreaker,” Nunes says, because “an …
Issue: September-October 2022
Long Innings
… a batter. But in cricket, everything else happens faster: the bowler—cricket’s version of a pitcher—gets a running start, and even in recreational … per innings, two innings per game. Scorekeeping, no surprise, is a major effort. Khan, an applied mathematics and …
Issue: July-August 2013
Grossman Combined Medicine and Policy
… The Harvard community, and the Boston healthcare community, lost an energetic leader April 1 with the death of Dr. Jerome Grossman. Grossman—remembered in a Boston … Kennedy School, taught at the Tufts University School of Medicine, and was CEO of New England Medical Center (now …
Latin Flair
… To experience , within a few miles of home, a completely different slice of life through the cuisine of a foreign country, is a wonderful thing. Such …
Issue: March-April 2009
Harvard Portrait: Judith Grant Long
… Grant Long, M.D.S. ’95, Ph.D. ’02, RI ’12, associate professor of urban planning at the Graduate School of Design . The “something else” …
Issue: September-October 2013
Fantastic!
… The recent announcement that Lene Vestergaard Hau had … light to matter, and then back into light, evokes the magic of carrying moonbeams home in a jar. That the general public might harbor doubts about the success of such research is understandable, but Hau says even her …
Issue: July-August 2007
Recruiting for Economic Diversity
… As the class of 2021 approaches Harvard Yard this August — at a … action at Harvard and elsewhere — the admissions office is busy preparing for its next application cycle. … students from families with incomes of $65,000 or less has risen from 15 percent in 2008 to 20 percent today. From 2004 …
Jerusalem Milestone
… The Israel Museum in Jerusalem defied convention in 1996 by … big anomaly,” he says. “In a country that has a huge amount of nationalist sensibility, it was unexpected to bring in an outsider. There was a lot of hesitation.” Snyder did not speak Hebrew. And although he …
Issue: November-December 2010
Chapter & Verse
… Sheila Berg would like a source for a quotation she heard at the time of John Kennedy Jr.'s death that spoke of sand and pebbles on the beach and Truro. Ann Mantell …
Teaching and Learning: Stories and Suggestions
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is bringing a renewed focus … to teaching and learning . Read about those efforts in the March-April issue, then use the comments space below to share your own examples of innovative teaching, effective learning, or suggestions …
Issue: March-April 2011
Scholarly Sale
… The $50-million challenge fund established by the University Development Office in February 2006 to stimulate the endowment of professorships has, through early July, yielded 16 …
Issue: September-October 2007
“One Community, One Harvard”
… Standing alone on a Nantucket beach during a spectacular sunrise, Harvard Alumni Association president John West, M.B.A. ’95, tilted his iPhone camera to share the stretch of golden sand and blue Atlantic Ocean with viewers of his …
Issue: September-October 2020