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Neuroscience News
… for Systems Neuroscience got a double boost in late fall: the appointment of its first director and the approval by the Harvard Corporation of plans for a new laboratory building in Cambridge, part of …
Issue: January-February 2004
"Harry Potter" Author to Speak at Commencement
… year's Commencement speaker will be J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, the University … young people to experience the excitement and the sheer joy of reading." Global sales of Rowling's seven novels, …
Exiting Iraq
… I have chosen to discuss Iraq in part because there are over 150,000 Americans serving there in the military, as well as U.S. civilians: government officials and supporting contractors. Every week between one and two dozen of these individuals are killed or gravely injured, and our …
Issue: September-October 2005
Raising Young Voices
… The music of the Boston Children’s Chorus (BCC)—with themes of immigration, protest, and history—seems to especially … song promises, “For each child that’s born, a morning star rises to sing who we are.” On stage, Kromm adds, you’re …
Issue: January-February 2023
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
Songs with “Open Eyes”
… “I like broad canvases—probably too broad most of the time,” says theater composer Michael Friedman ’97. “But … not ambitious enough.” Friedman isn’t likely to be accused of insufficient ambition. This August, a new version of …
Issue: November-December 2013
Bittersweet Victory
… In the sea of commentaries on the meaning of Barack Obama’s victory, one by Roger Angell …
Cryptic Puzzle: “Regatta”
… SOLVE THE MOST recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas … Ontario, Canada Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD …
Diversity and Diminishing Tax Revenues
… that twentieth-century U.S. suburbs emerged during the exodus of whites from cities, as millions of African Americans from the South moved north and west in …
Issue: November-December 2018
Morning Prayers: All Creatures
… or an hour outside our usual work and lives to consider the larger meaning of what we do. It is also a place where we think beyond our … children, and it is in one sense a quite simple matter of human self-interest and survival. But it is also a …
Issue: November-December 2008
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 …
Blackboard Brain Drain
… When children return to classrooms this fall, they're less likely than ever to find a very smart teacher standing at the front of the class. Researchers say that since the 1960s, … contracts," Hoxby says. One of the findings that most surprised her was just how widely teacher salaries varied before …
Issue: September-October 2004
Centralizing University Discipline
… During the Israel-Palestine protests that occurred on the Harvard campus during the 2023-2024 academic year, a number of students broke University rules and were punished. But … explained some of the disciplinary problems that have arisen from the University’s notably decentralized …
One Man's Mountain
… Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian emphasized the literary qualities of his work, not the political conditions that make him an exile from his native land. Justin Ide/ Harvard News Office Even winning the Nobel Prize for Literature doesn't …
Spas around New England
… All the establishments below offer visitors the chance to “get … Options for getting away from it all … 44066 … A selection of New England spas … 1513 … Spas around New England … …
Issue: March-April 2014