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Cryptic Puzzle: “Gift”
… SOLVE THE MOST recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. … Philippines Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD …
Commencement Confetti
… Seniors Say… The Crimson’s class of 2014 survey ( … finance and consulting jobs will employ 31 percent of working graduates, a statistic that has stayed steady in … during the afternoon program—where Reardon received a surprise Harvard Medal . To his amusement, Reardon has also been …
Issue: July-August 2014
Advice to America from a French Friend
… arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." In the course of scholarly rummaging in the Harvard University Archives, … scholar and community organizer in Chicago and the author of Tocqueville Unveiled: The Historian and His Sources for …
Issue: January-February 2004
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 …
Grading Teachers
… Education researchers and policymakers, like the rest of us, have long known that a good teacher can make … (i.e. a college major or equivalent course credits, passage of a state examination, or a graduate degree). But do these …
Issue: November-December 2006
Stirred, Shaken, and Sung
… At the end of Pink Martini’s Carnegie Hall debut this past … out in the audience and bounced its way up and down one of the aisles. Even in the venerable hall’s tiered … know enough to be scared.” Pink Martini’s success has surprised many, and that includes Lauderdale himself. “When the …
Issue: January-February 2008
Maestro Lenny
… Bernstein ’39, D.Mus. ’67, will always be remembered as the conductor of the New York Philharmonic, but he was a native New … 14, Harvard’s music department will collaborate with the Office for the Arts on “Leonard Bernstein: Boston to …
Issue: September-October 2006
Chapter and Verse
… More queries from the archive: A request for the text of a short story called “The Field of Purple Bloom,” originally read in serial form in a …
Issue: March-April 2011
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
Cryptic Puzzle: “Coach”
… Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. … Debbie Levine – Acton, MA Dave Libby – Concord, MA Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico Daniel J. Milton – …
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
Heads of the Parade
… reunions anymore,” said George Post ’45, who turns 102 in the fall, at this year’s third annual Alumni Day, on Friday, … the last few months reaching out to the nine living members of his class to encourage them to come—no easy feat when … I cherish this place so much,” Huberman said, in a class of 1944 hat and jacket that he received 55 years ago at his …
Multilateral Commencement
… One might have anticipated that the volumes of talk from Harvard podiums during Commencement … would have been about the war, terrorism, and the role of the United States on the world's stage. But no. The …
Issue: July-August 2003
Cryptic Puzzle: “Diversifying”
… SOLVE THE MOST recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. … – Vienna, VA Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD …
Share Your Take on Harvard’s Social Club Sanctions
… This week , the College announced that it would impose sanctions on all students (matriculating in the fall of 2017 or later) who join unrecognized single-gender social … won’t be allowed to hold leadership positions in any official student organizations or athletic teams, or to …