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… The Talking Ape: How Language Evolved, by Robbins Burling, … $29.95 ). A persuasive, urbane, and gin-clear account of how language came to be, and how it affects the way we … ). This is America: with talent and industry, anyone can rise from messenger boy to tycoon, just as Andrew Carnegie …
Issue: January-February 2006
Flocking Together
… Lila’s Mountain Farm sits in a scenic corner of western Massachusetts, on rolling pastures with sweeping views of the Berkshires. In early February, during lambing season, …
Issue: May-June 2025
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 …
Tastes of the Town Dining Guide
… THE ATRIUM DINING ROOM AT THE INN AT HARVARD, 1201 … dinner every day. Friday and Saturday until 11 p.m. CAFE OF INDIA, 52 A Brattle Street, Cambridge, (617) 661-0683. … 495-5758. Enjoy elegant décor and the eclectic cuisine of chef K.C. O'Hara. A la carte and prix-fixe menus. …
“Little Shards of Dissonance”
… At some point , while preparing for the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Davóne Tines ’09 and … town’s soaring concert hall, its entire back wall made of glass. Out that window they could see people partying on … which builds on gospel idioms. The Clown’s declaration—“Rise from the bottom,/Out of the slime!/Look at the stars …
Issue: September-October 2018
Morning Prayers 2017: "The Arteries of a Just Society"
… The first day of fall classes was damp and overcast. On the lawn in front of Memorial Church, the folding chairs from Tuesday’s …
An Interpretive Artist of Urban Space
… Jesse Shapins helped create Zeega, a software program conceived to create database documentaries, but he is not a programmer. The lecturer in architecture might better be called an … underlying database—a little ocean of expression that can rise up and coalesce into different forms. “Designing a …
Issue: May-June 2012
Widener Library: Youthful at the Core
… The rejuvenation of Widener Library progresses. The Phillips … for use in October, a major new something-to-see. It is one of two nearly identical reading rooms built within the … in general, the library speeded up planned installation of machines that read identification cards at the entrances to …
Issue: January-February 2002
The Chemical Biologists
… Although Stuart L. Schreiber's office number is 223 Conant, one of several buildings in the chemistry complex, only part of his suite is actually … and biology to make way for an interdisciplinary enterprise called chemical biology. One of Schreiber's many …
Issue: March-April 2005
Where We Went Wrong
… More than 60 years ago, just past the midpoint of the twentieth century, Warburg professor of … confused response to the Great Depression; of the rise of fascism in the interwar period (he dismisses the …
Issue: November-December 2022
The Baccalaureate, and a Multitude of Distinct Graduations 2021
… Harvard graduation ceremonies have proliferated. Although the main University event this week is the “Honoring the Harvard Class of 2021” program substituting for the full-dress Morning … celebrations and the Baccalaureate follows. “Proud of My Whole Self”: The First-Generation/Next Gen Celebration …
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 …
Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Debt Deal
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith used his annual report to colleagues for the 2016-2017 academic year, being released today, to … , the fiscal 2019 distribution per unit of endowment would rise a nominal amount, perhaps 1 percent, reflecting the …
Ben Franklin’s Project
… Joyce E. Chaplin, Phillips professor of early American history, is a multitool scholar, working across fields including the history of science, climate, colonialism, and … attempt to address eighteenth-century energy and climate crises. The former concerned the looming exhaustion of native …
Issue: May-June 2025
Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman and Man of the Year
… The Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) presented its 2022 Woman and Man of the Year awards to Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman on … on tour together. During the Pudding’s traditional roast of the honored guest, members touched upon Bateman’s start …