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Helen Mirren Named Woman of the Year
… Helen Mirren —best known for her Oscar-winning portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen and Emmy-winning role in the Prime Suspect series — will receive the Hasty Pudding Club’s 2014 Woman of the Year Award, honoring “a talented and renowned actress …
A Grammar of Pain
… As Of Men and War opens, a trumpet moans and won’t resolve into taps, and a van traps men who let it bounce them. They rarely come to town, they say. They are quick to … myself.” The scene ends then, and then the music of flutes rises behind a desert highway that speeds past the camera. …
The Air of Contentment
… 1636 (now Dedham, Massachusetts), it was likely to make use of his crucial skill: spinning-wheel maker. Every family … weaving cloth, says Leslie Griesmer, business manager at the Fairbanks House historic site —“the oldest wood-frame … the dark, low-ceilinged dwelling that includes a warren of rooms added over time, it’s easy to imagine hunkering …
Issue: September-October 2019
Ghosts in the Yard
… Richard Lawrence Robert Crowder, M.P.A. ’07 Kennedy School of Government, delivers the Graduate English Oration titled "Ghosts in the Yard" for … which pervades this place, and which can make us each rise to the call of our ghosts. For me, that vocation is the …
Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty
… Harvard Magazine welcomed loyal and generous donors to the magazine to a private viewing of To Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty , highlights from the collection …
Special Evening Exploring the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
… YOU ARE INVITED! In appreciation of your generous support of Harvard Magazine , please join Editor John S. Rosenberg … and Publisher Irina Kuksin for a Special Evening Exploring the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. …
Blades of Yore
… Here we see the skates and stick (blade left) of Leverett Saltonstall … LL.B. ’17, LL.D. ’42, who made at least one notable use of them before he became a Republican governor of …
Issue: March-April 2007
Vita: Alexander Hamilton Rice
… man who served as a faculty member and director and founder of the Harvard Institute of Geographical Exploration (1929-1952). His ultimate …
Issue: March-April 2013
A Poet’s March of Ages
… In an era of Twitter and data and apps, what place is there for a 1,600-page encyclopedia devoted to a long-dead … civil wars, the assassination of Julius Caesar, and the rise of Augustus. His works include the pastoral Eclogues as …
Issue: January-February 2014
The Brahmin Rebel
… Last year, the publication of his Collected Poems returned Robert … of life in Cambridge, like "Blizzard in Cambridge": "Risen from the blindness of teaching to bright … river Houses: Lying in bed, I see a blind white morning rise to mid-heaven in a gaggle of snow— a silk stocking is …
Issue: May-June 2004
The Cost of Political Violence
… Donald Trump, rising political violence is once again in the news. On Thursday afternoon, the Harvard Kennedy School convened a panel of scholars to discuss how Americans’ attitudes have … The bottom line? “The fight to uphold democracy is all of our fights,” said Hardy Merriman, president of the …
Increased Risk of Ozone Loss above United States
… A team of Harvard scientists led by Weld professor of atmospheric chemistry James G. Anderson announced today the discovery of a serious and wholly unexpected risk of …
Emergence of a Field
… In its first few years , the Origins of Life Initiative has forged new connections … no way to address it without broadening the typical scope of disciplines. The initiative’s regular meetings have …
Issue: September-October 2013
At the Head of His Classmates
… On Commencement day, the chief marshal of the twenty-fifth reunion class greets … educational administrator fills that position: the class of 1986 elected Arne Duncan , the U.S. secretary of …
The People's Epidemiologists
… In the city of Boston —and everywhere else—wealth equals … you live in Beacon Hill’s Louisburg Square, which sits in the federal census tract with the third highest median … in Suffolk County—$196,210—you’re sitting pretty. Your risk of dying before the age of 65 is about 30 percent less than …
Issue: March-April 2006