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The Trilemma
… If scholars’ intellectual interests emerge from their underlying worries, then economist Dani Rodrik’s lifelong preoccupation with the fate of developing countries grew out of his early life in … program: free trade, privatization of state enterprises, deregulation, and openness to foreign investment. …
Issue: July-August 2019
Off the Shelf
… in Education, by John Palfrey ’94, J.D. ’01 (MIT, $19.95). The author, previously Harvard Law’s vice dean for library and information resources, now head of Phillips Academy, Andover, plunges into the fierce debate … powers from invading and occupying their lands”—giving rise to a nationalistic response. Life without End, by Karl …
Issue: January-February 2018
Amy Poehler Named Woman of the Year
… star and Boston-area native Amy Poehler will receive the Hasty Pudding Club’s 2015 Woman of the Year Award, honoring “a talented and hilarious actress whose brand of comedy fits so well with the Pudding’s own tradition of …
Chris Pratt Is Man of the Year
… After announcing last week that Amy Poehler will be Woman of the Year , yet another Parks and Recreation actor—comedian … take center stage in Farkas Hall as the Hasty Pudding Man of the Year, the group announced today. “We vehemently deny …
"The rule of law and foreign law in our Supreme Court"
… Jeremy Waldron, University Professor at the New York University School of Law explores the Bill of Rights in the context of the …
The Social Life of Memory
… Leading a healthy social life depends on the ability to predict the behavior of others accurately. Most people expect a loud, aggressive … a passive, quiet loner to shy away from confrontation. More often than not, that’s correct. Yet exactly how the brain …
Issue: July-August 2013
The Pump Overflows
… delving into Sanskrit, Avestan, Hittite, Old Irish, and the other early languages of the Indo-European family. It was an unusual turn for an … his Ph.D. in linguistics in 1959 and, after an accelerated rise through the junior ranks, found himself, at the age of …
Issue: May-June 2015
“The Measure of the Novel”
… ’12, who has been attending this year’s Norton Lectures by the Turkish novelist and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, filed … on September 22 for Sanders Theatre to open for the first of the 2009-2010 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, all the talk was of the lecturer, Orhan Pamuk: "Have you read any of his …
AI is Making Medical Decisions — But For Whom?
… A young boy of short stature comes to the doctor with low growth hormone levels and no clear … while data matters, the deeper ethical inflection point arises when human feedback teaches a system how to respond, …
The Busy-ness School
… “Is there no one in this House who plays basketball?” the e-mail reads. I feel a twinge of guilt. I signed up to play intramural basketball for … us there,” I answer, watching the steam of my breath rise and dissolve into the stars. “I’ll call Dave.” I wonder …
Issue: May-June 2006
All Eyes on China
… T minus two weeks to the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in China. Amid … "PSB [Public Security Bureau] personnel may conduct surprised [sic] inspection of our property without notification …
The Endowment and the Environment: Year Three
… Harvard Management Company (HMC), which manages the University’s endowment, released its third annual climate report February 9. This series of reports began in 2021, a year after Harvard announced a … such a commitment. The new report, based on data current as of June 30, 2022 (the end of the most recent fiscal year), …
Signs of the Times
… During their diaspora while their permanent digs are renovated this year, Winthrop House residents inhabiting one of the swing spaces found their interim home dubbed “The … walks through campus. For instance, the Graduate School of Design café, Chauhaus, nods to history, too: a cheeky …
Issue: January-February 2017
A Course for the Commercial Space Age
… leaps for mankind, Harvard Business School is making a leap of its own. Last week, the school launched its first course devoted to outer space, … “Space: Public and Commercial Economics,” led by Elbling professor of business administration Matthew C. Weinzierl. To …
Taste of Provence
… This could be where a trend starts: Sel de la Terre, hard by the site of Boston's Big Dig, offers eight first courses, all priced at $8, and seven …