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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 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 …
A Hundred Years of Music
… When the Harvard University Band parades through Harvard Square … the band’s hundredth anniversary, the usual contingent of 60 student musicians will likely swell to more than six … Today the University Band is an extensive musical enterprise consisting of a football band, a concert band, a wind …
Off the Shelf
… In the Blood, by Charles Barber ’85 (Grand Central, $29). … Barber, a riveting storyteller, recounts the invention of a revolutionary way to prevent traumatic death from … or even neglect from its Habsburg rulers in Vienna,” giving rise to a “restless underlying resentment and a skittering …
Issue: July-August 2023
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. …
In Defense of Liberal Arts
… I didn’t fully realize the value of a liberal arts education until I was removed … and energy policy. “I think I would have been very surprised in freshman year of college if you told me that that’s …
Issue: September-October 2023
An Expansive Vision for the Future of Teaching and Learning
… The Harvard Future of Teaching and Learning Task Force … from the pandemic pivot to remote instruction in the spring of 2020 and through the following academic year, released … activities. As the task force noted, many of the new enterprises and instructional channels focusing on online learning …
The Aging Enigma
… Is aging necessary? Are the wrinkles and gray hair, weakening muscles, … reduced cardiovascular function, and increased risk of cancer that afflict organisms toward the end of their … that SIRT1 (the mammalian equivalent of Sir2 in yeast) rises when levels of these hormones fall, as they would in a …
Issue: September-October 2005
Doug Elmendorf and Karen Dynan: How Much Can the Federal Budget and the Deficit Continue to Grow?
… Even before the coronavirus shifted the U.S. economy into low gear , … massive stimulus in response, federal debt as a percentage of GDP was as high as it had been since the years following … boomers have started to retire, and healthcare costs have risen faster than our economic growth for many years. And …
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 …
Paradise in the Kingdom of Plants
… After I spent a month in hectic and dusty Beijing, Kunming—“the city of Eternal Spring,” the capital of Yunnan province—came as a breath of fresh air, literally …
Ball of Mystery
… The United Fruit Company planted huge quantities of bananas … the underbrush numerous stone balls. The original purpose of the balls--and more than 300 of them exist, from a few …
Vita: Alexandre Dumas
… He was the son of a black slave and a renegade French aristocrat, … Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) when the island was the center of the world sugar trade. The boy’s uncle was a rich, … His son, the Dumas we all know, echoed the dizzying rise and tragic downfall of his own father in The Three …
Issue: November-December 2012
The Endowment: Up, and Upheaval
… year for investors generally was a very strong year for the University. Harvard Management Company (HMC), concluding … leadership, reported on August 21 that the endowment had risen to $34.9 billion during the fiscal year ended June 30 from $29.2 billion 12 months earlier, an increase of $5.7 billion. That 19.5 percent growth is the product of …
The Price of Healthy Eating
… Anecdotally , the cost of a healthy diet—rich in fruits, vegetables, fish, … nuts, for example—has been assumed to be higher than that of a diet consisting of unhealthy processed foods. Now …
Issue: March-April 2014