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"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
Football 2023: Harvard 45-University of St. Thomas 13
… Let’s not kid ourselves. The Harvard football team’s 45-13 thrashing of St. Thomas on Saturday in the Crimson’s 2023 opener at Harvard Stadium had its uses. It kicked off a season-long celebration of 150 years of Harvard …
Measuring an Education
… How do you measure the impact of a liberal arts education? It is a fundamental … papers, and projects. Yet can these capture the full weight of a Harvard education? In the long term, what do we do here …
Issue: November-December 2017
Boston Hospitals
… Boston is a mecca of medicine, home to some of the most prestigious hospitals and medical schools, …
Issue: November-December 2012
Haute Naturelle
… The charmingly small, civilly quiet T.W. Food, in the Huron Village area of Cambridge, seems to have arrived in the right place at the right time, and with the right philosophy of dining. The owners, chef Tim Wiechmann (T.W. to you) and …
Issue: March-April 2008
Next Steps
… On a Wednesday afternoon in April, members of the Paul Taylor Dance Company rehearsed Esplanade in their … only with seeming effort during darker, moodier parts of the choreography. Her steps were precise yet energetic. …
Issue: July-August 2018
Extracurriculars
… Savor the sunshine and dabble in a variety of activities in and … around Harvard Square this spring, ranging from a string of orchestral concerts and choral performances to acclaimed …
Issue: March-April 2006
Graduate Student Union Considers Agenda
… For most unions , getting ready for any round of negotiations with an employer requires research and a complicated juggling act—reconciling the varying, sometimes competing, interests of its membership. Those challenges and more await the newly …
Developmental Troubles
… When the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) was disbanded in 2000, it meant the disappearance of the University's largest entity devoted to international … structural problems, a 1997 scandal in Russia over conflict-of-interest charges, and financial deficits in its final two …
Issue: September-October 2002
Media-maniac Derrick Ashong
… Singer-songwriter Derrick Ashong ’97, subject of a Montage profile in Harvard Magazine, was recently featured in a short video for the Wall Street Journal' s website. In it, Ashong revisits …
Cambridge Scholars
… Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2019-2020 academic year. Madeleine Woods, of Colorado and Winthrop House, an English and folklore and … de Jersey Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College; Mahnoor Ali, of California and Adams House, a comparative literature …
Issue: July-August 2019
"Bobby" Jones
… Jones connects at the Flintridge Golf Club in Los Angeles in 1931. Photograph … known." From 1922 to 1930, he placed first or second in 11 of 13 U.S. and British Open championships, winning seven times and losing twice in playoffs. He was a five-time U.S. Amateur champion who captured …
Issue: March-April 2002
“Crimmigration”
… “It often happens,” says Phil Torrey, managing attorney of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program …
Issue: July-August 2018
Global,
… address, President Lawrence H. Summers focused on “perhaps the defining development of our time,” the “growing integration” between the … the globe, internationalizing research, and effecting all of these goals through a presence in the world, tangible and …
Issue: July-August 2005
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