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Summer Reflections
… Despite having spent countless hours on the Internet, there is only one Google search I distinctly … and pressed Enter. I was hoping that a beautiful montage of interesting language programs and exotic backpacking … gloomy Irish day and my debilitating boredom into a world of beautiful colors and accented whispers. No such montage …
Issue: September-October 2012
Comings and Goings
… Comings and Goings The Harvard clubs host numerous social and intellectual … gatherings around the country. Below is a partial list of late fall events. Visit www.haa.harvard.edu for local … club websites, or contact the HAA's clubs and programs office at 617-495-3070. On November 5, the Harvard Club of …
Issue: November-December 2004
Carpenter Center's Craftsman
… Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who assumed the name Le Corbusier, became one of the world’s most influential, and controversial, modern … appears on pages 718 through 727, from Graduate School of Design dean Josep Lluis Sert’s 1958 letter soliciting Le …
Issue: November-December 2008
Harvard at Home
… The University's on-line educational venture, Harvard at Home, offers a number of new vignettes on topics ranging from terrorism and …
Issue: January-February 2002
Degas, Renoir, and More on Display at Dumbarton Oaks
… readers who live in Washington, D.C., or are traveling there this winter: you may want to check out the exhibit of modern French paintings that just opened at Dumbarton … shown together for the first time, come from the collection of Mildred and Robert Bliss, the benefactors of Dumbarton …
More Magical Moments in Store
… "The single most beautiful and pristine moment of my three … occurred on that frozen plaza," Irwin H. Moss, LL.B. '56, of Los Angeles, told this magazine last winter in response …
Issue: January-February 2005
Golden Girl at Full Power
… At the end of every e-mail from Caryn Davies '05 is a quotation … Rilke: "You see, I want a lot./Perhaps I want everything:/the darkness that comes with every infinite fall/ and the shivering blaze of every step up." Davies, the six-foot, four-inch dynamo at …
Issue: July-August 2003
Corporation Credentials
… The newest member of Harvard’s senior governing board, … page 69), brings several new perspectives to the Corporation. That is not surprising: her title at … Georgetown University Law Center—Carmack Waterhouse professor of law, medicine, ethics, and public …
Issue: March-April 2006
Artful Engineering
… single undergraduate course last fall, students tackled all of the following: engineering nanofood particles to combat childhood obesity; revising …
Issue: May-June 2007
Deval Patrick and Drew Faust Address Harvard Commencement
… The Afternoon Exercises of Harvard Commencement (this 364th edition, and its predecessors) are officially the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). …
Brevia
… Bicontinental Tree His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke about “Educating the Heart” to a … Church on April 30. A central theme was the Buddhist virtue of compassion, even for those considered “your so-called … the Harvard Divinity School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Dalai Lama joined those schools’ deans, …
Issue: July-August 2009
Dark Beauty
… In the new film Black Swan, Natalie Portman ’03 plays Nina, a … readily takes to the white swan, but must endure a kind of personal purgatory to claim the dark side of both the ballet role and her personality. Lily (Mila …
Issue: January-February 2011
School for Scholars
… continuing-education course on higher education, presidents of seven universities in the People's Republic of China came to Cambridge to learn about the research …
Better Together
… with edgy risk-taking. At legendary venues such as the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, plus newer destinations such as SoWa … Open Market, it’s possible to enjoy traditional expressions of the form—as well as imaginative collaborations with …
Issue: September-October 2019
Bunk, in Faded Gingham
… Harvard's arrogance, and its just rewards, are the topics of the following story, which has circulated on … her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an …
Issue: September-October 2001