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Unhealthy Hospitals
… Within the tranquility of Harvard Yard, it is difficult to imagine … facilities seem a striking anomaly. Obvious questions arise. How widespread are the problems of the nation's … and their major clinical facilities? How have the problems arisen? Why should they matter to anyone other than the …
Science Simulator
… “The thing I enjoyed about physics,” says Kathy Perkins ’92, … use it.” Today, Perkins combines that love for the elegance of physics with a desire to make a difference. As director of the nonprofit PhET Interactive Simulations, she oversees …
Issue: July-August 2012
Reconfiguring Radcliffe
… The institutional transformation of Radcliffe into an center … Associates (VSBA) calls for the reclamation and renovation of the major buildings that define the historic Radcliffe …
Issue: January-February 2003
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
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
Cambridge 02138
… I sympathize with the shocked Athenians and disgusted Germans who visited the exhibit of ancient sculptures that had recently been colored, as … Warning ,” November-December 2007, page 23), but was surprised that he misinterprets what seems to me the clear sense …
Issue: January-February 2008
Indian Boarding Schools, Then and Now
… In 1906, the U.S. government sent cavalry onto Hopi land in Arizona, … people to boarding school,” says Gregory Schaaf, director of the Center for Indigenous Arts & Cultures in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and author of the multivolume American Indian Art Series . “Why? …
Issue: March-April 2008
Jack Lew ’78, Former Clinton Budget Director, Nominated by Obama to Same Post
… President obama has nominated Jack Lew ’78 to head the federal Office of Management and Budget . Lew, whose time as budget …
Encouraging Esperanto
… vi parolas Esperanton? (Do you speak Esperanto?) For many, the answer may be surprising: more than two million people … ’78. Esperanto, devised by Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof and introduced in an 1887 booklet, is the most widely … started about three years ago. “I always got a lot of enjoyment through learning languages, and learning about …
Issue: January-February 2016
Gordon Brown's Prescription for Global Economic Health
… Speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School on September 23, former British … not just in one country but across the board.” In the wake of the global financial crisis, he said, such “globally … until 2010; he had previously spent 10 years as chancellor of the exchequer in the Labour Party’s government. His …
English Evolves--and Reverts
… At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting on April 8, Gurney professor of English literature and professor of comparative literature James Engell, speaking on behalf of the department he chairs, moved that it shed its current …
Issue: July-August 2008
Brevia
… On Diversity As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments this spring on the University of Michigan's race-conscious admissions policies, Harvard will file a brief supporting the right of higher-education institutions to consider race as a …
Issue: March-April 2003
It’s a Small World
… Likely distracted by the American Revolution, John Hancock, A.B. 1754, … position until 1807, a stabilizing force in a time of upheaval. In 1914, Francis Storer Eaton donated some of his great-grandfather’s possessions to the University. …
Issue: September-October 2019
Chapter & Verse
… F. Markoe Rivinus requests the title and the other words of a song he heard in the late … Harry Goldgar asks if someone can supply the identity of the “Institute” referred to in, and a specific origin …
Issue: November-December 2005
Optimizing Inequality
… When Harvard Business School associate professor Michael Norton set out to survey preferences about the distribution of wealth in America, he learned that people’s perceptions …