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Fashion Victims?
… I’ve seen it every day for three years now. Take your pick of location: the main doors of Sever and Emerson Halls when classes let out, the wooden …
Sanctions Truce
… In the wake of Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana’s decision … to sanctions beginning with students enrolling this August, the most visible opponents of the policy have stepped back from challenging it through …
Parenting Digital Kids
… General Vivek Murthy ’98 got his first cell phone in 2001, the ability to make calls anytime, anywhere gave him a “feeling of freedom.” Then he bought a headset. When calling someone … faraway friends. The headset gave him paradoxical feelings of connection and isolation. He could efficiently talk on …
Crimson, White, and Blue
… perhaps no history is more visibly honored than that of Harvard's warriors. Since the earliest days of the United States, brave Harvard students and alumni have …
Issue: November-December 2002
Nobel Duo
… Two Harvardians have been awarded Nobel Prizes for their contributions to scholarship and society this year. Furer professor of economics Oliver Hart won the Prize in Economic … contract cannot possibly predict every scenario that might arise between an employer and an employee, or a patient and …
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 …
Harvard Olympians Compete in Beijing
… Harvardians, including two undergraduates, will compete in the Beijing Olympic games during the next two weeks, in the sports of tennis, fencing, and rowing. Detailed scheduling and … run from September 6 to 17. Harvard has a long history of participation in the Olympic games, stretching back to …
Harvard's Dapper Dean
… Harvard may not have a reputation as the most fashionable place, but this morning, one of our own landed on the list of the 25 most stylish Bostonians compiled by the Boston …
Surgery for All
… It’s not usually associated with surgery. But consider the woman who dies in childbirth because she can’t reach a clinic that performs cesarean sections, or the man out of work because he can’t afford cataract surgery to restore … the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery argues that a lack of access to safe surgical care has a major impact on the …
Issue: July-August 2015
Faculty Well-Being: A Status Report
… For the first time, Harvard has asked its faculty members how … are. A survey conducted last November by the two-year-old Office of Faculty Development and Diversity (OFDD) measured the …
Issue: November-December 2007
Pushing Civil Rights
… In the spring of 1996, the appellate court decision in Hopwood v. Texas landed like … be used as a factor in college admissions. The decision set off a panic among academics and civil-rights advocates, who …
Issue: September-October 2003
Valedictory Mixtape
… For his last Commencement as the dean of the Graduate School of Education , James Ryan presented a mixtape, not a …
I Cook, Therefore I Am?
… The "Meeting the Minds" column in today's Boston Globe introduces Moore professor of biological anthropology Richard Wrangham and explores the …
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
Class Gifts
… The University had received 91,000 gifts through May 31 of … James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70, who gave an accounting of class gifts at the HAA’s annual meeting on the afternoon …
Issue: July-August 2007