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Fixing America’s Heartland
… In Flint, Michigan , more than half the men between the ages of 25 and 54 are unemployed—and no … at a very high cost per job.” A 2013 study of enterprise zones in the United States, for example, “found that …
Issue: September-October 2018
Four in a Row
… be advised that Marco Iannuzzi’s 84-yard kick return in the 2010 Harvard-Yale game will stand as another high moment … end-zone rush at dusk in the triple-overtime thriller of 2005. Unlike those late-game heroics, Iannuzzi’s runback … holding an uncertain 21-14 lead, coach Murphy made a surprise move and sent Winters out to start the second half. …
Issue: January-February 2011
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Sr.
… Thanks to the recent publication of Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.'s A … Arthur Meier Schlesinger's In Retrospect: The History of a Historian now forms the opening part of a unique family …
Issue: November-December 2004
Battling Bioterrorism
… When people started dying of inhalation anthrax in 1979 in Sverdlovsk, in the former Soviet Union, it took "six days to discern the … Guillemin '68 in her 1999 book, Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak. More than 60 people died. The fact …
Issue: January-February 2002
Economics and Moral Questions
… Last fall , President Lawrence H. Summers spoke at the first Morning Prayers service of the semester at Memorial Church. His controversial … 15, Summers chose to speak in his second capacity, as professor of economics. The former U.S. Secretary of the …
Issue: November-December 2003
A Dogged Observer
… a yearlong retreat to Western Massachusetts, he’d wandered the woods, visually researching his book. At first, he paid … to the flora and fauna. But everything changed during one of the first snows when his puppy, Figaro, darted off to chase an interesting smell. Mason saw he was …
Issue: March-April 2024
A Gift of Munch Artworks
… from Philip A. Straus ’37 and his wife Lynn G. Straus of 62 prints and two paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) has made the Harvard Art Museums’ collection of that artist’s work “one of the largest and most …
Harvard Headlines: ROTC, Ayn Rand, Orhan Pamuk, AIDS Art, and More
… Sunday's New York Times was full of articles with Harvard links. One by Michael Winerip ’74, in the Education Life section, explores ROTC policies at … and other elite universities , and how balancing the ideals of nondiscrimination and national service has these schools …
Harvard Men Beat Princeton and Penn, Again
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Earlier this … Tommy Amaker, does for games. The speaker also shared many of Amaker’s aphorisms, such as “Failing to prepare is … ’15. In “The Voice Inside My Head,” delivered as part of the Lowell Speeches Project , Anastasi discussed what he …
Jazz and Boston: A True Combo
… It’s a Friday night at The Mad Monkfish in Cambridge’s Central Square and Yoko Miwa … everyone is completely tuned in. For some, music is part of the atmosphere, akin to the lipstick-red laminated seats; … Boston, there’s plenty of jazz to be heard. This might surprise those who think jazz hubs mean New Orleans and New York …
Issue: November-December 2019
A Humanist Who Knows Corn Flakes
… Homi Bhabha tells a story about corn flakes to illustrate the relevance of the humanities to international commerce. “For many years … about them. Indian manufacturers would produce imitations of foreign goods—for instance, corn flakes. “When the …
Issue: September-October 2005
Vigorous Outdoor Escapes
… The last stretch of arête—the rocky ridge leading to the 5,268-foot summit of Mount Katahdin in northern Maine—is called the Knife … in. Outdoor sports such as rock climbing have clearly risen in popularity, according to Sam Brotherton ’12, vice …
Issue: March-April 2012
Lindsay Waters
… Jim Harrison Lindsay Waters is an uncommon bird. He is both the executive editor for the humanities of Harvard University Press — perforce a generalist, … — and a productive scholar himself. At the University of Chicago he began as a medievalist, doing his doctoral …
Issue: May-June 2003
Inevitable Mistakes, Avoidable Harm
… The culture of medicine has long tried to keep doctors from making mistakes by indoctrinating them to believe that they shouldn’t make mistakes. “It’s the … as physicians,” says Tejal Gandhi, executive director of quality and safety at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and …
Issue: March-April 2008
Day-After Thoughts: "Words Have Made a Comeback"
… Now that the 2008 presidential campaign has ended, it's time to begin … lessons; Humanities Center scholar-in-residence Kiku Adatto offered a first take on Wednesday in a luncheon talk hosted by the Committee on the Concerns of Women at Harvard. Adatto, a lecturer on social studies at …