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Paul G. Kirk Jr. ’60, LL.B. ’64, Named Interim Senator from Massachusetts
… Paul G. Kirk Jr. ’60, LL.B. ’64, will succeed the late Edward M. Kennedy ’54, LL.D. ’08, as U.S. Senator … to Kennedy from 1971 to 1977 and later became chairman of the Democratic Party from 1985 to 1989, has remained close to the Kennedy family; he served as master of ceremonies for the celebration of Kennedy’s life held the …
Court Sparks
… Brogan Berry The point guard —the #1 position—is the quarterback of a basketball team. She’s the floor leader, starting the attack and shouting defensive signals. Much of the team’s success or failure hinges on her …
Issue: November-December 2011
(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
HarvardMagazine.com Gets a Makeover
… For more than a year , a group of Harvard Magazine staffers have collaborated to create a new, streamlined version of harvardmagazine.com. The clean, straightforward design makes the new site much …
News Briefs
… ’07 announced in December a $500-million gift to establish the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard. The … growth, in the commercially oriented Enterprise Research Campus and elsewhere (in contrast to Harvard’s …
Issue: March-April 2022
"Pure Brit" Finds Second Home at Harvard
… The new president of the Harvard Alumni Association, James V. Baker '68, M.B.A. … bus north. His host family, "the William H. Vanderbilts of Brookline, Massachusetts," met him at the Boston depot. …
Issue: September-October 2003
Urban Adventure Quest, Boston
… scavenger hunts in Boston. One covers landmarks along the Freedom Trail, and the other Boston Harbor; both pose … House Photograph by Diego Grandi/Alamy Stock Photo A team of two to five people—friends, colleagues, or family … encouraged. And anyone who joins numerous quests—which are offered in more than 40 locations, including Memphis, …
Issue: November-December 2020
Vulnerable Sculpture
… Sculpture breaks free of the frames that confine paintings and drawings. Released … mobiles do. Sarah Sze’s vulnerable works take the mirroring of life even further. Unpredictably, sporadically, they may …
Issue: September-October 2006
Close to Par
… endowment was valued at $36.4 billion last June 30, the end of fiscal year 2014—$3.7 billion more (11.3 percent) … all about”: supporting the University’s academic enterprise. For a detailed report on HMC’s performance by asset …
Issue: November-December 2014
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
Band Director Tom Everett Steps Down
… Tom Everett , director of the Harvard University Bands since 1971, will retire from that post as of February 15, 2013, reports the Arts Spectrum of Harvard’s …
Humanities Rebooted
… Two of Harvard’s most venerable humanities disciplines have … requirements in recent months, marking 2008-09 as a year of considerable curricular change in the foundational literary fields. Both English and the …
Issue: May-June 2009
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
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 …