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Writer, Reformer, Physician-in-Training
… As an undergraduate volunteering at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, Sachin Jain ’02 couldn’t help but notice that many of its guests struggled with health issues. There was, he … and business schools, he recently coedited a book, The Soul of a Doctor , that chronicles the experiences that transform …
Issue: January-February 2007
Are Hospital Pay-for-Performance Programs Failing?
… The logic of pay-for-performance systems is simple enough: pay doctors and hospitals based on how well their patients are doing, rather than on the number of medical services they provide. The payment structure was …
Hoops, Eastern European-style
… Fittingly, Emina and Haso Peljto had their first date at a basketball game. The Yugoslavian couple married and had two children, both of whom play the game—and the younger is a star for … the Ancient Eight as a freshman sensation: she was Rookie of the Year and First Team All-Ivy and outshot the rest of …
Issue: January-February 2003
Rare Odoriferous Plant Blooms at Harvard
… The University's very own Amorphophallus titanum … At 9 a.m . Sunday it was still closed, but several of us noticed it partly opened at 4 p.m ., so we suspect it … glory late that night: someone who works on the third floor of the Biolabs building told me that he could smell it all …
No. Not Yet. Never.
… Primus’s dentist once had him in the chair, mouth wide and jammed with oral hardware, when … pain worse,” said the dentist, drill poised, “than the pain of rejection.” To help Harvard students cope with career rebuffs, the Bureau of Study Counsel hosted a seminar on April 15 called …
Issue: July-August 2009
Jobs Well Done
… four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf during 2019, and confer a … with being a freshman (September-October, page 46)—one of the nicest surprises we’ve ever received over the transom. Lily Scherlis …
Issue: January-February 2020
Hiram Hunn Awards
… Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid. Hunn, a member of the …
Issue: September-October 2007
Harvard Campaign Exceeds $4.3 Billion
… The University announced today that The Harvard Campaign … —launched publicly last September 21, with $2.8 billion of gifts and pledges in hand, toward a goal of $6.5 billion—had realized an additional $1.5 billion of …
Obama's Harvard Health Plan
… That an Obama presidency would save the average American family $2,500 on health-insurance premiums is one of the campaign's chief talking points—but where did that number come from? From three Harvard professors, as the New York Times explains . The number …
Rethinking New Orleans
… In the immediate wake of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush … “do what it takes” to help New Orleans’s residents “rebuild their communities and their lives.” The scale of the human tragedy, combined with mounting evidence of …
Issue: January-February 2006
Shanghai Central
… Photograph by Lillian Wei Undergraduates from the inaugural Harvard China Student Internship Program, at the Shanghai Bund Center Office with staff members John Chen and Lillian Wei (front … Harvard on July 1 opened the newest in an expanding network of international offices, in Shanghai, and is scheduled to …
Issue: September-October 2008
Are We Entering a Second Cold War?
… In a discussion of the Russia-Ukraine War hosted by the Ash Center for … Democratic Governance and Innovation, Arne Westad, Elihu professor of history at Yale University, began with an … that Putin’s actions have triggered—likely to his surprise. “I would never have expected, maybe in my lifetime, to …
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's Kennedy School Class Day address
… Listen to the live audio recording. 1. Kennedy School dean David … height:20] President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, M.P.A. '71, of Liberia, Africa's first elected female president, … School. … President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, M.P.A. '71, of Liberia, Africa's first elected female president, …
Cambridge 02138
… DNA Drawing Your discussion of using gene drives to combat malaria was very even-handed … page 37); but DNA is, and must be, right-handed in the twist of its helix. Alas, on your very clever cover … ground for white privilege, rapes, and misogyny is an enterprise unworthy of Harvard. But the administration was just …
Issue: July-August 2016
Harvard Offers Peace Pipe
… Hunkpapa Sioux artist, and his colleague Wayne Pruse, both of the United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North … summer to examine certain objects in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. They looked at war shields, …
Issue: September-October 2001