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Wine...and Dine
… Photograph courtesy of Bin 26 Enoteca Bin 26 décor is all about wine; the menu offers ricotta gnocchi and baby squid in tomato sauce. In …
Issue: September-October 2008
News Briefs
… Police—and Student—Conduct The committee appointed by President Drew Faust last spring to review the April 13 off-campus arrest of a black undergraduate by Cambridge … professionals as first responders when mental-health crises arise. HUHS was encouraged as well to promote …
Issue: January-February 2019
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 …
Transition Time
… down as Harvard’s twenty-eighth president on June 30, 2018, the end of the new academic year, concluding service that began on … differ from prior searches because the Corporation now comprises a dozen members plus the president (who will not be …
Issue: September-October 2017
Orchestrating Opera’s Emotions
… It was Francis Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine —fittingly, “the human voice”—that convinced conductor Sara Jobin ’92 to … at Opera San Jose, she was overcome by how the emotions—of depression, and lost love—were conveyed by the timbre of the soprano’s voice alone. “For me, it was like the voice …
Issue: March-April 2015
A Communal Campus?
… to explore improvements to Harvard’s Cambridge campus, with the aim of making better use of existing spaces to foster faculty-student interaction, …
Issue: July-August 2008
Hearing the Faculty’s Voice
… Although the campus is far calmer this fall than last , differences of opinion about Harvard’s direction and leadership continue … and senior administrators from some significant portion of the faculties. Recent actions by the University …
Channel Cerfing
… his parents and comically brandished a shotgun at their wedding. Those parents would be Phyllis Fraser, a … actress and later book editor, and Bennett Cerf, co-founder of Random House publishers, author, columnist, and TV … you learn in one place and use it somewhere else.” His professional career also began in his father’s footsteps. For …
Issue: July-August 2011
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 …
“No Limits” to China-Russia Relations?
… How might the war in Ukraine affect the relationship between Russia … alliance in the world? “The honest answer with a lot of these issues is, it’s such a black box that we don’t … the severity of the Russian movements caught them by surprise.” It’s impossible to be sure, but “my suspicion,” he …
How to Take a European Bike Vacation
… had taken several bike trips through Eastern Europe, among other unique expeditions, during the Cold War. Lyon planned a … trip,” Lyon says. “It was a great bonding experience, full of amazing sights and great food. So when I came back, I started doing research,” he continues. “What kind of trips could we do together?” Lyon began collecting German …
Issue: September-October 2021
Caviar and Heather
… The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of … (Counterpoint, $26) is a captivatingly written chronicle of a fast disappearing fish with a mysterious history and an …
Issue: November-December 2005
Tear Down
… Ten years after the Center for Government and International Studies was … first envisioned by a faculty committee, the future site of the complex is finally being readied for construction. The demolition of Coolidge Hall, on the north side of Cambridge Street, …
Issue: January-February 2003
Harvard Medalists 2014
… Pulitzer, A.M. ’63, and “Jack” P. Reardon Jr. ’60—received the 2014 Harvard Medal for “extraordinary service to the … Alumni Association’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. President Drew Faust read the … in the Harvard College Fund, Anand Mahindra is a member of the President’s Global Advisory Council, the Committee on …
"Unsales" Pitches
… These days, prescription drug ads bombard the consumer at … numbers like that, but physician Jerry Avorn is trying. A professor at Harvard Medical School, Avorn pioneered what he calls the unsales approach: offering doctors solid science to augment, and in some cases …
Issue: November-December 2006