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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 …
Local Tables
… Though small, the menu at Ten Tables in Cambridge tends toward the exquisite. Take the short list of wine-based cocktails. The Gaston 76 is made with a lesser … Hollywood-thin cucumber slices idling along the inside of the glass. The slightly anise-like flavor starts out …
Issue: May-June 2010
Robert L. Clinton IV, J.D. ’24, Graduate English Address: “On Being Good”
… got such wonderful friends. I’ve learned from kindhearted professors who have taught me so much more than just law. When I think about the nights out, the slices of Joe’s pizza at midnight, the kisses, the encounters with …
Beginning Again
… It was the summer of 1972, and I had one question on my mind: Will … to begin a graduate degree program in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. As the first day of classes approached, I wondered about what I would …
Issue: September-October 2018
You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat
… In the late 2000s, Rachel Carmody was spending a lot of time … she was studying whether cooking changed the number of calories the gut can extract from food. When humans …
Issue: November-December 2023
Law School Class Address
… Listen to the live audio recording. … Speech as delivered by Guido Calabresi, U.S. Court of Appeals judge and former dean of Yale Law School, for the Law School Class Exercises Address. Dear friends, it is …
Dunster Demolition
… Approximately seven weeks after the construction project began, the renewal of Dunster House is in full swing. The perimeter of one of the oldest dormitories for upperclassmen is almost …
A Faculty Motion on Divesting Fossil-Fuel Investments
… As reported , the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at its regularly … is the defining challenge of our age, and Harvard needs to rise to the occasion. The white paper refers to a …
At Home with Old Age
… As the keynote speaker at an AARP workshop on elder care, William Thomas, M.D. ’86, is telling the story of Eos, the Greek goddess who fell in love with the Trojan … he says, adding, “This should not be that much of a surprise since the nursing home was never a paragon of …
Issue: November-December 2008
No Answers for O-
… The day before I arrived in Kosovo, authorities in Pristina changed the name of the capital city's thoroughfare from Vladimir Lenin … station, and bakery. Frankly, I got used to them. What surprised me more were my interactions with the Pristina locals. …
Issue: November-December 2003
Glenn Hutchins Endows African American Studies
… In an unusual bit of pre-Harvard Campaign publicity, Glenn H. Hutchins '77, … University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African … the hiphop institute, an art gallery, and other enterprises. Updated 11:20 a.m. Read the University announcement …
"Roots" and Race
… a New York Times article raised a long-simmering issue: the origins and ancestry of Harvard's black students. The piece described the … of exactly who those black students are." The question arises because, even though in recent years 7 to 9 percent of …
Issue: September-October 2004
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
Toward Top-Tier Teaching
… force on teaching proposed in late January that members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) enter into a “compact” to enhance …
Issue: March-April 2007
(Un)common Sense
… There is no more powerful gambit in contemporary political … to “common sense,” to principles grounded in the sentiments of “the people.” But it is not evident why this is so, nor … how it came to be. Sophia Rosenfeld, Ph.D. ’96, associate professor of history at the University of Virginia, has dug …
Issue: July-August 2011