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A Poet’s March of Ages
… In an era of Twitter and data and apps, what place is there for a 1,600-page encyclopedia devoted to a long-dead … civil wars, the assassination of Julius Caesar, and the rise of Augustus. His works include the pastoral Eclogues as …
Issue: January-February 2014
“A Kind of Justice in the World”
… The first thriller Ian K. Smith ’91 fell in love with was … Show , which he currently co-hosts. “I love the pressure of live TV—you’re so alive; there’s nothing like it,” he … Over the years, Smith has also written a small mountain of books bristling with titles like Shred: The Revolutionary …
Issue: September-October 2020
The Brain’s Light Show
… IN the march-april 2012 issue, Erin O'Donnell writes about a … shows neurons lighting up as they fire . Watch examples of this work, by Loeb associate professor of the natural … averaged over n = 98 action potentials. Note the delayed rise and fall of the action potential in the small …
Issue: March-April 2012
The Trilemma
… If scholars’ intellectual interests emerge from their underlying worries, then economist Dani Rodrik’s lifelong preoccupation with the fate of developing countries grew out of his early life in … program: free trade, privatization of state enterprises, deregulation, and openness to foreign investment. …
Issue: July-August 2019
“The Refusal of Time”
… The command “Leap Before You Look” flashes on the screen above William Kentridge’s head, in the middle of a lecture in which he has walked several laps backwards on the stage of Sanders Theatre, attempted to speak in reverse, acted a …
Frenk Appointed Dean of School of Public Health
… President Drew Faust announced on July 29 the appointment of Julio Frenk as dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), effective in …
The People's Epidemiologists
… In the city of Boston —and everywhere else—wealth equals … you live in Beacon Hill’s Louisburg Square, which sits in the federal census tract with the third highest median … in Suffolk County—$196,210—you’re sitting pretty. Your risk of dying before the age of 65 is about 30 percent less than …
Issue: March-April 2006
Designing for “Changing Climates”
… Tourists visiting the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral in Paris might be seeking a religious or aesthetic experience. But they often leave feeling woozy for other reasons. In the … in Paris; biodiversity in Arles, France; and sea level rise in Antwerp, Belgium. The models, impressive in their …
Calculating the Importance of a Good Teacher
… A study led by professor of economics Raj Chetty found that students who had the best kindergarten teachers had higher incomes in …
Issue: November-December 2010
Harvard Varsity Wins Head of the Charles Regatta
… For the first time in 34 years, the Harvard heavyweight men's crew won the Championship Eight event at the Head of the Charles Regatta, and Boston Globe sportswriter John … wins came in 1969 and 1977.) The Crimson varsity, coming off an extraordinarily successful spring season, dethroned …
Risk without Reward
… 14, 1997, Robert C. Merton (now McArthur University Professor at the Business School) and Myron Scholes were awarded the … and GM will converge. You really don't care if the market rises or falls--or whether Ford stands still and GM drops, …
Echoes of 1969
… In the late 1960s, American society seemed in crisis. The Tet Offensive that began in January 1968 underscored the scale, violence, and increasingly apparent fecklessness of the war in Vietnam. The combat itself had opened ugly …
Issue: March-April 2019
Doug Elmendorf and Karen Dynan: How Much Can the Federal Budget and the Deficit Continue to Grow?
… Even before the coronavirus shifted the U.S. economy into low gear , … massive stimulus in response, federal debt as a percentage of GDP was as high as it had been since the years following … boomers have started to retire, and healthcare costs have risen faster than our economic growth for many years. And …
The Dog Days of Wintersession
… at home in a city where even winter temperatures hovered in the 60s. But on that mid-January morning, Abbas stood bundled up in fleece on the back of a wooden sled, gliding across a frozen lake on the Maine-New Hampshire border, pulled along by a team of huskies. To put it plainly, he says, “It couldn’t be more …
Reports from the “New America”
… The pioneering media site LatinoRebels.com, founded in 2011 … to drunkenness; the ads were pulled. It published video of Puerto Rican independence supporters burning an American … campaign that helped push the doll off the air. Then comprised of Varela and 20 bloggers (mostly his friends), the …
Issue: January-February 2017