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Parenting Passages
… “No matter how old you get, you’re still my baby.” How many of us have heard just such a line from a doting parent, or said it ourselves? But even though the underlying bond between parent and child may remain the … shared, and tastes discussed. “A lot of people can be surprised and delighted to find that they can be on more equal …
Issue: July-August 2007
Chapter & Verse
… Rick Stanford asks if anyone can provide the title and author of a poem that begins with the line, “Twenty inglorious … whether any other wordsmith beat him to the crafting of the sentence “A man is truly rich when he has earned the …
Issue: May-June 2006
Harvard Business School’s $1-Billion Campaign
… In the transformed Shad gymnasium, Harvard Business School … evening, April 25: a day that began as another in a series of cool, tardy spring mornings (when the exhortation on a … as healthcare, business and the environment, social enterprises, digital innovation, and competitiveness. ( The …
Harvard Haves and Have-Nots
… Abraham Jack has written an important, passionate analysis of the conditions and challenges facing students from … Students ), and he is an unusually sensitive interviewer of his subjects, eliciting perspectives that are not always …
Conservative Curation
… Amid the triumphant fanfare of the Harvard Tercentenary … women in university life. Tucked into a second-floor room of Byerly Hall, Radcliffe’s newly inaugurated science … not claim to be genius.” The number of women in science had risen dramatically during the early decades of the twentieth …
Issue: January-February 2021
A Dictator's Crippling Debts
… debt. This estimate is rough, and it will be months before the details about Iraq's finances become clear. What is … product is estimated at only $30 billion. The Paris Club of creditor nations has procedures in place to reschedule or write off some of the debt of developing countries on the …
Issue: July-August 2003
A Pioneer in Family Planning
… On display through September 30 at the Center for the History of Medicine are selected items from the papers and effects of John C. Rock ’15, M.D. ’18, and other items related to …
Issue: May-June 2009
Poetry and Politics
… , two days before poet Tom Paulin was scheduled to deliver the annual Morris Gray Lecture, sponsored by the department of English and American language and literature, his reading … regret about the "widespread consternation that has arisen as a result of this invitation, which had been …
Issue: January-February 2003
God, Hollywood, Illness
… life changed in 25 years?”), she is starring in a play at the American Repertory Theater (ART). The one-act … autoimmune disease ulcerative colitis. The play, part of the ART’s new “First Look” initiative, will have seven … research fellow Robert Brustein, the founding director of the ART, saw the Yard production and brought the play to …
A Walk through History, with Justice Ginsburg as Guide
… laws that have disadvantaged women and reinforced notions of men as breadwinners and women as dependents: first by arguing cases before the Supreme Court as an attorney for the American Civil … things began to change. Today, "it's amazing how the laws of that genre are all gone," Justice Ginsburg said last …
Dean Outlines FAS’s Financial Straits
… A standing-room-only crowd of professors filled the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) …
Architectural Upheaval
… M.Arch. ’74, writer and architecture critic, conceived the neologism “Deconstructivism” to describe the changes, … technological, that brought chaos into the very formal work of designing habitable buildings. He has spent more than three decades, on and off, distilling the roots, meanings, and applications of …
Issue: May-June 2022
Remembering Earl Kim
… In the opening moments of the documentary Earl ., the film’s subject is described by … prolific, imaginative composer—whose works are not often heard these days.” This film seeks to change that, …
Quantum Art
… to science," says Eric Heller, Ph.D. '73, noting that chaos theory "would never have taken off without some gorgeous images--like fractals--that came out of computers." Heller, who is professor of chemistry and of …
Alison Simmons
… nighttime childhood car rides, Alison Simmons would take off her glasses and watch the traffic lights turn from discrete shapes into blurry … to the world through clear windowpanes,” says the Wolcott professor of philosophy. “Our bodies are affecting the way the …
Issue: July-August 2024