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Crimson Women Head for Sochi Ice
… New Year’s Day, USA Hockey announced its women’s roster for the winter Olympics to be held in Sochi, Russia, beginning … February 23. Four current or former Harvard players made the team: Julie Chu ’06, Michelle Picard ’15, Josephine … team coach is Harvard head coach Katey Stone, recently profiled in Harvard Magazine. … Four Harvard players have made …
David Davidson
… “Now, I wouldn’t characterize myself as a vegetarian . Tofu—I could take it or leave it. But last week I had a tofu burger, and I was like, ‘Wow!’” he enthuses. “We’re slowly going to change people’s minds about what they should be eating. We’re meeting with the Lentil Board …
Issue: May-June 2018
Zellweger Gets Her Pudding Pot
… The Hasty Pudding Theatricals named Renée Zellweger "woman … Avenue to the New College Theatre, where a roast of Zellweger and a preview performance of this year's …
What Goes Unseen
… Around a dozen students were already seated by the time I made it over to the grassy clearing in Harvard … encampment that stood sandwiched between two of our school’s most iconic administrative buildings. I was … me was someone I admired fiercely, in large part because of her work in cultivating student-led spaces that afforded …
Oddments
… Catch that BTU: At the main entrance to the Science Center, an appeal in large … Please Use Revolving Door. Average heat transfer per use of swing door, 78 Watt hours = 1.3 hours of light from a desk lamp.” Shack: The late David Roy …
Issue: November-December 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 …
29-29, Forever
… Some—in fact, many —have called it the greatest football game ever played. Now, The Game of all Games—the battle of undefeated Harvard and Yale squads on November 23, 1968, …
Issue: November-December 2009
They Do It So Much in New England
… in public affairs—“meddling,” as he put it. CCB: The Life and Century of Charles C. Burlingham, New York’s First Citizen , by George Martin ’48 (Hill and Wang, $35), tells of the role played by the high-spirited CCB, as everyone …
Issue: January-February 2006
Brevia
… Robert E. Rubin U.S. Treasury Coming Attraction The Harvard Alumni Association's guest speaker on Commencement afternoon will be former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin '60, earlier of Goldman, Sachs and now chairman of the ex-ecutive …
The Sesquicentennial All-Crimson Team
… Harvard is celebrating the 150th anniversary of Crimson football. To commemorate … the occasion, we have undertaken the daunting task of choosing the greatest players in the program’s history. …
Issue: November-December 2023
Harvard Medical School
… The Class Day ceremony (held jointly with the Harvard School … with speaker Eric Lander, president and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Check back for …
News Briefs
… After a fall semester in which only about one-quarter of undergraduates were in residence (living on campus, but … remotely), and many took leaves or deferred admission, the College in December invited seniors, most juniors, and … 2019 to be the developer of Harvard’s 14-acre “enterprise research campus” (ERC) along Western Avenue (see …
Issue: March-April 2021
Squash, Egyptian Style
… styles dominate elite squash today: English and Egyptian. The English style emphasizes steadiness, long points, and … Egyptian style accents the creative and deceptive aspects of squash, and taxes the opponent’s mental toughness. “The … player will go for a trick shot and win a point out of nowhere.” Egypt has now become the world’s leading power …
Issue: January-February 2013
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 …
Harvard Calendar
… THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents the return engagement of George Gershwin Alone, by Hershey Felder, from July 5 to 26, followed by the premiere, from August 1 to 17, of Felder's Romantique, which depicts love and friendship …
Issue: July-August 2003