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Grover Norquist, America's “Most Powerful Man”?
… The Sunday Boston Globe Magazine's cover story features “The Most Powerful Man in America*”—a profile of Grover Norquist '78, M.B.A. '81, the prominent antitax …
Homecoming
… The arrangements and itinerary for the election and introduction of Harvard's twenty-seventh president, on Sunday, March 11, … succeed Derek C. Bok. There was the New York City gathering of the University's Governing Boards, convening this time on …
Neurons Sort Nouns
… Imagine the brain as a giant filing cabinet. The puzzle of … in his dialogue Cratylus that human speech is made up of nouns and verbs that are, in turn, made up of letters and …
Issue: July-August 2006
On Campus, Concisely
… in November after black tape was pasted over portraits of its African-American professors in Wasserstein Hall, thrusting the University into the national spotlight amid growing …
Marina N. Bolotnikova , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: January-February 2016
Extracurriculars
… Beat the heat this summer by exploring an assortment of … in and around Harvard Square, ranging from a splash of eclectic exhibitions and outdoor concerts to musical …
Issue: July-August 2006
“Beyond Words”: Beauty and History Converge at Houghton
… In 2000, Jeffrey Hamburger, Francke professor of German art and culture, and William Stoneman, curator of … began unearthing lesser-known medieval manuscripts across the Boston area. This week, their efforts culminate with the …
Premier Physicist
… Mallinckrodt professor of physics Roy J. Glauber ’45, Ph.D. ’49, has a new title: Nobel laureate. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences conferred the prize on …
Issue: November-December 2005
Raising Young Voices
… The music of the Boston Children’s Chorus (BCC)—with themes of immigration, protest, and history—seems to especially … song promises, “For each child that’s born, a morning star rises to sing who we are.” On stage, Kromm adds, you’re …
Issue: January-February 2023
2008-09 Rhodes Scholars Named
… Among the 32 members of this year's class of Rhodes Scholars, announced yesterday, are three students … a doctorate in Oriental studies at Oxford, according to the Crimson and a University news release . Malorie Snider, …
Boogie-Woogie
… It's a small exhibition, but a bit of a blockbuster. "Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings" focuses on a group of 17 paintings that the Dutch abstract artist Piet Mondrian …
A Teach-in on Teaching
… The first in a series of “Conversations@FAS” convened by Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael D. Smith drew a standing-room-only crowd on February 11 to a lecture theater in Maxwell-Dworkin, where professors, lecturers, …
Storybook Ending
… Rebounding from a rocky start, the football team defeated its first six Ivy League … squad, 37-6. The Yale Bowl upset dashed Old Eli’s hopes of completing a perfect season, and brought Harvard its … outright Ivy title since 1997. Not since the grand opening of the Bowl in 1914, when Harvard spoiled the occasion with …
Issue: January-February 2008
A Bet and a Black Hole
… The idea that objects exist whose gravity is so powerful … distance to Cygnus X-1, making possible an inference of its mass. Furthermore, they calculated that the gas … times per second—a phenomenal rate that is half the speed of light—clear evidence of an object whose gravitational …
Issue: November-December 2011
FAS Slightly Loosens Purse Strings
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith e-mailed a … could increase in fiscal year 2011, beginning July 1; that the number of graduate students admitted next year would be held …
Football 2018: Harvard 45, Yale 27
… The 135th playing of The Game on Saturday at Fenway Park had a flyover, … heartbreak and (probably) the first mass chorus of “Sweet Caroline” at a Harvard-Yale game. It also had …