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Crimson Cranescape
… This panorama , photographed from the Western Avenue Bridge over the Charles River, gives some sense of Harvard’s current, very extensive construction program. … facility, the Northwest Building, and the reconstruction of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals performing-arts space. The …
Issue: March-April 2006
Faust Tells Congress: Don't Downsize Research
… morning, urging lawmakers not to cut—or even level-fund—the federal budget for scientific research grants at this critical juncture. The leveling off of grant funding through the National Institutes of Health …
Rookie Redux
… I realized that college was over when I opened up the large diploma case to show my family the product of four years’ labor and found a succinct note informing me of an unpaid debt to the University. I was still wearing my …
Issue: September-October 2008
H. Stuart Hughes
… The author of the memoir Gentleman Rebel had much in common with Henry … candidate for president in 1916 and later chief justice of the Supreme Court. Like Adams, he had an opportunity to …
Issue: November-December 2004
Re-Development
… After two years in limbo, the Center for International Development (CID) has at least a temporary new lease on life. The appointment of Kamal professor of public policy Mark R. Rosenzweig, a development …
Issue: November-December 2004
Is Harvard Antisemitic?
… When Hamas terrorists attacked Israel last October 7, they unleashed death and destruction—and also inflamed … on ethnic and religious grounds. Within hours, allegations of such bias came to Harvard. A hasty October 7 student … attacks on the presumed authors, and fierce denunciations of their alleged antisemitism, from within the University …
Life Lessons
… In a room where somber faces are the norm, Steve Cappiello is beaming. The tall, muscular … sounds small, but it was big for me. I never thought a hunk of plastic would change my life as much as it has.” … day laborer from Brockton, Massachusetts, the “hunk of plastic” offers a chance to regain independence, support …
Issue: January-February 2006
Gore Vidal, Lost and Found
… improbable distance in space and time from where it ended. The saga of how the Harvard Review (see sidebar) came to publish a … for 15 years. While earning her Ph.D. at the University of Melbourne, Thompson edited an Australian literary …
Issue: November-December 2005
Brevia
… Harvard Management Company ’s (HMC) annual disclosure of the salary, bonus, and benefit payments to its president and … William A. Strauss ’69, M.P.P.-J.D. ’73, founder of the Capitol Steps comedy group, who was an outspoken …
Issue: March-April 2008
Ecosystem Patterns and Productivity
… The Kenyan dwarf gecko was what first drew Harvard research fellow Robert M. Pringle to the savannas of Kenya, but the termites kept him there. After he and his … the mounds enhanced ecosystem productivity. The presence of termites was already known to increase the number of …
Issue: September-October 2010
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 …
How to Live?
… L ife happens. Decisions are made. Where do the two converge? How do you reconcile your "destiny" with … interested in finding out what their calling is, and most of the things they are drawn to involve other people," says … fellowship. And I got to stay home," she says, happily surprised at her disinclination to move. "I ride my bike to …
Issue: September-October 2002
Theatrical Chiaroscuro
… In 1970, the British theatrical photographer Angus McBean (1904-90) sold Harvard his oeuvre: a collection of 40,000 glass-plate negatives, weighing eight tons, that has become the most-requested archive of visual material in the Harvard Theatre Collection (part …
Issue: March-April 2010
Best Friend Bests Chimp
… A chimpanzee enters a room where food is hidden in one of two opaque containers. A human gazes at the container that hides the food. Reaches for it with … Milo Photograph by Stu Rosner Dog owners may not be surprised to learn that nine of 11 dogs in the same situation …
Issue: March-April 2003
Alumni College
… The Alumni College programs, run by the Harvard Alumni … day-long symposia to two-hour workshops and cover an array of topics. On December 7, Shaking the Family Tree in … Surveillance in the 21st Century features associate professor of pathology Frederic Bieber and associate professor …
Issue: November-December 2006