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“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 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
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 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 …
Trump Announces Travel Ban for Harvard International Students
… would stop Harvard’s international students from entering the country. The proclamation comes less than a week after … the University, calling Trump’s proclamation “part of a concerted and escalating campaign of retaliation by the … For some students, Trump’s announcement came as a surprise. On May 22, the Department of Homeland Security had …
Nina Pasquini , Lydialyle Gibson
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
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
In Africa, Food vs. Climate?
… known that Africa is a major contributor to rising levels of atmospheric methane, the primary culprit has been a mystery: emissions from the … for the total measured by planes and satellites. This lack of clarity has complicated efforts to reduce emissions of …
Issue: January-February 2025
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, …
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 …
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
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
The Way We Eat Now
… bottled water—came from McDonald's. Spurlock recorded the results on camera for his film Super Size Me, which won … year's Sundance Film Festival. Super Size Me is also a kind of shock/horror movie, as viewers see the 33-year-old … over-responds to the spike in glucose—a more rapid rise than a hunter-gatherer's bloodstream was likely to …
Issue: May-June 2004
On the Tip of Your Tongue
… In the diagram shown here, connections are drawn between words … language. In a test designed to take users to the tip-of-the-tongue state (where they are at the edge of being able to recall a word), people had an easier time …
Issue: May-June 2010