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Physician Poet
… David Moolten ’82, M.D., wakes up early in the morning—“usually between four and five,” he says. But … gets up so that he can write. “For me, that’s the best part of the day,” he explains. Why would the hours before … is also a poet, and his work has attracted the attention of prominent writers like David Ferry and Virgil Suárez. He …
Issue: September-October 2010
Harvard Basketball's Sibling Stars
… outside Lavietes Pavilion, bobbing to music and smiling as their friends played cornhole and noshed on pizza. With … career at Southwest Texas State and a stint playing professionally in Argentina. After retiring, he frequently … Mason, quarterback and wide receiver. Photograph courtesy of the Forbes family The siblings were also relentlessly …
Extracurriculars
… A full slate of activities can be found throughout the University this season, ranging from performances of children's theater and French baroque dance music, to …
Issue: March-April 2005
Cambridge 02138
… The Lure of Coins “Picking Harvard’s Pocket” by Christopher … Emerson is the author of Doo-dah!: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture. Frost on a Blustery Day … Duncan M. Porter, Ph.D. ’67 Blacksburg, Va. An Enterprise Requiring New Clothes Caille millner’s column “Fashion …
Russia Case Progresses
… In late June, Judge Douglas P. Woodlock of the U.S. District Court in Boston issued a summary judgment … Shleifer in Cambridge)—had invested in Russian enterprises through their wives (see " Brevia ," September-October …
Issue: September-October 2004
A Clear Vision
… As the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), Paul J. Finnegan ’75, … it. In the meantime, we’re lucky to have the guiding hand of Derek Bok, an experienced president.” (Bok, who headed …
Issue: September-October 2006
Down and Out in Paris and Boston
… Outgoing North Carolina senator John Edwards wasn't the first person to notice the Second America, which he … and many Americans in the first country are getting weary of subsidizing and explaining away the deepening failure of the second." If there are two Americas, the "failure" of …
Issue: January-February 2005
Off the Shelf
… America, by David A. Sklansky, J.D. ’84 (Harvard, $35). The Morrison professor of law at Stanford, a former federal prosecutor, … the world casts off the assumptions underlying the enterprise—as it seems very much inclined to do. Class Matters, by …
Issue: March-April 2025
Financial Update: Harvard Retains Triple-A Rating, Princeton Foresees Deeper Cuts
… Moody's Investors Service , the credit-rating agency, has issued a review of Harvard's creditworthiness, and maintained its Aaa and associated ratings on $5.8 billion of outstanding debt, with a "stable" outlook for the future. …
Vote Now
… choose five new Harvard Overseers and six new directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. Ballots will be … at the HAA’s annual meeting on May 27, on the afternoon of Commencement day. All holders of Harvard degrees, except Corporation members and officers …
Issue: March-April 2010
Excellence
… One of the unexpected pleasures of my new role is reading emails and letters from individuals who want nothing more than to share their hopes with the president of Harvard. There are, as you …
Issue: March-April 2019
Radcliffe Ramps Up
… Things are different at Fay House. As the academic year begins, Drew Gilpin Faust, the Civil War historian who is the first dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RI), has made … changes in programs and personnel, including a series of senior academic appointments. In the process, the form of …
Issue: September-October 2001
Triple Play
… Quinn Hoffman , a Harvard freshman on a 13-game hitting streak, … stepped up to home plate at Fenway Park. Batting second in the 2017 Beanpot baseball championship against Boston … out at the pitcher’s mound, where his father, Trevor Hoffman, had pitched in the 1999 All-Star Game. Beyond the …
Issue: May-June 2018
Tommy Lee Jones, Harvard Arts Medalist
… Film and theater actor Tommy Lee Jones ’69 will receive the 2012 … Thursday, April 26, at Sanders Theatre. Jones, the subject of a 1994 Harvard Magazine profile , will take part in a conversation at Sanders with …
Harvard Faculty Club Sued by Waitstaff
… Even as news broke that the Harvard Club of Boston had settled a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of its waitstaff for $4 million, came the news that a nearly …