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President Obama Urges Criminal-Justice Reform in Harvard Law Review
… Barely two weeks remaining before he’s due to leave office, President Barack Obama, J.D. ’91, has written an emotional plea for criminal-justice reform in the January 2017 edition of the Harvard Law Review , arguing … and local level, the total U.S. budget for incarceration rises to a staggering $81 billion, enough to fund …
Not Our Year
… In the middle of the second quarter of the 134th playing of The Game, heavily …
Issue: January-February 2018
FAS Reduces Deficit, but Gap Remains “Huge”
… At the regularly scheduled meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on February 2, Dean Michael D. …
A New Radcliffe Room
… The College Club of Boston, 117 years old, calls itself the oldest such women’s club in America. Radcliffe was … and companionship’ while advancing their knowledge of literature, public affairs, history and the arts” (see …
Issue: May-June 2008
Brevia: Harvard News in Brief
… by Curtis Dahl Victor Clay has been appointed chief of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), effective … Angeles County sheriff’s department, Clay served as chief of campus safety at Occidental College and then chief of …
Issue: July-August 2021
Honors in Full
… Award winners were publicly recognized on October 28, at the fall meeting of HAA directors. The following citations were read to thank … as volunteers. Richard H. Harris '37. Loyal leader of the Harvard Clubs of Akron and Cleveland, you have …
Jolson & Company
… Their physical resemblance is striking. Yet deeper ties … '68. Both men are actors and singers; both are descendants of Orthodox Jews; Jolson's father and Hanan's grandfather … were cantors—singers who lead the musical part of the service in synagogues. Both their families emigrated …
Issue: September-October 2002
Engineering Dean to Step Down
… Venkatesh Narayanamurti, the dean of Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), will step down …
Chapter & Verse
… story about a destitute family who own a Stradivarius. When the son tries to sell the violin, the pawnbroker tells him, … Constance Martin asks for the author, title, and/or origin of a song containing the lines, “You are my Rose of Mexico,/ The one I loved so long ago….” They come from a …
Issue: September-October 2009
Football: Harvard 35, Bucknell 7
… But bringing down Juszczyk is like halting a runaway train. The senior tight end broke free, stiff-armed one more … the end zone, completing the Crimson’s longest pass play of the season. The play covered 59 yards and climaxed a … Saturday evening. Juszczyk’s catch-and-run was emblematic of a big-play Crimson offense that could set new scoring …
Paul Farmer To Give Kennedy School Commencement Address
… Physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer will be the Harvard Kennedy School Commencement speaker on May 25. Currently the Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard, Farmer is a co-founder of Partners in Health, a nonprofit that brings Western …
Literary Gardening
… settings such as ponds or meadows or woodlands—very unlike the geometric, clipped formality of French or Italian gardens. “I must congratulate you—you’ve built an English garden outside of England,” observed an elderly British visitor a few years …
Issue: July-August 2013
Fortune Cookie Mystery
… In an article in the New York Times, Jennifer 8. Lee ’99, a former Ledecky … at this magazine, explores research on the provenance of the fortune cookie. Apparently this staple of Chinese restaurants actually originated in Japan. Who …
Football 2022: Harvard 37-Penn 14
… In 1895 the University of Pennsylvania dedicated Franklin Field. (Just the grounds; the edifice came later.) That same year … But even Wells could not have envisioned the out-of-this-world show put on this past Saturday in the first …
Japan's No-Aerobics
… Organization study, coauthored by Christopher Murray, professor of international health economics, ranked the Japanese as the world's healthiest people. They have …