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Compensation Controversy, Continued
… In light of continued strong investment returns (see " Endowment … Gains: Last Hurrah? " November-December 2004, page 56), the Harvard Management Company (HMC) investment … about rewards for service within a nonprofit enterprise (see "' Extraordinary' Bonuses ," March-April 2004, …
Issue: March-April 2005
A Startling Achievement in Regenerative Medicine
… Douglas Melton, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, has figured out how to transform one type of cell in a living animal into another, using a new process …
Sarah Wyman Whitman
… much a public personality, she was a painter, a designer of book covers and stained glass, an interior decorator, an author, poet, teacher. The notes she wrote with a quill pen, her style of dress—ostrich feathers, beaver bonnets, exuberant shades …
Issue: January-February 2008
Extracurriculars
… A full slate of events can be found throughout the University this season, ranging from South African … ; 617-495-9400/9422 Opening February 12 • Crises of Representation in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna presents …
Issue: January-February 2005
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, …
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
President-elect Claudine Gay Announces Interim Deans
… -elect Claudine Gay was chosen in December to become the University’s next president, she inherited a search to … deanships. Divinity School dean David Hempton , School of Public Health dean Michelle Williams , and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences dean Frances Doyle had …
Harvard Scientists Create First Disease-Specific Human Stem Cell Lines
… Two teams of researchers within the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) announced in the last … they used to achieve this, pioneered by Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in 2006, employs viruses to reset adult …
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
Fiction for Mortal Stakes
… The fatwa that Iran issued in response to Salman Rushdie’s … Andrew Wylie, directly . “Tehran was sending out teams of people to kill--Rushdie, primarily, but also those associated with him,” Wylie relates. “There was lots of information coming in at warp speed. Visiting Rushdie was …
Issue: July-August 2010
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
Cryptic Puzzle: “Dean”
… Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution You … Santa Monica, CA Bob Lundegaard – Minneapolis, MN Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico Brian McCrady – … – Manhattan, KS Segrid O'Gore – Seattle, WA Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD …
A First-Gen First
… Andrea Esposito found herself “so bored and unhappy with the limited life roles my culture and background offered that I was desperate to leave school and run away … and insular part of New York City, whose population is comprised of predominantly blue-collar city workers. The school …
An Interfaith Answer to Campus Tensions
… discussion on religious pluralism last Friday afternoon at the Harvard Divinity School, during which the campus divides … over Israel-Palestine were at times front and center. Part of a daylong event commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of … the kinds of painful and difficult disputes that have arisen on campus during this past school year. The case …
Cryptic Puzzle: “Jester”
… Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution “Jester” … – Alexandria, VA Eliot Kieval '84 – New York, NY Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico Brian McCrady – … O'Gore – Seattle, WA Itai Pines – Portland, OR Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY Huw Powell – Lee, NH Charlie Pritzlaff – …