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Harvard Endowment Managers’ Pay Reported
… With the filing in mid May of its tax return for nonprofit organizations (Form 990) for 2011 (covering the tax year from July 1, 2011, to June 30, 2012— Harvard’s …
Aloian Scholars
… In honor of the David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholarships’ twenty-fifth anniversary, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has chosen four undergraduates to receive the award this year (instead of the usual two). Recipients have demonstrated solid …
Issue: November-December 2012
New Vistas in 3-D
… [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th_T9XDIffU] Press the "play" button in the video screen above to take a guided tour of the 3-D PDF with Alyssa Goodman. Then explore the Perseus … or other PDF viewer such as Preview. Download the Adobe software free of charge here . The image that loads by …
Issue: May-June 2009
Chapter & Verse
… Edith Kovach seeks the author and additional text of a poem she believes was … first defined what as "like a sharply cut rock in the midst of a shapeless sea"--an unidentified phrase used by Justice …
Stealing Rembrandts Does Not Pay
… [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGyF2rUeP7w width:407] The theft of 13 paintings from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner … history. Anthony Amore, M.P.A. ’00, the current head of security at the museum, has now written a book on art …
Issue: March-April 2012
Stories from Botswana
… Statistics and journal articles do not begin to convey the human toll of HIV. Lasker professor of health sciences Myron “Max” Essex has seen that …
“Today's Speech is Going to Be a Little Different”
… The Class Day speaker chosen by the class of 2003, comedian … doublespeak, a world in which your limo to the airport is often a half-hour late." then U.S. president George W. Bush, …
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
Genomic Science and Society
… Francis Collins, the home-schooled director of the National Human Genome … launched into a presentation of the genome's top 10 surprises--"a format familiar to those of you who stay up too …
Miserable She's Not
… She made a high-energy but graceful entrance, nothing too theatrical, sat in a director's chair at a butcherblock coffee table in this reporter's office, picked up a pot … family, from Southeast Asia through Australia, and they comprise her favorite genus. She has a hoya tattooed on her …
Issue: July-August 2003
Presidents Xi and Faust Confer in China
… Faust, visiting Beijing for a "Your Harvard" event and other University business, met on Monday night with People's … President Xi Jinping. The two leaders discussed a number of issues of mutual importance for China and Harvard, including …
Sidewalk Bulwarks
… The 1995 truck bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City hastened a … introduced in 1955), ring the Washington Monument and block off Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. …
Issue: July-August 2003
Documentarian
… Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1970s and ’80s, Michele Forman ’93 loved visual art and … with a “note in the margin that this could be a movie,” and offered her a summer internship. After graduation, she … and pre-interviews for the film “changed the trajectory of my career,” she says. “I knew that I wanted to come back …
Issue: March-April 2019
“An Evolutionary Scandal”
… it seems, eschew it. Not love, that is, but sex, which these multi-celled freshwater invertebrates have not had in perhaps 80 million years, say Cabot professor of the natural sciences Matthew Meselson and … scandal. Creatures that can reproduce without sex have arisen sporadically throughout history, but the fossil record …
“From Artist to Audience” at Radcliffe
… poet, designer/photographer, and composer—discussed the creative process and the relationship between creators … at the Loeb Drama Center. Diane Paulus, artistic director of the American Repertory Theater (ART) and professor of the … of President Barack Obama, J.D. ’91—and gave a reprise at the Loeb. McIver and her mentally disabled sister …